The scarecrow would like brains, the tin man wants a heart and the lion wants to be brave, while Dorothy just wants to go home. Who can help them? The wonderful Wizard of Oz, of course!Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and American English).
From the classic fairy tale. When the Queen`s longed-for baby is born, the King invites seven fairies to the party in celebration. However, he fails to invite one malevolent fairy, and when the princess is sixteen years old, she hurts her hand on a spindle and falls asleep for a hundred years. With fun activities after the story, and online audio in both British English and American English.
Maiwa`s Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand is a short novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard about the hunter Allan Quartermain. The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06433-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The long awaited, brand new adult Discworld novel. It`s an offer you can`t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork`s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It`s a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There`s something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mintruns at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he`s about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he`s making enemies. What...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15490-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Сюжет социально-критического романа Уилки Коллинза "Муж и жена" основан на правовом парадоксе, который приводит к непредсказуемым поворотам человеческих судеб. Спустя три месяца после освобождения из тюрьмы мистер Ванборо женится, но несовершенное и противоречивое законодательство Великобритании становится верным помощником и соучастником его вероломных преступлений. Дочь мистера Ванборо решает...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05509-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. A subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen`s most profound works. Taken from the poverty of her parents` home, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with only her cousin Edmund as an ally. When Fanny`s uncle is absent in Antigua, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive in the neighbourhood, bringing with them London glamour and a reckless taste for flirtation. As her female cousins vie for Henry`s attention, and even Edmund falls for Mary`s dazzling charms, only Fanny remains doubtful about the Crawfords` influence and finds herself more isolated...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07627-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The youthful Allan Ouatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life - for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06434-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Marion Fay" is a novel of two love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner. Marion Fay is a Quaker`s daughter courted by the Lord Hampstead. Meanwhile, his best friend, the impoverished George Roden, is in love with the Lord`s noble sister. Differences of class and situation create a romantic drama in typical Trollope fashion.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08348-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2019
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. "Marmion" novel in verse, which, at the time of the first publication, made his author famous. The plot revolves around Lord Marmion, a favorite of Henry VIII of England and his love interest, rich woman Clara de Clare. To get her, the Lord and his mistress, Constance De Beverley, forge a conspiracy against Clara`s fianc? Sir Ralph De Wilton, causing an avalanche of unexpected events.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07549-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Marriage" is a novel, which features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house Marjorie's family is renting for the summer.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08237-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
The visionary master of science fiction at his best. Written in the age of the atom, when America and Europe optimistically viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's closely interwoven tales of a brutal, stark and unforgiving Martian landscape are both astonishing and insightful. "The Martian Chronicles" tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. Those few who survived found no welcome on Mars. But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more. People brought their old prejudices with them - and their desires and fantasies and tainted...
ISBN: 978-0-00-647923-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Дата выхода: август 2011
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст известной детской повести-сказки П.Трэверс "Мэри Поппинс". Издание рассчитано на школьников, изучающих английский язык и нуждающихся в качественных и доступных текстах для его освоения.
ISBN: 978-5-9542-0096-6
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2009
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus." "Mathilda" is a fictional novel that tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the actions of her father, who confesses his incestuous love for her. The main hero, Mathilda, a young woman in her twenties on the verge of death, tells this story trying to explain her actions to her friend.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07525-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. The plot of the play "Measure for Measure" Shakespeare borrowed from the collection "Hecatommithi" by Giovanni Battista Giraldi. Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, realizing that during his reign there was a fall in morals, declares that he is going on a diplomatic mission outside his domains and leaves the strict judge Angelo in charge. Angelo soon uses his power and decides to execute the young nobleman Claudio, because he and his beloved pregnant Juliet...
ISBN: 978-5-517-00392-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019