The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00322-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. "The Lost Girl" is a novel, first published in 1920 and awarded with James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. It tells the story of Alvina Houghton and her father James Houghton who, in an attempt to keep his business afloat, buys a theater and hires actors. Alvina falls in love with one of them and flies with him to Naples, leaving all her former life behind.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07204-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Jason has a problem. He doesn`t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she`s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they`re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he`s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn`t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp...
ISBN: 978-0-14-132549-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase compreh
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8224-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The first book in a brand new series, "The Last Kingdom" is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtreds fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtreds growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfreds...
ISBN: 0-00-721801-X
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Lurking Fear and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Lurking Fear," "The Shunned House," "The Colour." These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00252-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction. The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latters service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa. Haggard travelled to southern Africa in 1875 and remained in the country for six years, during which time he served as Master of the High Court of the Transvaal and an adjutant of the Pretoria Horse. Rider Haggard`s time in Africa proved inspirational for him, and while still in Natal he wrote two articles for The Gentleman`s Magazine describing his experiences.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06637-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Знаковый фантастический роман Артура Конан Дойла, породивший множество экранизаций. В книге описываются приключения британской экспедиции в Южной Америке. Профессор Джордж Челленджер мечтает доказать существование доисторических животных в современном мире. На скалистом недоступном плато экспедиция обнаруживает "затерянный мир" - район, заселённый динозаврами, человекообразными обезьянами и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05535-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
