In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants` kindness, he promised to return and build a school. "Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103426-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America`s frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man`s life with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.
These classic stories have been combined with beautiful new illustrations to bring the magic of Ladybird Tales to a new generation. Children have always loved these stories, and reading them together is an experience to treasure. Retold by Vera Southgate.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-1420-2
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
"The New Folger is an edition that all serious Shakespeare students will want to read and accumulate, and one that many teachers of Shakespeare will surely judge the best available." The Shakespeare Newsletter The havoc wrought on lovers by magic in "A Midsummer Night`s Dream" the furious battle of the sexes waged in "The Taming of the Shrew" and a stranded woman finding her way in a man`s world in "Twelfth Night" - this collection of three of Shakespeare`s greatest comedies is based on the acclaimed individual Folger editions of the plays. The present volume offers accurate texts in modern spelling, full explanatory notes, and scene-by-scene action summaries.
Джером Клапка Джером - английский писатель, автор повестей, рассказов и одни пьесы. Герои этой книги, колесящие по горам Шварцвальда, без сомнения, хорошо знакомы всем: это над их необычными приключениями во время путешествия по Темзе добродушно смеялись целые поколения читателей. Неповторимый, ироничный юмор Джерома, а также подготовленные для удобства читателей словарик, комментарии, примечания и...
ISBN: 978-5-9925-0019-6
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: август 2014
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Three stories to make you think, set in the near future, 100 years and 1500 years from now. The end of spam - a curse or a blessing? Are people robots? What happens to the last brain in the world?
ISBN: 978-0-521-69377-6
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious, acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee`s frank dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity portrays aging without sentimentality. His scenes are charged with wit, pain, and laughter, and his observations tell us about forgiveness, reconciliation, and our own fates. But it is his probing portrait of the three women that reveals Albee`s genius. Separate characters on stage in the first act, yet actually the same "everywoman" at different ages in the second act, these "tall women" lay bare the truths of our lives—how...
Based on the classic fairy tale. The three billy goats Gruff wants to cross the bridge to reach the grass on the other side, but first they have to get past the hungry troll! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird`s best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all...
A blinding snowstorm - and a homicidal maniac - traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple set-up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which, in turn, would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases the intimtable Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as the champion deceiver of our time.
ISBN: 978-0-312-97976-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mother Pig has had enough of her three horrid little pigs. So she packs their bags and sends them on their way. The first two little pigs build their houses by stealing straw and pinching twigs. The third little pig is so lazy, he moves into a hen house! What horrid little pigs they are! Will the big, friendly wolf help them see the error of their ways?
Three Years is Anton Chekhov`s heartfelt attempt to create a `novel of Moscow life`. In it, he paints a poignant portrait of the struggles and frustrations that go hand in hand with human relationships. Away from his native Moscow to care for his ailing sister, Laptev falls instantly in love with Yulia Sergeyevna, the daughter of the local doctor. She in turn feels nothing for him, but convinces herself it would be doing him a gross disservice to refuse his proposal. So begins the unequal marriage between the two, a marriage that will bring a bitter and desperate sorrow to them both. Yet as the years go by, and as they face and overcome tragedy together, they learn to value each other in new ways - and so restore their faith in the...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. His novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over and the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. Jerome`s characters proved to be so popular that he brought them back for an equally picaresque bicycle tour of Germany, an adventure recorded in Three Men on the Bummel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07973-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
