Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
Contemporary / British English Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it`s better not to tell. But it`s just as dangerous if you don`t. So Mark needs help because there isn`t much time.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8209-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A typist uncovers a man`s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o`clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Set in eighteen century Dublin, "Cock and Anchor" is a story of two lovers, young Edmond O`Connor and miss Mary Ashwoode. Being an unwanted pair for the Ashwoode family, this couple has to contend with the prejudices and outright tyranny of Mary`s father, Sir Richard, and her brother Henry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07128-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
What changes occurred and what remained the same in Chinese civil justice from the Qing to the Republic? Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chinese law. It also casts a new light on Chinese law by emphasizing rural areas and by comparing the old and the new.
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07681-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Collected Tales II from master storyteller includes two stories: Little Flower and Only a Dream, a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07602-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08069-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07692-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07691-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway`s Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation" and others
ISBN: 978-5-521-07687-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories is a collection of humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers that offer the modern reader a window into American West. Perhaps reflecting O. Henry`s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07679-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories is Hawthorne`s interesting story collection, which was written in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories "The Procession of Life", "The Artist of the Beautiful" and other tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07699-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories is a collection of humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers that offer the modern reader a window into American West. Perhaps reflecting O. Henry`s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07680-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes In The Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel" and other famous stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07675-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Wilde`s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is "The Happy Prince". Counterpoints to this were his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece "The Importance of Being Earnest". His essays - in particular "De Profundis" - and his "Ballad of Reading Gaol", both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-550-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories contains "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Friendly Call" and other famous stories by O. Henry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07673-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales contains some amazing stories: "October and June", "Greater Coney", "Law and Order" and others.
ISBN: 9785521076864
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Collected Short Stories I introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soiree. An Accursed Race is actually an essay about a persecuted minority group, the Cagots in Western France. The Doom of the Griffiths is a gothic short story about a cursed family and set in Wales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07617-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia" and other stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07677-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Colonel Quaritch is a story of an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride — the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07757-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018