Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This is the Elementary edition brought right up-to-date, with new topics and new features. The Workbook, Teacher's Book, Teacher's Resource Book, Audio CD and CD-ROM have all been revised.
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: Oxford Team! is an exciting new three-level English course for younger students by Norman Whitney. The key features of the Workbook are: • further practice of the communication points introduced in the Student's Book; • two pages of grammar practice in each unit; • further practice of the vocabulary presented in the Student's Book; • reading texts on a wide variety of up-to-date topics; • further…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 992) Аннотация: The dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English, now in a new edition with CD-ROM. Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you the common word combinations (collocations) that are essential for natural-sounding British and American English. Completely revised and extended, the new edition has over 250,000 collocations and over 75,000 examples.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The first ever 4th edition from the world's most trusted course — New Headway Intermediate, completely rewritten and packed with new material. — 100% new grammar presentations. — 100% new listening material. — 100% new reading texts. — 'Spoken English' and 'Music of English' features — new to Intermediate. — More teacher support for mixed-ability classes.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Me! cried Fanny...Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act». At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty' «Northanger Abbey» is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers — a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 Folio text — on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language and allusions — detailed introduction considers composition, sources, and critical and theatrical history — includes full…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: «It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: `When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse'. The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: «John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's «Frankenstein». Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov — himself a country doctor — recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured. This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: «This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina». Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm', 'Lucerne', 'The Diary of a Madman', and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' The stories are based on Kipling's own school, the United Services College at Westward Ho!…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important'. Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can convey. Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Eugene Onegin» is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men — Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself — and the fates and affections of three women — Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «The Queen of Spades» has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «`The victor belongs to the spoils'. Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to «The Beautiful and Damned» exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War One generation who believed life to be meaningless and who pursued wealth despite its corrosive effect. Gloria and Anthony Patch party until money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades and…