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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', «A Sentimental Journey» (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: «Twenty Years After» (1845), the sequel to «The Three Musketeers», is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Typhoon», «Falk», «Amy Foster», «The Secret Sharer» The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In 'Falk' a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 440 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1264) Аннотация: - A hardback dictionary, ideal for everyday reference at home, school, or work — Contains over 150,000 words, phrases, and definitions — Two-colour layout and accessible design help you find the information you need quickly and easily — Features all the words you need, with extensive coverage of essential vocabulary, plus the most-used technical and specialist terms — Effective English centre…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: • Fully revised and updated: Over 5,100 entries — 200 new to this edition • Covers all aspects of personal and international finance, from private investments and borrowing to European and American commerce. • Recommended web links for many entries, accessible via the Dictionary of Finance and Banking companion website • Useful feature entries on areas requiring a fuller explanation, such as…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This best-selling dictionary is written by one of the most famous philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively and accessible coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: • A hardback thesaurus, ideal for home, work, or school, with over 230,000 syonyms and antonyms • Features all the words you need for everyday use, with synonyms given in order of usefulness • New usage notes on commonly confused words help you to avoid common pitfalls • Centre section includes new and updated lists of nouns, such as types of birds, bread, and butterflies, to help you expand your…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: - Exciting and skilful adaptations of a range of modern novels — New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the revised Programme of Study for Key Stage 3. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing — Insights into the plays themselves by their popular authors and adapters…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This three-level grammar practice series takes students through from Basic to Advanced level English.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast — Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live — outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula — a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim...

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf — he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Greg is a teenager with a problem — his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course... or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops — and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends — friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time... or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet... or when his only son died? We know the facts of…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting... In these stories by Edgar Allan…