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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham…

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin’s gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends – but can they protect him from people who rob and murder without mercy?

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A retelling of Dickens' famous novel about the trials and tribulations of the poor young orphan boy, Oliver.Follow his journey from the appalling conditions of a nineteenth-century workhouse to London.

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: A romantic thriller set against the background of the French Revolution.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. «A Christmas Carol» has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham. Here, Pip meets and falls in love with the beautiful, cold-hearted Estella but can they ever be together?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: 'I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the first-person narrative, a new departure for him, realized marvellously…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The spectre of the French Revolution — the rumbling of the death carts, the thud of the guillotine, the ferocious mobs and the storming of the Bastille — is vividly portrayed Charles Dickens' epic tale.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: After 18 years of imprisonment in the Bastille, the devoted Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter, the gentle Lucie, in England. There she captures the hearts of two very different men--Charles Darney, a banished French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a well-known English lawyer, both of whom must compete for her love. With a twisting plot of revenge, corruption, and love played out under…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Christmas.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. 'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Nicholas Nickleby is a kind man who works at a cruel school full of poor, hungry children. Can he ever find happiness in a world where stupid, greedy people have all the power and brave, honest people have nothing? Now a major film.

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: - A retelling of the classic Charles Dickens story for children growing in their reading confidence and ability. — Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.

Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: 1860 — England. Two frightening ghost stories. The Signalman: A visitor comes to a signal-box next to a railway tunnel. The signalman tells the visitor about his important work. But the signalman also tells him a frightening story. Is the story true? Is there a ghost on the railway? The Ghost at the Trial: George Fothergill listens to a trial in a court of law. A man is accused of murder. Did the…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This simple retelling of the classic Dickens Christmas story has been adapted for children starting to read independently and remains faithful to the original text. With illustrations by Alan Marks, children will shudder at Marley's ghost and sympathize with Tiny Tim's plight.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Ebenezer Scrooge is rich and mean. At Christmas, he is visited by three ghosts, who show him his past, present and future. Scrooge realises it is better to be generous and happy than mean and miserable.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Pip Pirrip is a poor orphan boy destined to become a blacksmith. But a chance meeting with an escaped convict and an invitation to the house of the eccentric Miss Havisham mark the beginning of great changes in his life. After receiving a large amount of money from a secret benefactor Pip goes to London to be educated as a ‘gentleman’. But who is his secret benefactor?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes — grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 436 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 479) Аннотация: «Приключения Оливера Твиста» — самый знаменитый роман великого Диккенса. История мальчика, оказавшегося сиротой, вынужденного скитаться но мрачным трущобам Лондона. Перипетии судьбы маленького героя, многочисленные встречи на его пути и счастливый конец трудных и опасных приключений — все это вызывает неподдельный интерес у множества читателей всего мира. На немецком языке.»