This is a new title in Young Reading Series Three, which is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. It describes the life of the Bard, from his childhood in Stratford-Upon-Avon to his career as a playwright and performer and the influence which his great works continue to hold today. It is illustrated by Christina Uzner, illustrator of Usborne Young Reading Series Three Leonardo Da Vinci, alongside photography of real-life locations connected to Shakespeare. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It is beautifully produced hardback with ribbon marker.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9002-2
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This edition of Shakespeare`s Complete Works contains all the plays and poems. The plays are arranged in the chronological order of their composition rather than gathered into comedies, histories and tragedies, the traditional method dating from the first folio; the volume also contains a sketch of Shakespeare`s life, a biography of Sir John Gilbert, and an extensive glossary. The book is bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, top edge gilt with a gold-blocked jacket, and has been completely reset. It is illustrated throughout with Sir John Gilbert`s superb woodcuts. As the Magazine of Art wrote when the edition was first published, `It is a virtue of Gilbert`s achievements in black and white that he takes his...
ISBN: 978-1-907360-46-6
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe`s beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. Stuck in a job he doesn`t want - but can`t afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as...
ISBN: 978-0-09-949312-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"His wit is devastating, his eye for detail exacting, his prose polished, serpentine, elegant and as savvy and savage as Evelyn as dazzlingly inventive and bizarrely original as ". "Detroit News" "A farce touching fingers with a rich comic sublime orgiastic satire". "Guardian" "Sharpe is the funniest novelist currently I sat curled up with laughter". "Time Out"
ISBN: 0-09-946649-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe`s indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician`s wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain`s medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947413-5
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry`s wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND.
ISBN: 0-09-943548-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in `The Pig in a Poke` with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he`s guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt`s talent for making new enemies. What...
ISBN: 0-09-946648-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.` A timeless and celebrated children`s classic, Grahame`s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn - whether it`s gipsy caravans, Rat`s love for the river, or Toads passion for motorcars, the loveable friends and their escapades continue to delight children and adults alike.
ISBN: 978-0-00-790227-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.
ISBN: 1-85326-017-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Seven titles in the popular "Young Reading" series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. "The Young Reading" series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
- The classic story retold for children growing in reading confidence. - Mole, Ratty, Badger and the infamous Mr Toad love nothing more than messing around on the river. But when Mr Toad develops an obsession with motor vehicles, will his friends be able to help before he loses everything? - Featuring the charming illustrations of Mauro Evangelista. - Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8440-3
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
For readers new to The Dark Tower, "The Wind Through the Keyhole" is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World`s last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) Roland...
The Wind in the Willows (1908) is a book for those `who keep the spirit of youth alive in them`. So wrote Kenneth Grahame of his timeless tale of Toad, Mole, Badger, and Rat in their beautiful and benevolently ordered world. But it is also a world under siege, threatened by dark and unnamed forces, and defended by the mysterious Piper at the Gates of Dawn. The Wind in the Willows has achieved an enduring place in our literature: it succeeds at Top page once in arousing our anxieties and in calming them by giving perfect shape to our desire for peace and escape.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955648-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mole and Rat have a pleasant life by the river, where they talk, boat and wile away the days. The wise and private Mr Badger lives sedately in the Wild Woods, content in his solitude. Then there`s Mr Toad - wealthy, impulsive and utterly obsessed with motor cars, he`s always getting into scrapes and can`t survive without the help of his friends.One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame remains a timeless tale of camaraderie, loyalty and bravery more than a hundred years after its first publication.With sixteen gorgeous colour illustrations by the celebrated Arthur Rackham, and an afterword by author David Stuart Davies.
This is the story of four friends Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger. Rat loves the river. Mole is often afraid. Badger likes to stay at home. But Toad is always looking for new adventures and some of his ideas are dangerous.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7884-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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: 9788853004710
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame`s book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection.
ISBN: 9781853260179
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative which includes the extraordinary story of his crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival. `Self-discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle`, writes Saint-Exupery. In this book, he explores the transcendent perceptions that arise when life is tested to its limits. Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118319-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Toru Okada`s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada`s vague, blameless life are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
She`s on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events-if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world`s most proficient and mysterious assassin, and plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping, and terror. Here, only two people-both powerfully attractive and ultimately enigmatic men-can offer her help. And one of them wants to kill her. Формат: 10,5 cм x 17 cм.
ISBN: 0-446-35010-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Over the years, shopping has grown from the traditional need to supply and provide subsistence into an everyday habit associated with leisure, social activity, and pleasure. Consequently, designing store windows has become an art form in itself. These settings, whose final objective is always to seduce the possible consumer, are laid out according to different concepts of color, light, materials and disposition. This book shows how successful store windows have become an important mediator between goods and the consumer. The volume includes windows designed for legendary, world–famous brands the likes of Versace, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Prada, as well as the designs from top professionals such as Simon Doonan for...
ISBN: 978-0-06-089348-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011