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Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A five-level general English course for 14-19 year-olds, who are also preparing for the school-leaving exam.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing — the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available — to give the essence of his work and thinking. Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet, musical, film, and opera. Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A new translation of Dante's most profound creation, which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen of a modern, complex community? Why is citizenship important? Can we create citizenship, and can we test for it? In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, Richard Bellamy explores the answers to these questions and more in a clear and accessible way. He approaches the subject from a political perspective, to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven... Twelve... Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs and opens the back door. There, awaiting him, is a beautiful garden. A garden that shouldn't exist. And there are children in the garden too — are they…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Mormonism is frequently described as the most successful indigenous American religion. Mormon beliefs arouse curiosity because they depart from normal Christian doctrine, leading to the question: Are Mormons Christian? This introduction will include the history of the contemporary Mormonism, and an analysis and emphasis of Mormon beliefs, beginning with Joseph Smith, the founding prophet. ABOUT…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 916) Аннотация: Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero…

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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story — from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today. Beginning with an explanation of the controversies surrounding the birth of life itself, each following chapter…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of liberal democracy. Though primarily a political biography which will concern itself with…

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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Once, a long time ago, a little donkey was brought to Jesus. The story of Easter is told here through the eyes of the donkey that carried Jesus into the city of Jerusalem. He watches the Last Supper, he sees Jesus brought before Pontius Pilate, he is there when Jesus is crucified, and he witnesses the joy of the resurrection. Every year, as these events are remembered, this beautiful retelling…