Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about the landlady`s house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? These compelling tales are a perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius.
ISBN: 978-0-14-240087-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
This is a romantic story of mistaken identity. On a wet day, the purchase of an umbrella leads to a romantic chance encounter. This is an starter-level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette. It is raining. The sky is grey. Carla goes to the market. She looks at the umbrellas. She likes a red umbrella. It`s very smart. It costs ten dollars....
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7798-9
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Dearth, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist, a feminist and a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal, Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and, like one of the...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-3209-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Un amour de Swann est la deuxieme partie du roman Du cote de chez Swann, le premier tome d`A la recherche du temps perdu. Se detachant de la narration a la premiere personne et de lintrigue principale car ayant pour personnage principal Charles Swann, Un amour de Swann est aussi publie comme un roman qui peut etre lu independamment du reste de l`ceuvre. En 1950, ce roman fut inclus dans la liste du Grand prix des Meilleurs romans du demi-siecle.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00550-5
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubbles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in another language. There is a quiz at the end of each story to help comprehension and revise vocabulary.
ISBN: 978-1-905710-99-7
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Guy Brouard, richissime notable de l`île de Guernesey, est retrouvé mort sur la plage, une pierre polie enfoncée dans la gorge! Dernière personne aperçue aux côtés de la victime, China River, jeune Américaine de passage, présente, pour la police locale, toutes les caractéristiques de la coupable idéale. Ce qui n`est pas de l`avis de son amie d`enfance, la sémillante Deborah qui, accompagnée de son époux, l`expert judiciaire Simon Saint James, va tout mettre en oeuvre pour l`innocenter. Au risque de se brûler les ailes. Car le défunt sexagénaire n`avait absolument rien d`un bon Samaritain: séducteur compulsif et drôle d`entrepreneur, il venait...
ISBN: 978-2-266-20666-2
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Il tout devient féérique à l`approche de Noël! Les jeunes lecteurs prendront plaisir à appuyer sur les boutons pour entendre toutes les mélodies de Noël qui accompagnent l`histoire.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-0402-3
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: январь 2013
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubbles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in another language. There is a quiz at the end of each story to help comprehension and revise vocabulary.
ISBN: 978-1-905710-98-0
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives forged in the wake of are stories in which deeply sympathetic characters reach pivotal moments in their frayed relationships and are forced to navigate their way in unfamiliar landscapes. In the title story the death of a mother leaves a space neither daughter nor husband knows how to fill. In `Only Goodness` a younger brother`s spiralling alcoholism threatens to destroy his loyal sister`s family. And in a trio of linked stories we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one memorable winter, share a house in suburban Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until they...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9979-1
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011
"The Unadulterated Cat" is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they`ve been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea or appear on Christmas or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms
A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century `Being`. From the author of "Testaments Betrayed".
ISBN: 978-0-571-20083-2
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle and confronts rejection; and Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss, not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing
ISBN: 978-0-349-12114-7
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Revisiting the paranormal realms they`ve made famous in their popular fiction, "New York Times" - bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake - plus YA author Melissa Marr with her first adult work - unleash their full arsenal of dark talents.
May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her "Uncanny Stories" (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle. Specially included in this volume is "The Intercessor" (1911), Sinclair`s powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Brontes.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-492-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Самая знаменитая книга, описывающая рабство, была настолько злободневной на момент своего выхода, что спровоцировала социальные волнения, через десять лет вылившиеся в Гражданскую войну. "Хижина дяди Тома" наделала шуму на Севере Америки, была запрещена к изданию на Юге, а в итоге стала абсолютным бестселлером XIX века. Но и сегодня эта мелодраматичная история покоряет сердца читателей во всём мире....
ISBN: 978-5-521-05505-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
I thought I saw a human face, about the most terrible my fancy could have called up, looking fixedly into the room. The face gazed towards the bed, and in the imperfect light looked like a livid mask, with chalky eyes’. Master of the ghost story genre James commented that the, ‘final terrific murder-scene and escape can hardly be forgotten’ by those who have read "Uncle Silas". Neither does the opening disappoint. As the November winds wail in ivied chimneys we are drawn into a Victorian Gothic atmosphere of menacing, sombre gloom and ebony shadows. Sheridan Le Fanu leaves us in no doubt that we are in for a feast of exciting drama, luring us into the intensely claustrophobic world of the nineteenth century sensational novel. Le...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-171-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Presents the legends, songs, and sayings of Uncle Remus, following the text of the first edition of Joel Chandler Harris` attempt to record traditional black stories of his time.
Uncle Fred is one of the hottest earls that ever donned a coronet. Or as he crisply said, `There are no limits, literally none, to what I can achieve in the springtime.` Even so, his gifts are stretched to the limit when he is urged by Lord Emsworth to save his prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, from the enforced slimming cure of the haughty Duke of Dunstable. Pongo Twistleton knows his debonair but wild uncle shouldn`t really be allowed at large - especially when disguised as a brain surgeon. He fears the worst. And his fears are amply justified.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951384-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel "Uncle Tom`s Cabin", which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. It featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08291-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2019
While his mother and father are away, a little elephant goes to visit his uncle. And what a time they have Uncle Elephant makes wishes come true, tells amazing stories, and trumpets the dawn. The visit is perfect, except for one thing-it ends much too soon.
Uncle Tom`s Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe’s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only `repentance, justice and mercy` will prevent the onset of `the wrath of Almighty God!`.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-402-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
