Jules Verne.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
One night, four men and a boy, who are prisoners of war, escape in a hot air balloon. They travel for five days in a dangerous storm and then crash on a very strange island. During their adventures on the island, they realise that someone is watching and helping them. Who is this unknown person? And will they ever escape from the Mysterious Island?
ISBN: 9781845588649
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne`s awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07768-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Quentin Coldwater`s life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin`s name leads him down a very different path to any he`d ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it`s a world that seems to answer all Quentin`s desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it`s finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected ...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953916-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the `Sensation Novel` as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in Victorian London. Drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder are among the themes and motifs A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens`s usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens`s...
ISBN: 1-85326-729-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Это сказка о бедной девочке и её маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Горшочек варит кашу, стоит только произнести волшебные слова. Но как же его остановить? Помимо увлекательной сказки, книга содержит занимательные упражнения и словарик, в котором собраны все новые слова с транскрипцией. Адаптация текста,...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-6023-2
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: июнь 2015
Agatha Christie`s famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir.But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said `I can`t go on`. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner`s verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?
ISBN: 9780008196547
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Английский писатель Артур Конан-Дойль известен как создатель Шерлока Холмса и один из основателей детективного жанра. Несколько менее известен он как автор исторических, фантастических и приключенческих романов, повестей и рассказов. И почти совсем не известен как сочинитель увлекательных произведений, в которых сильны элементы загадки и мистики. Читатель сможет познакомиться с этими малоизвестными...
ISBN: 5-8346-0075-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Tap into the magic of gratitude with Rhonda Byrne`s latest book - and change your life in just 33 days. No matter who you are, no matter where you are, gratitude can dissolve all negativity in your life, no matter what form it has taken. In this book, find the way to change your life by using gratitude to shift your energy. When you put all of your energy into gratitude, see how miracles can take place in your life.
ISBN: 978-1-84983-839-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: март 2012
Молодой Бассанио, юный венецианский дворянин, стремится очаровать прекрасную и богатую наследницу Порцию, но его пустые карманы не способствую её благоволению. Друг главного героя, купец Антонио, соглашается занять деньги у еврея-ростовщика. Однако деньги в долг выдаются с условием - в случае, если долг не будет уплачен вовремя, из тела Антонио... вырежут фунт мяса... Помогут ли деньги завоевать сердце...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05520-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages was the zenith of the Bible. It was a time when bibles were commissioned by kings, princes, and high-ranking members of the Curia, whose wealth and influence begat ornately illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship. The Most Beautiful Bibles covers examples from every epoch of the Middle Ages, presenting the Bible as it was visualized in both theological and historical contexts. As the beauty and significance of the illustrations are undeniable, the manuscripts are also examined from an art historical point of view. Texts by Andreas Fingernagel, Stephan Fussel, Christian Gastgeber, and a team of 15 scientific authors describe each manuscript in detail and explore the evolution...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0299-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе", адресованных детям, которые начинают знакомиться с английским языком. Это сказка о бедной девочке и ее маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Он варит кашу, стоит только произнести магические слова. Мама девочки в ее отсутствие "варит" кашу, но забывает слова, чтобы горшочек остановить. Вот уже весь дом полон каши. Вот...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5014-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: май 2013
The Maltese Falcon set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O`Shaughnessy, and when Spade`s partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby`s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
