Белый Клык - полусобака-полуволк - вырос в дикой северной природе, но вскоре им завладевает не знающий жалости индеец Серый Бобр. Белый Клык, знакомый только со злобой человека и жестокостью природы, превращается в свирепое животное. Пока его не спасает доброта.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03440-2 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
Life among men is difficult for a wolf-dog. But life in the wild is even harder. White Fang has a choice to make. Will it be the right one?
ISBN: 9781844668427 Издательство: Express Publishing Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North - kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang`s life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?
ISBN: 978-5-521-06229-4 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
Jealousies, distrust, and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing. As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a...
ISBN: 978-0-330-49069-6 Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9780007558124 Дата выхода: январь 2019
A set of five haunting, enchanting tales from the master storyteller behind War Horse Since the beginning of time, strange and mysterious things have happened here. There are stories from the past of mermaids and spriggans and knockers and witches. The stories in this book however do not come from the past. They have all happened in my lifetime. At the furthest edge of Britain, where the sea gently washes over the land and myths brush against reality, lies Zennor. Since the beginning of time strange and mysterious things have happened there, and these stories highlight all the most haunting and enchanting events. Once a year, on a misty fall night, there is a pounding of hoof beats as a great white horse comes thundering over the moor in...
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5675-9 Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Classic / American English (Available February 2008) White Fang is a wolf from the mountains of Canada. His life is hard but he is happy in his world. Then he is taken to the world of men. There he learns to fight and to kill. White Fang knows nothing about love. But one day he meets Scott
ISBN: 978-1-4058-5538-9 Издательство: Longman Group UK Limited Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception of Arthur Bryant and John May that is, for the eccentric detectives who run London’s strangest crime division are stranded on a desolate snowbound road somewhere in the West Country on their way to a spiritualists` convention. As the snows worsen, Bryant & May attempt to solve the crime long distance. And their situation is about to get much. much worse. Unknown to the elderly detectives, an obsessed killer has travelled from the Riviera to Dartmoor, and is stalking the stranded vehicles, searching for one particular victim and edging ever...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81798-0 Издательство: Bantam Дата выхода: июль 2011
White Cat introduces Holly Black`s new world! Cassel has always known he killed Lila, but now the pieces are starting not to fit.
ISBN: 978-1-4169-6397-4 Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-02673-5 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
Kick-ass bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan has crossed forbidden lines, taken demonic hits, and still stands. But the death of her lover struck her harder than she ever thought possible. She won`t rest until his murder is and avenged. But a new predator is moving to the apex of the Inderlander food chain—and now Rachel`s past is coming back to haunt her. Literally.
ISBN: 978-0-06-113802-7 Издательство: HarperCollins Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. White Vang is a story of a part dog and part wolf, the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North - kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang`s life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?
ISBN: 978-5-521-08149-3 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
ISBN: 9789669231468 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master."The White Tiger" presents a raw and unromanticised...
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3769-7 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: июль 2011
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. Повесть "Белый клык" - одно из самых узнаваемых произведений Джека Лондона. Нет ни одного читателя, которого бы оставила равнодушным удивительная и невероятная история волка, живущего среди индейцев… Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05362-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2017
ISBN: 9781784877514 Издательство: Vintage Classics Дата выхода: январь 2021
Philippa Gregory, the queen of royal fiction ( USA Today ) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-6369-3 Дата выхода: май 2012
ISBN: 0140621148 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: апрель 2002
From the author of "Crime and Punishment" comes this remarkable collection of short fiction. A selection often compelling tales, steeped in Dostoyevsky`s characteristic themes of spiritual torment and psychological struggle, evoke life in Czarist Russia. Featured stories include "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "Bobok," "An Honest Thief," "An Unpleasant Predicament," "Another Man`s Wife," "The Peasant Marey," "The Crocodile," "A Faint Heart," "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding," and the title work. Fyodor Dostoyevsky created powerful depictions of the human condition that led to significant developments in twentieth-century thought, including psychoanalysis and existentialism. His influence resonates in the works of latter-day authors such...
ISBN: 978-0-486-46948-5 Дата выхода: август 2011
Betrayed and sold to Northern traders, Buck is forced to pull a sledge through the frozen Yukon. He and the other dogs on the team are brutalized and beaten until they are almost dead, but Buck is saved from cruelty by John Thornton, in whose care he learns to be loved. Buck has now learnt survival and self-preservation so that when he is free to return to the wild he is feared, admired and truly fit for leadership. Jack London`s masterpiece explores the mythical kingdom of the primeval wolf with unflinching clarity of vision. "White Fang", the companion novel to "The Call of the Wild", tells of the offspring of an Indian wolf-dog and a wolf. The greatest fighter of them all, White Fang responds to savagery with savagery. Until he has...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062403-8 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9780241619780 Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 978885300-399-7 Издательство: CIDEB Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781509804269 Издательство: Macmillan Дата выхода: январь 2019
Young children just love things that go, and here is a book they will spend hours pushing along the floor as well as reading! When you open the book to read, the clever wheel mechanism at the top of the page lets you choose the right driver for the emergency vehicle on each spread. Then close the book and push it along on its four moving wheels just like a toy.
ISBN: 978-0-230-75054-8 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Young children just love things that go, and here is a book they will spend hours pushing along the floor as well as reading! When you open the book to read, the clever wheel mechanism at the top of the page lets you choose the right driver for the vehicle on each spread. Then close the book and push it along on its four moving wheels just like a toy!
ISBN: 978-0-230-75053-1 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
