Знаковый фантастический роман Артура Конан Дойла, породивший множество экранизаций. В книге описываются приключения британской экспедиции в Южной Америке. Профессор Джордж Челленджер мечтает доказать существование доисторических животных в современном мире. На скалистом недоступном плато экспедиция обнаруживает "затерянный мир" - район, заселённый динозаврами, человекообразными обезьянами и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05535-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
The Department has faded since the war, effectively mothballed, without agents or resources. But now, with intelligence of a possible missile threat, it again has a mission. This is a chance to prove its influence to those at the Circus, like George Smiley, who think the Department`s time has passed. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-340-99436-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Ladybird Book of British History is the ideal first reference book for primary school children. It is packed with information about topics children will learn at school, including the Romans, the Tudors, and Victorian Britain. Full of fascinating facts and detailed drawings, this handy book will form an invaluable part of any child`s first reference library. Includes a weblink to a downloadable timeline of British history.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0872-0
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley`s most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955235-1
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien\'s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit. Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. This is the first part of a three-book...
ISBN: 0-00-714921-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: март 1999
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally — well, to be accurate, artificially — business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what`s wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.
Jules Verne.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
One night, four men and a boy, who are prisoners of war, escape in a hot air balloon. They travel for five days in a dangerous storm and then crash on a very strange island. During their adventures on the island, they realise that someone is watching and helping them. Who is this unknown person? And will they ever escape from the Mysterious Island?
ISBN: 9781845588649
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. This volume includes four amazing works like "A Fable," "Hunting a Deceitful Turkey," "The McWilliamses and The Burglar Alarm," and the novel "The Mysterious Stranger" itself.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00216-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
ISBN: 978-5-519-02227-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Книга представляет собой две адаптированные и сокращенные части знаменитого цикла Л. Фрэнка Баумана о Волшебной стране Оз, рассчитанный на широкий круг лиц, изучающих английский язык. Тексты сказок снабжены занимательными упражнениями.
ISBN: 5-8112-0176-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: август 2004
For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. As he lay dying, Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and protector of the valley, gave stewardship of the powerful talisman to the young Tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty Trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48422-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton`s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children - hopeful, yet hapless beings.
ISBN: 978-0-571-22444-9
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Set during the Jacobite Rebellion, "The Master of Ballantrae" tells the story of James Durie, Master of Ballantrae and his brother Henry. Their family is torn apart by the events of this Jacobite rising. James abandons his home to support the Scottish rebellion, while Henry, being faithful to the English crown, inherits the title of Lord Durrisdeer. But years later James returns to demand his inheritance.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07781-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot and his family hurt and stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is found and taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious and no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from. Meanwhile time is running out for his wife and son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive.
ISBN: 0-521-78361-5
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Это сказка о бедной девочке и её маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Горшочек варит кашу, стоит только произнести волшебные слова. Но как же его остановить? Помимо увлекательной сказки, книга содержит занимательные упражнения и словарик, в котором собраны все новые слова с транскрипцией. Адаптация текста,...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-6023-2
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: июнь 2015
Остросюжетный философский роман Колина Уилсона `Паразиты сознания`, содержащий элементы фантастики, по праву считается лучшим произведением писателя. Символические существа, проникающие в сознание человека и преследующие тех, кто смело и творчески мыслит,порождают общественное зло и разрушительные войны, приводят к гибели людей. Познать себя и мир - главная задача человека, помогающая ощутить свободу...
Original / British English Pete and Carla are students. One day they look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, but they are very expensive. Later that day some coins are missing from the shop and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7814-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue - and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. Whoever assembles and interprets the cryptic clues of this ancient mystery will possess the power to control the fate of the world. What strange powers lie hidden within the manuscripts? Splashed against a lavish backdrop that sweeps from the rise of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "The Magic Circle" finds one woman standing at the center of it all: Ariel Behn. As she races across continents to reveal the dark secrets buried in her family`s past, she begins to unlock the...
ISBN: 0-345-42313-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст известного романа С.Моэма "Луна и грош" (1919). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 5-9542-0039-4
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: декабрь 2004
These works are unique in Conrad`s oeuvre in being openly autobiographical — but in scope and literary form they differ widely. In The Mirror Conrad explores his vast knowledge of the sea in an era when the sailing ship gave way, after thousands of years, to steam. A Personal Record is Conrad`s account of himself, his cultural background, and the central motives in his life as a seaman and a writer separated from the country where he was born.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06679-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Уильям Уилки Коллинз - известный английский писатель XIX века; драматург, автор многочисленных романов, пьес и рассказов. Роман "Лунный камень" по праву считается лучшим и одним из самых знаменитых романов автора. Увлекательный сюжет, в котором мастерски сплетаются тайна древнего проклятия и запутанная детективная история, отмечен тонким психологизмом. Неповторимая атмосфера старой доброй Англии и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05153-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2017