"The Mixed-Up Chameleon" is a captivating picture book from Eric Carle, author-illustrator of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", that teaches young children the key differences between animals and the importance of being yourself. A chameleon`s antics with colour, shape and size show what makes each animal different and why it`s important to be yourself. Eric Carle is an award-winning and bestselling author-illustrator of books for very young children. His books include the much-loved classic "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Rooster`s Off to See the World", "Today is Monday", "Draw Me a Star", "The Very Busy Spider" and "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird". His most famous book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide...
ISBN: 978-0-14-050642-6
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul`s richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul`s upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. For the past ten years, Pamuk has been setting up a museum in the house in which his hero`s fictional family lived, to display Kemal`s strange collection of objects associated with Fusun...
ISBN: 978-0-571-23700-5
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Antonio, the merchant of Venice, and Shylock the money-lender have struck a bargain whereby Shylock will lend Antonio some money provided that if Antonio cannot repay him, Shylock can claim a pound of Antonio`s flesh. Antonio`s ships are lost and Shylock seeks to enforce the contract. As Jew conflicts with Christian, the ancient argument for justice tempered by mercy is pleaded by Portia. This edition of the text contains notes, a glossary and an introduction. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062376-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne`s awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07768-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Partially based on the author`s voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912, this novel tells the story of Mr. Pathurst who books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle. To his surprise, the hero becomes a witness of a mutiny that starts with the sudden death of the captain.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07482-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Издания, представленные в серии "Простое чтение на английском языке", являются учебными пособиями по страноведению и истории, развивают познавательную активность и способствуют развитию у учащихся навыков аналитического мышления. Предназначены для учащихся 7-8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или школьников старших классов обычной средней школы. Также могут быть полезны...
ISBN: 978-5-478-01124-6
Издательство:
Аверсэв
Дата выхода: август 2010
Роман "Тайна Клумбер-холла" - один из шедевров А. Конан-Дойля, на страницах которого читатель погружается в мистическую атмосферу таинственного и загадочного. Для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0156-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004
Lady Candling`s best Siamese cat has gone missing. It`s another mystery for the Find-Outers! The gardener, Luke, always seems so friendly. He couldn`t possibly be the Or could he?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0394-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author`s unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives. Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to...
ISBN: 978-0-199-53703-7
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2013
Suze should be spending the summer vacation at the beach. Instead she`s been forced to get a babysitting job at a swanky resort. She`d expected to look after some boring brat, so Suze is surprised to find that her charge is actually a budding mediator – with a totally hot older brother. Not that Suze`s head could be turned by some guy – she`s pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. But it`s tough when the boy you love doesn`t seem to love you back, and it`s even tougher when you think you`ve found his 150-year-old grave in your backyard. Suze knows it`s dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?
ISBN: 978-0-330-43740-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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: 978-5-8112-5581-8
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2015
The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06180-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
The Maltese Falcon set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O`Shaughnessy, and when Spade`s partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby`s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
A man trapped in a millionare`s deadly game of political and sexual betrayal. Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, "The Magus" is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labrinthine twists of event, "The Magus" is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.
ISBN: 0-440-35162-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Молодой Бассанио, юный венецианский дворянин, стремится очаровать прекрасную и богатую наследницу Порцию, но его пустые карманы не способствую её благоволению. Друг главного героя, купец Антонио, соглашается занять деньги у еврея-ростовщика. Однако деньги в долг выдаются с условием - в случае, если долг не будет уплачен вовремя, из тела Антонио... вырежут фунт мяса... Помогут ли деньги завоевать сердце...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05520-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
Марк Твен - один из самых известных американских писателей, чьи произведения отличает живость повествования, искромётный юмор и умение поднимать философские вопросы. "Таинственный незнакомец" - это последняя незаконченная повесть Марка Твена, впервые опубликованная уже после смерти автора его секретарём и хранителем литературного наследия. Сюжет разворачивается в средневековом городе Эзельдорфе в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05776-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
This anthology of Rudyard Kipling`s greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. `The Man Who Would be King` is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves at the level of god and king over the primitive people of Kafiristan. Other famous short stories included are: `Only a Subaltern`, `The Phantom Rickshaw`, `Wee Willie Winkle`, and `Baa Baa, Black Sheep`. `The Man Who Would be King` was made into a popular film in 1975, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer and directed by John Huston.
ISBN: 1-85326-209-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests that she needs a murder to solve. Then there is a death in the village. Is it murder? Did the right person die? Suddenly, Jane Marple has a new interest in life. And then there are more deaths
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6130-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: март 2011
The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove "The Master and Margarita".
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. This volume contains two novels, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the final unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings. The Haunted House is a collection of ghost tales by Dickens, who wrote the opening and closing stories, framing them, and five other authors: Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07944-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018