This is an Elementary Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - 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. Three strange and frightening short stories by the author of Dracula: The Judge`s House; The Iron Maiden; The Return of Abel Behena; Extra grammar and vocabulary exercises; Audio CD/download available for this title. Retold by John Davey.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7664-7
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including "Two Wrongs" and an ironic "The Night of Chancellorsville" in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07615-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This Book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare`s greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare`s most famous characters magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more. This is a wonderful first step on the journey into the world of Shakespeare.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6522-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. В сборник Герберта Уэллса «Рассказы о пространстве и времени» вошли рассказы на английском...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49806-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Tales of the Alhambra" is a collection of essays, sketches and stories. The Alhambra is a palace located in Granada, in the south of Spain. The book consists of a collection of enchanting Spanish and Moorish legends, folktales, and myths about the palace and its surroundings, along with some more traditional travel narratives and observational essays about the country and its customs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08252-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Classic / British English Hans Andersen wrote many stories, and these are some of the best. We meet a very, very small child, a bird with a beautiful voice, a mermaid with legs, an ugly duckling with no friends - and an emperor with some very strange new clothes. These stories teach us lessons for life. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7818-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2012
INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. A collection of topics to analyse and discuss Selected by Antonella Mignani A selection of twelve thematically-paired stories by a wide range of authors including Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, Kate Chopin, Maeve...
ISBN: 978-8-877-54936-5
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Tales of Hearsay is a posthumous collection of four stories, published in 1911, the year after Conrad died, including The Tale, considered to be the one of his best short stories. Tales of Unrest is the collection of short stories where a reader will find many of Conrad\'s most frequently explored themes: isolation, distinctions between East and West, between colonial and native, a discernment and critique of civilization.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07641-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
Brand new edition of this collection of classic fairy tales from the wizarding world - an irresistible read for all Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling`s original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Published in aid of Lumos (wearelumos.org), an international children`s charity founded by J.K. Rowling.The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the fifteenth century. There are five tales in all: `The Tale of the Three Brothers` Harry Potter...
ISBN: 9781408883099
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: апрель 2017
This book is a part of the Tales from Acorn Wood series. Deep in the heart of Acorn Wood, bear is writing letters to his friends. Lift the flaps and join frog, squirrel and mole for bear`s special surprise! Other books in the Acorn Wood series include: Fox`s Socks; Hide-and-Seek Pig; and, Rabbit`s Nap.
ISBN: 978-0-333-96624-2
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer`s art - a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.
The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun. Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance`s classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel`s Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to
ISBN: 978-1-85798-994-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own. But soon that journey turns out to be more of a challenge than anyone could have imagined as the train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and a mysterious woman in white helps the boy while away the hours by telling him stories - stories with a difference.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0274-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: март 2011
This Book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare’s most famous characters – magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more. This is a wonderful first step on the journey into the world of Shakespeare.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8017-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guides - or get their money back. Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplan`s SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam. Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout. Each...
ISBN: 978-1-60714-866-1
Издательство:
Kaplan Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound both to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle`s vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Вlue John Gap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat and The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in "Lot 249". Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers. Издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 1-8402-2406-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book serves as the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as "The Horror of the Heights," "The New Catacomb" and "The Case of Lady Sannox."
ISBN: 978-5-521-07156-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Everyone is friends in Acorn Wood!Tales from Acorn Wood is a bestselling preschool series by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of the modern classic, The Gruffalo.Friends is a delightful introduction to the world of Acorn Wood. Fox and Mouse play dress up, Squirrel`s friends help with chores, Pig plays hide and seek with Hen, Bear`s friends say "Happy Birthday", and Rabbit`s friends sing her to sleep.A first book about friendship based on the bestselling lift-the-flap toddler books: Postman Bear, Fox`s Socks, Rabbit`s Nap and Hide-and-Seek Pig.
This book is a part of the Tales from Acorn Wood series. Deep in the heart of Acorn Wood, pig and hen are playing hide-and-seek. Lift the flaps and help pig find out where hen is hiding! Other books in the Acorn Wood series include: Fox`s Socks, Rabbit`s Nap; and, Postman Bear.
ISBN: 978-0-333-96625-9
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Selected and with an introduction by David Stuart Davies, this gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle`s vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Blue John Cap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat" and "The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in "Lot 249". Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-078-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Mystery" is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author`s ability to immerse and surprise. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08100-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume includes a collection of entertaining short stories like "The Green Flag", "The Crime of the Brigadier", "The Lord of Chateau Noir", "A Shadow Before" and others. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08070-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
