Abandoned at six months old, Moll has no option but to use her considerable wit and looks to make her way in a world where no mercy is given to the unadaptable. As a woman her options are limited and Moll embarks on a rollicking career of incest, bigamy and crime. Five times married, a whore and a thief, her business is survival - and survive she does, both a prisoner and manipulator of her circumstances, whose timely spiritual regeneration in prison is, she tells us, "the best part of the story". Формат: 11 см x 18 cм.
ISBN: 0140620257
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
The Moonstone, a large, beautiful yet fated diamond, was stolen from an Indian shrine. It is given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday and, that same night, stolen again. Sergeant Cuff is employed by Rachel's mother to find the precious stone and has no shortage of suspects. By turns, those on the periphery and at the heart of the mystery tell their version of events until all is unravelled at the unexpected conclusion. A pioneer in the art of the English detective novel and a master of innovation, Wilkie Collins was one of the most successful and gifted writers of his generation. In the words of Michael Innes The Moonstone "stands alone in its (there is) a sense of attending upon the birth of the detective story"....
ISBN: 0140620133
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
ISBN: 0140620753
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 1997
Oliver Twist is one of Dickens\'s most enduringly popular novels. Oliver Twist, a meek, mild young boy, is born in the workhouse and spends his early years there until, finding the audacity to ask for more food, he is made to leave. Apprenticed to an undertaker by Mr. Bumble, Oliver runs away in desperation and falls in with Fagin and his gang of thieves where he begins his new life in the criminal underworld. Under the tutelage of the satanic Fagin, the brutal Bill Sikes and the wily Artful Dodger, Oliver learns to survive, although he is destined not to stay with Fagin but to find his own place in the world. With its terrifying evocation of the hypocrisy of the wealthy and the depths to which poverty pushes the human spirit,...
ISBN: 0-14-062046-X
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 1995
В серии Penguin Popular Classics вышли все самые известные произведения Джейн Остин: Sence and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Northange Abbey, Mansfield Park. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
ISBN: 0140620540
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 1994
A haunting tale of suspense and intrigue set in nineteenth'Century Paris. As Monsieurs Richard and Moncharmin prepare to take over as acting managers of the Opera House, they discover their predecessors have bequeathed them the 'Opera Ghost'. A separate memorandum-book has been set aside for his various whims, including extravagant financial needs. Heedless of the numerous warnings to comply with these strange demands the managers shrug it all off as a practical joke taken too far. Then a sequence of eerie coincidences and tragic events follow, culminating in the sudden disappearance of the beautiful prima donna Christine Daae in mid-performance. Tortured by the pangs of unrequited love, the mysterious figure living...
ISBN: 0140621741
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and wishes to create her own future, rather than finding it as a wife. Consequently she refuses two very eligible suitors: Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, who has followed her to Europe from America. When her uncle Lord Touchett dies, leaving Isabel a fortune, he unwittingly does her a great disservice, for on a visit to Italy she is introduced by Madame Merle to Gilbert Osmond. Osmond is a charming but worthless dilettante who sees Isabel as a beautiful prize, a mother for his daughter Pansy, and a source of easily attained...
ISBN: 0140622497
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2002
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" The opening of Jane Austen`s ever - popular novel sets the tone of her sparkling comedy of manners and morals. There are five daughters in the Bennet family and marriage is the only career open to them. There is naturally much excitement when two young men of good fortune move into the district. But before there can be a happy ending, the hero must conquer his overwhelming pride and Elizabeth, the spirited heroine, her prejudices against him. Only by taking the route to self - knowledge can they reach a mature understanding of each other and find lasting contentment.
ISBN: 0-14-062022-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июнь 1994
Puck of Pook`s Hill is Kipling`s magical evocation of England`s history, a joyous celebration of all that is best in a country and its peoples. In a sleepy meadow by a mill-stream, Dan and Una act out their version of A Midsummer Night`s Dream and suddenly Puck himself appears. A small, blue-eyed, pointy-eared person, he is as old as Time itself and has seen many wonderful things which the children are eager to hear about. As he tells them stories of gods, of noble deeds and chivalrous knights, of adventures at home and on the high seas, a whole new world opens up before them. Through Puck, Dan and Una begin to develop a sense of their own heritage and a knowledge and understanding that will help them through life.
ISBN: 0-14-062147-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Пособие по домашнему чтению содержит английские и ирландские волшебные сказки, сказку У.С.Моэма `Принцесса Сентябрь` и приключенческий роман Р.Л.Стивенсона `Остров сокровищ`. Включенные в пособие художественные тексты сокращены и адаптированы, снабжены разнообразными упражнениями, комментариями и словарными материалами. Пособие рассчитано на учащихся младших и средних классов школ, гимназий и лицеев.
ISBN: 5-8346-0050-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001