Ewetopia the sheep thinks she has finally hit upon the costume that will get her noticed at the Woolyones Costume Ball: she`ll come dressed as a wolf. Unfortunately, this doesn`t earn her any points with the rest of the sheep, who find such a thing in rather poor taste. And yet, in this topsy-turvy fairytale for readers 6 to 8, Ewetopia does find a dance partner in a tall, attractive sheep at the ball - but why would a sheep come dressed as a sheep? And why does he keep calling her "Mom?"
As this absorbing saga of a modern English family opens, 64-year-old Penelope Keeling is returning to her country house following a heart attack, and her three adult children have varying reactions to the news. The narrative is actually a series of deftly interwoven vignettes that shift back and forth in time; each chapter centers on one of the principal players in the family`s history. The unifying thread is an oil painting entitled "The Shell Seekers," done by Penelope`s father. Pilcher`s characters are well-drawn, real, and engrossing people. A thoroughly charming book for most fiction collections.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96132-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The natural beauty of seashells has enchanted cultures around the world since time immemorial. The "recreation of the eye and mind" inspired by them has been celebrated in literature and throughout humanist circles across Europe since antiquity: in his De oratore, the classical scholar Cicero extolled the value of the leisure and friendship cultivated by two friends who spent their leisurely hours collecting shells. These wonderful marine forms - "the artifice of nature" - were considered capable of elevating the spirit and stimulating the senses, as well as refining the taste and creativity of artists. Throughout history, their innumerable shapes, crenulations, and vast variety of colors and patterns have inspired painters and jewelers,...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1111-7
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave - 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire.
ISBN: 978-0-09-964251-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
No characters in English literature since those in the great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. They have indeed been elevated above the level of fiction and into the realm of mythology where the learned and the simple meet on an equal footing. The present selection draws the best stories from the several Sherlock Holmes volumes, including one of the longer books, "The Sign of Four", in its logical place among the other chosen tales: "Silver Blaze", "The Speckled Band", "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Naval Treaty", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Greek Interpreter", "The Red-Headed League", "The Empty House", "The Missing Three-Quarter", and "His Last Bow"....
ISBN: 978-0-19-953697-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero - a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!
ISBN: 0-553-21241-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Classic / British English Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy`s son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, joins him and tells the story. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2582-8
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories. Not only does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s brilliant detective investigate a fascinating series of crimes and misdemeanours in "The Memoirs", but we also learn about Holmes`s early days as a sleuth-hound and encounter the detective`s brilliant brother, Mycroft, who is a member of the Diogenes Club, one of the strangest establishments in London. And, of course, in "The Final Problem" Holmes comes face to face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
A gripping historical suspense novel, set in the present day and Victorian London, centering upon the holy grail of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts - the author´s famed missing diary. In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes - adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines - anticipating the detective´s next adventure - only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off.
This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope`s novel "The Prisoner of Zenda". Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers from a serious illness. But Rassendyll has mysteriously disappeared. In desperation, Sapt consults Sherlock Holmes who, with his faithful companion Watson, travels to the Kingdom of Ruritania in an effort to thwart the plans of the scheming Rupert of Hentzau in his bid for the throne. "Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair" is a wonderful blend of...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-548-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Сборник содержит более ста логических задач ("головоломок"), в которых принимают участие любимцы детей и взрослых, персонажи популярных детективных произведений английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла - Шерлок Холмс, доктор Ватсон и др.
ISBN: 5-7836-0498-4
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Since his first appearance in "Beeton’s Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero - a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume II begins with "The Hound of the Baskervilles", a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. "The Valley of Fear" matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded...
ISBN: 0-553-21242-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
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: 978885300-950-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
