Reading and Training: Stories for the Curious (+ Audio CD)

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?

Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d'Arthur (+ Audio CD)

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.»

Lancelot (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: To save Queen Guinevere, who is being held prisoner in the Kingdom of Gorre, will Lancelot risk being dishonoured by going on the defamatory road to doom? Along the journey full of dangerous perils, the brave knight encounters numerous traps set by the evil Meleagant…

Jane Austen: Emma (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father’s house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has led her into danger.

Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: This great historical novel, published in 1831, is a formidable representation of life in Paris in the fifteenth century. Four people dominate the story: Quasimodo, the hunch-backed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame; Claude Frollo, the tortured arch-deacon; Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy and Phoebus, the captain of the King’s archers.

Tiziana Merani: Veleno a colazione (+ Audio CD)

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…

Arthur Conan Doyle et al.: Detective Stories

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.

Regina Assini: Rose rosse per il commissario (+ Audio CD)

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…

La Casa Sulla Scogliera (+ Audio CD)

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…

R. Boutegege: La Fugue de Bach (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The curtain rises and the audience is shocked to discover that the prima ballerina has suddenly disappeared. Will police commissioner Morand, accompanied by the music of Bach, be able to solve the mystery?

M.-C. Bertrand: Le Secret de Louise (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: How can a normal student language study holiday turn into an exciting adventure? Well, that is what happens to Anne, a German teenager who has come to study in Bordeaux, when she finds Louise’s secret diary. Some disturbing, badly-written entries, set Anne off on an adventure to discover Louise’s secret.

S. Deon: Il Viaggio di Laurent (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In search of his origins, Laurent sets off on a journey which starts in Paris and, passing through Florence, Rome and Positano, leads him through some of the most beautiful cities in Italy. This experience and his encounter with Luigi, a distant relative, means that Laurent finds a deep-rooted link with his family, but also with the typically Italian colours, flavours and smells.

Saki: Wicked and Humorous Tales (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A dramatic intrusion ends a long family feud, a man is strangely influenced by his pets, a cat brings scandal to British society and a little boy battles to enjoy life with the help of his own personal god. These are just a few of the amazing stories created by Hector Hugh Munro – alias master short-story teller Saki, ex-journalist who turned to writing satirical tales.

R. Bottcher: Die Rache des Computers (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Lazy and selfish Michael suddenly loses control of his computer and is taken on an unusual adventure.

Johann Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen: Simplicius Simplicissimus (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Immer abenteuerlich, oft traurig, oft komisch geht es in der Welt unseres (Anti) Helden Simplicius zu Die Zeiten sind danach. In Deutschland tobt der Dreißigjährige Krieg. Mit Übungen zum Leseverständnis und zahlreichen Aktivitäten zur Grammatik und Wortschatz. Die beigefügte Audio-CD enthält den dramatisierten Text des nacherzählten Romans.

Oscar Wilde: Tales to Talk About (+ Audio CD)

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…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Another case for Sherlock Holmes finds Dr Watson sent to Devonshire to investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, mutilated by a large dog according to the tradition of the curse of the house of the Baskervilles. The new heir to the estate returning from America calls upon the great detective to solve this puzzling enigma

Mauro Dei Rossi: Tango (+ Audio CD)

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…

Oscar Wilde: The Fisherman and his Soul (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A story on love and friendship by Oscar Wilde. The story is about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her! However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul.

Laura Rubino: Viaggio a Venezia (+ Audio CD)

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.