Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Dans ces récits contés, l’âme angoissée de Maupassant peint les hommes, leurs mœurs et leurs bassesses. Douze contes brefs d’inspiration naturaliste ou fantastique, où les personnages prennent la parole pour raconter la réalité quotidienne, souvent insolite. Trois chroniques où l’esprit d’observation, le style concis et incisif de Maupassant conteur…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: A stimulating selection of short stories from the United States (Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Dorothy Parker and O. Henry), Australia (Henry Lawson) and South Africa (the Nobel Prize-winning Nadine Gordimer) is the cultural springboard for a detailed analysis of this often neglected literary form. Students are guided towards a challenging approach to the texts: looking at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Sweet and Sour» is an involving and varied collection of gripping and enjoyable short stories whose captivating storylines greatly enhance readers’ enjoyment. All of them feature light and dark sides of human nature. Some stories have a devilish or unpredictable twist in the tale, some show how ordinary people are driven to murder, revenge and deceit by unexpected circumstances or odd events.…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This selection of ten short stories about women by modern writers (James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Roald Dahl, James Thurber, Edna O’Brien, Anne Cassidy, Malachi Whitaker and Janet Frame) from different English-speaking countries – England, Ireland, America and New Zealand – explores such themes as love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, myths and nostalgia. Dictionary work, the role of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A stimulating selection of extracts from important works and short stories by major authors of the 19th and 20th centuries – Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and George Orwell – which aims to improve students’ linguistic competence and introduce them to concepts of literary analysis through a wide range of activities. Each…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Doctor Faustus, a brilliant scholar, enters into an agreement with the Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in return for twenty-four years of knowledge, power and riches. But he realises the full implications of his rash action.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «Le Morte d’Arthur» tells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The tale begins with Arthur’s birth, his education, and his rise to the throne. It also recounts the tragic love story of Sir Lancelot and Guinevere, the destruction of the Round Table and Arthur’s mysterious disappearance or death.»
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In Genoa, the death by poisoning of a Milanese doctor upsets the peaceful atmosphere of the guest house, ‘Quarto dei Mille’, where Dr Capri spent the last night of his life. There isn’t enough evidence to think that it was suicide and the story has many mysterious aspects to it: why did someone who lived in Milan make an appointment with a lawyer in another city? And why did a rich man stay in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: These stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Edgar Wallace, Edmund Crispen and Geoffrey Bush, Margery Allingham and Julian Symons focus on the development of the detective genre: from the rationality of the Victorian investigator to the modern theme of the criminal as anti-hero.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A telephone number on a fifty-euro banknote, a bunch of red roses, a suspicious florist. All apparently commonplace things, which could go unobserved by anybody... but not the eyes of the attentive and alert Grandini, a retired police commissioner. Is the telephone number a cry for help, or does the commissioner simply see mysteries everywhere? Let yourself get involved in this adventure and help…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: A selection of twelve thematically-paired stories by a wide range of authors including Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, Kate Chopin, Maeve Binchy, Penelope Lively, Richard Hughes and Ed McBain. The stories are presented in six highly contemporary themes – children, love, mystery, murder, money, war – and accompanied by fascinating articles from English-language newspapers and…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Some important works of art disappear from a private collection. The owner suspects his wife and he contacts Ettore Bonetti to resolve the case. The young and fascinating detective has to follow the woman to a seaside resort near Venice so as to discover whether she is really responsible for the theft. During the ‘mission’, the likeable detective has interesting meetings and faces fun, strange…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: History and legend intertwine and the past seems to come to life in the present. Let yourself be guided through these suggestive places in one of the most fascinating Italian cities. Discover the magical atmosphere which is in the air, where time seems to stand still.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Georg’s neighbour has died. The fifteen-year-old suspects murder, so he takes on the role of detective and guides the reader through a story full of adventures.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: What is in the attic? And why are noises coming from there only when the adults are asleep? Hélène and André bravely go up the stairs into the attic, determined to solve the mystery. Follow them into a house which has fallen asleep, and discover with them what is hiding behind the attic door.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: C’est le roman balzacien par excellence dans lequel vices, passions, hypocrisie, ingratitude... sont peints avec un réalisme où l'écrivain est passé maître. C’est la peinture de la Comédie humaine dans Paris au XIXe siècle.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Conoscere l’italiano is a grammar book for beginner-level students: easy to use and clearly laid out. It is divided into 60 units and five appendices. Each unit deals with a specific grammar structure and offers a wide range of original and motivating exercises, which simplify the learning of the rules of the Italian language, which are often complicated. Thanks also to the use of summaries, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Sandokan and his pirates rule the Malaysian Sea in the 1840s, and the British want to capture him. One day he meets Marianna, Lord James's young niece, and they are immediately attracted to each other. Their love is impossible, but Sandokan and his friend Yanez make a daring plan to take Mariana away from her uncle.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Valeria, a beautiful and intelligent teenager, is a very good student, but can't seem to make friends. 'She's not one of us,' her neighbours say, convinced that strange things happen in Valeria's mysterious house on the cliffs. However, when Marco, the most popular guy in the class, becomes interested in her, everything seems like it is about to change. But is Marco the right guy? And what is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: What happens when a professor finds an object on the beach? Why does an antiques dealer go to Germany to look for hidden treasure? Who is the man in the library? In this collection of ghost stories you can find the answers to these and other questions. But will the answers terrify or surprise you?