Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: One day fifteen-year-old Carlos discovers some mysterious footprints in the snowy mountain. Has the abominable snowman possibly returned? Also, who was the strange man Carlos met at the town hall? Carlos investigates to solve the mystery and save his town from a terrible catastrophe.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Fourteen-year-old Thomas Laventure has been living for the last six months with his family in Nunavut, an Inuit-populated territory in northern Canada, searching for meteorites. One day, while building an igloo in the garden, he suddenly finds a mysterious, warm red stone...
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Plain orphaned Jane Eyre lives unwanted with her aunt and cousins until she is sent away to school. There, hungry and humiliated, she grows and studies. When Jane leaves school to work as a governess at the aristocratic Thornfield Manor owned by the intriguing Mr Rochester, she finally finds some happiness. But some strange events are signals that the mysterious past of Mr Rochester's is about to…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Fanny, a seventeen-year-old student, dreams of becoming a journalist. So she goes with her brother to the Cannes Film Festival, to do a report on a famous actress, Nina Maje. But something happens and Fanny and her brother are dragged into a mystery.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Young John Trenchard lives in Moonfleet, an English village with dark secrets. One day he discovers a hidden crypt below the cemetery where smugglers meet and hide their goods. Here he accidentally finds the skeleton of evil Colonel Mohune, better known as Blackbeard, and a precious clue that could help him find Blackbeard’s treasure… Thrilling adventures with smugglers, the king’s soldiers, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Poor Cinderella! She has to do all the housework, and her sisters won’t take her to the ball! But thanks to a fairy godmother – and her pets! – she does go to the ball. There, the Prince falls in love with her, but will he find her again?
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Find out about the legend of King Arthur and how he became King, where he found his great sword Excalibur, about his love for Guinevere, and all about the courageous Knights of the Round Table.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Mal mariée à un homme fruste, Thérèse tente d’empoisonner ce mari si différent d’elle. La peur du scandale jette un voile sur cette affaire et Thérèse va bénéficier d'un non-lieu. Tandis qu’elle rentre chez elle, Thérèse laisse défiler pour nous les images de son passé.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The school year has just finished and group of young friends from New Zealand, prepare to go on a cruise. When a disaster happens, the friends find themselves shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, without the ship’s captain or crew. Will they be able to survive all the dangers? Will they ever see their families again?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Ce récit, enchâssé dans l’œuvre plus ample, «À la recherche du temps perdu» se situe à Paris et narre l’amour de Swann, et sa jalousie, pour Odette. C’est le récit de l’échec amoureux de Swann et sa descente aux enfers. Swann quittera Paris pour entreprendre une espèce de convalescence.»
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Where’s Éric? He hasn’t come home from school. Has he run away? Has he been kidnapped? Éric’s parents are very worried, but the Police Commissioner is able to solve the mystery in his own unique way. Includes a playscript.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Entrepreneur Monsieur Delaunaye is well-known all over France and abroad. His brand of products are, in fact, considered to represent a high degree of taste, elegance and style… When he mysteriously disappears without a trace, Inspector Gaudin leads the investigation. They uncover the other side of the picture: a business in crisis with risky managerial problems and family conflicts…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organisation in Conan Doyle’s ‘The Five Orange Pips’; in Charles Dickens’ ‘Hunted Down’ a ruthless murderer is brought to justice; in ‘The Stir Outside the Café Royal’ by Clarence Rook an American woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer; and in G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Oracle of the Dog’ Father Brown solves a difficult murder case.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This collection of short stories brings together some of Katherine Mansfield's best fiction, such as Bliss, At the Bay and The Garden-Party. It also charts her artistic development from the young, brash, exciting voice of The Swing of the Pendulum, through the mature, innovative style of Prelude and the structural perfection of The Doll's House, to the measured black humour of The Fly.
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.