Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author`s first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine`s movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell`s skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society. This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market. Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later: the complex relationships, public...

ISBN: 978-1-85326-093-3
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Автор настоящей книги рассказов - современная швейцарская писательница Элен Ришар-Фавр, лингвист по образованию, преподававшая в Женевском университете. Ее герои почти всегда люди, попавшие в беду в какой-то момент жизни, чаще всего - старики, никому не нужные и неспособные сами что-то изменить в своей судьбе. Для чтения каждой новеллы достаточно пяти-десяти минут; однако прочитав их все, вдруг...

ISBN: 978-5-9710-8080-0
Издательство: URSS
Дата выхода: июль 2020

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. This volume contains three famous novels by Gaskell. The "Moorland Cottage" is a story of Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman who is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. "Lois the Witch" is a story set against the backdrop of the Salem witch hunts, where recently orphaned Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage and sail to America. And "Mr. Harrison`s Confessions" is a story of country doctor William Harrison who is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the "wooing and winning" of women`s affections.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07718-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains three famous novels by Haggard. The Wizard is a book about adventures and the nature of miracles that could be enjoyed by both adults and children alike. In Elissa Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa, a trading town that was built by civilized men. And in Black Heart and White Heart, the author mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07732-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. This volume contains some of his less famous novels. Colonel Jack is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Also, following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea, The King of Pirates, a story of pirate life.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08178-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains three famous novels by Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma - a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman. And The Witch`s Head is the second novel by Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon`s Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British...

ISBN: 978-5-521-07740-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018

The Perfect Jessica and Ian were a golden couple - young, glamourous, successful and deeply in love. Until one afternoon`s casual faithlessness threatened their relationship, ended their days of happiness and nights of desire. Or so it seemed. But for Jessica and Ian, the lesson of love was only just A reprint of a novel which has been unavailable since 1987, about a young, glamorous, successful couple whose relationship is threatened by an afternoon`s faithlessness.

ISBN: 978-0-7515-4249-3
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012

ISBN: 9781405299725
Издательство: Farshore
Дата выхода: январь 2022

This classic collection of nursery rhymes is perfect for playtime and storytime. With charming illustrations and well-loved characters, chidren will love hearing their favourite rhymes over and over again.

ISBN: 978-1-84646-797-4
Издательство: Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2015

Oak tree (Julia Donaldson)Watch a thousand years unfold in the life of one magnificent tree . . . A tiny acorn grows . . . and GROWS into an enormous oak tree! The world around it changes. People and animals come and go. Finally, after a thousand extraordinary years, the ancient tree falls in a storm – and a new acorn sprouts, beginning the cycle of life all over again. Julia Donaldson’s rich, dramatic rhyme brilliantly celebrates the people and creatures whose lives are touched by this one remarkable tree. The story is brought gorgeously to life by Victoria Sandy, acclaimed illustrator of The Christmas Pine .Дуб (Джулия Дональдсон)Оригинальный текст, без адаптацииНаблюдайте,...

ISBN: 9780702324345
Дата выхода: декабрь 2025

ISBN: 9781408895689
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2019

The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS is THE definitive guide to IELTS. It contains all you need to succeed in the exam. Skill-building exercises cover all of the question types in the exam for both the General Training and Academic Modules. Our research into real IELTS candidates` exam answers - and the mistakes they make, helps you avoid the same ones! Eight official practice tests and a focus on test-taking strategy help you maximise your score. The DVD-ROM includes videos of the Speaking test, and all the listening material, including the tests, as MP3 files. IELTS is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment.

ISBN: 978-1-107-62069-8
Издательство: Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2014

Oh, baby the places you`ll go! (Dr. Seuss)Written to be read aloud to babies and babies-to-be and based on the bestselling classic `Oh, the Places You`ll Go!`,Это только начало (Доктор Сьюз)Написано для чтения вслух младенцам и будущим малышам по мотивам классического бестселлера "О, месте, куда вы пойдете!".

ISBN: 9780008663414
Дата выхода: декабрь 2025

ISBN: 9780008592219
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023

ISBN: 9780195377934
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2010

Moving in together. What could go wrong?Two couples, best friends for half a lifetime, move in together. What could possibly go wrong…?Harriet and Mark have it all: successful careers, a lovely house in a leafy London suburb, twin boys on the cusp of leaving home. Yvette and Gary share a smaller place with their two daughters in a shabbier part of the same borough.But when the stars align for a collective move north, it means a fresh start for them all. For Mark, it’s a chance to escape the rat race; for Harriet, a distraction from her unfulfilled dream of a late third child. Gary has decided to reboot the Madchester band that made him famous, while Yvette hopes it will give her daughters what she never had herself.But as the reality...

ISBN: 9780008288457
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man`s challenge to the elements in which he lives.

ISBN: 9780099908401
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020

ISBN: 9780330523622
Издательство: Picador
Дата выхода: январь 2011

Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. "Oliver Twist" features some of the author`s most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and "the Artful Dodger". For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, "Oliver Twist" is, without doubt, an essential title. Издание на английском языке.

ISBN: 9781853260124
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2000

ISBN: 9781526617408
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2022

ISBN: 978-1-409-53569-0
Издательство: Usborne
Дата выхода: декабрь 2025

On Becoming a Jungian Sandplay Therapist discusses the deep inner process of becoming a sandplay therapist and addresses important creative aspects of understanding and practising sandplay. It describes the current theory behind the approach and the roles of the therapist and the client, as well as exploring the healing potential of nature and the numinous in art and sandplay. It provides a detailed case study outlining the ten year sandplay process of a Moroccan-born woman, whose fear was transformed by creativity and emotional support. Later chapters look at symbols as containers of power, and discuss the use of individual sandplay in group sessions.

ISBN: 9781849053389
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012