Read along and sing along to this rough and tough, swinging and swaying, seawashy piratical yarn! One night, young Tom is awoken by noises outside his house. He peeps out of the window and what should he see but pirates. And stranger still - they`re girl pirates stealing the front of his house! Tom joins their pirate adventure across the high seas to an island where some rather lazy and silly grown-up pirates are guarding their treasure - but not very successfully. Tom and the girl-pirates make a surprise attack and are soon off on the seas once more with the treasure!
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3043-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. The Observations of Henry is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and their ways to solve romantic problems.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08036-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
From the author of the award-winning work "The Last Season" comes the untold story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds.
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Outsider and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Book," "He, What the Moon Brings," "Hypnos" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00254-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead - and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release. He can no longer sleep, and the Wizards of Earthsea are worried. But there is more at stake than the unquiet rest of one minor wizard: for the dragons of Earthsea have arisen, to reclaim the lands that were once theirs. Only Tehanu, herself daughter of a dragon, can talk to them; it may be that Alder`s dreams hold the key to the salvation of...
ISBN: 978-1-84255-211-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Outsiders by is a ground-breaking, timeless story by a brilliant writer. `...the hand at the back of my neck was strong. I`m drowning, I thought ...`The Socs` idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his brothers and friends - until the night someone takes things too far. The original teenage rebel story. The 40th anniversary edition. was only seventeen when The Outsiders was first published in the USA. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the story takes place, and lived in a borderline neighbourhood mixing with both greasers and socs. This experience helped her to understand the boys about whom she writes. The Outsiders was made into a major film,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-131457-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Эта известная сказка "Старушка и поросенок" понравится детям дошкольного возраста. Они с радостью прочитают книжку, легко усвоят новые слова и выражения, а вопросы, предложенные в конце книги, помогут обсудить содержание на занятиях по английскому языку.
ISBN: 5-89815-447-4
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: март 2005
Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome`s legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome`s endless civil and external wars, a man not only conscious of his own power, and contemptuous of lesser men, but respectful of the republic, and determined not to be worshipped as a living god or crowned as an emperor, a man whose very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. With her extraordinary knowledge of Roman history, Colleen McCullough brings Caesar to life as...
ISBN: 978-0-09-928052-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phis) and George Cattermole.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens` most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.Dickens was conscious of the `many friends` the novel had won for him, and `the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of...
ISBN: 9781853262449
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
In and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American girl becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film as Constantin Demiris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all. Welcome to "The Other Side of Midnight" - and one of Sidney Sheldon`s most dazzling and surprising novels of suspense.
ISBN: 0-446-35740-5
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don`t always find the answers ...
ISBN: 978-0-194-78913-4
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
This dazzling novel from bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4914-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2013
В настоящий том включен первый роман трилогии `Приключения капитана Блада`, написанной английским писателем Рафаэлем Сабатини. Рафаэль Сабатини (1875-1950) - классик приключенческой литературы, написавший десятки историко-приключенческих романов, к лучшим из которых, несомненно, принадлежит предлагаемая читателям `Одиссея капитана Блада` Книга выдержала десятки изданий на русском языке, и теперь читающие...
ISBN: 5-8346-0163-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
`Ah, you English girls! There is nobody like you when you are nice!` said Mam`zelle. Pat and Isabel are determined to work hard this term. But it`s just so tempting to play a few tricks on Mam`zelle.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-1978-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
When it was first published in 1967, "The Outsiders" defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world.
This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare`s "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953581-1
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Outsider and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Book", "He, What the Moon Brings", "Hypnos" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08207-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Sometimes there is very good reason to be afraid of the dark! Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day`s ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet`s Brook. As dusk falls each evening, a mist rises from the ground promising death to any foolish enough to brave the coming darkness. For hungry demons materialize from the vapours to feed, and as the shadows lengthen, all of humanity is forced to take shelter behind magical wards and pray that their protection holds until the dawn. But when Arlen`s...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727614-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011