From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is the longest continuous footpath in the world, and it snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America.
ISBN: 978-0-552-99702-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
`One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents` bedroom`. This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and, in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She`s also about to fall in love for the first
ISBN: 978-0-552-99796-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death`s threshold to restore the balance.
ISBN: 0-553-26250-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008
Оскар Уайльд - английский философ, писатель, поэт и один из самых известных драматургов XIX века. "Женщина, не стоящая внимания" - блестящая пьеса автора, написанная ярким языком, прекрасно иллюстрирующая быт и нравы английского светского общества, обличает его пороки и заблуждения, шокирует незабываемыми образами. Так кто же она - Женщина, не стоящая внимания, и что кроется в её прошлом?.. Читайте зарубежную...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05150-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Oscar Wilde's genius is to the fore in this witty, audacious comedy of Victorian manners. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an earnest, upright young man whose prospects are limited, so he is overjoyed when the suave Lord Ulingworth offers him employment as his secretary. His mother, however, implores him to refuse this brilliant entree into sophisticated society. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
ISBN: 0140622454
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox. Massachusetts. All the tales are modified from the original myths.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07700-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Издания, представленные в серии «Простое чтение на английском языке», являются учебными пособиями по страноведению и истории, развивают познавательную активность и способствуют развитию у учащихся навыков аналитического мышления. Предназначены для учащихся 7—8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или школьников старших классов обычной средней школы. Также могут быть полезны...
ISBN: 978-5-17-054656-5
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: октябрь 2008
Натаниель Готорн - классик американской литературы, чьи работы остаются актуальными по сей день. В сборник мифов «Чудо-книга для мальчишек и девчонок» представлены и адаптированы для юных читателей 6 мифов Древней Греции: «Яблоки гесперид», «Миф о Химере», «Миф о Персее и Медузе Горгоне» и другие. Читателей ждут невероятные приключения, известные герои и увлекательные истории, которые...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05779-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
`Foreigners who spend time in Russia soon learn that there are actually two Russias - one public and the other private. The public Russia is typically cold and dark, backward and wary. The private Russia - the Russia of tea at a friend`s kitchen table or of sauteed mushrooms in a village dacha - is almost unfailingly cosy and kind`- From the IntroductionTravel to the author`s Russia on a journey that takes you to a springtime bliny festival and Easter feast, to a small Russian village to discover nature`s bounty, on a mystical quest for autumn mushrooms, and to Red Square for New Year`s and Christmas celebrations. Stop along the way for a vegetarian dinner in a communal apartment, a birthday party, a baptism, a tea party and a Russian...
ISBN: 0-553-81613-6
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author`s own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor`s turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection contains some of Bulgakov`s most personal and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress.
ISBN: 978-1-84749-286-9
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
`For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tack
ISBN: 978-0-241-95582-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2012
