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
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel`s themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts. A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens`s usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story.Also included in this...
ISBN: 9781853267291
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
ISBN: 0-09-928476-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе", адресованных детям, которые начинают знакомиться с английским языком. Это сказка о бедной девочке и ее маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Он варит кашу, стоит только произнести магические слова. Мама девочки в ее отсутствие "варит" кашу, но забывает слова, чтобы горшочек остановить. Вот уже весь дом полон каши. Вот...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5014-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: май 2013
`...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from ` Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe`s brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the creeping insanity of "The Tell-Tale Heart", the Gothic nightmare of "The Masque of the Red Death", and the terrible doom of "The Fall of the House of Usher". The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119897-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This is a fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov`s exuberant comic masterpiece. A literary sensation from its first publication, "The Master and Margarita" has become an astonishing publishing phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films. Mikhail Bulgakov`s novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil`s existence, even as it is confronted with the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-35134-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2010
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Mudfog Papers is his collection of" sketches that describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog. It also describes the delusions of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble, his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07942-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018