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Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers Porthos, Athos and Aramis soon become his friends. After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful Milady and the cruel Cardinal Richelieu?

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the attention of the reading public. The 'two nations' of the alternative title are the rich and poor, so disparate in their opportunities…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well! The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. Seneca advises his friend on how…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: It's London, 1666. It's a hot, dry summer. A small fire starts in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane. Soon the city of London is burning and the fire-fighters can't stop the fire. People are running from their houses down to the River Thames. But how does the fire begin and who can stop it? What is the King of England doing to help?

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: The Happy Prince is a beautiful golden statue high up on a column in the city. Everyone loves him. He Feels sad about the city's poor people, but what can he do? He can't leave his column. Then the swallow arrives, and helps the Happy Prince to do many good things. But what about the swallow's dream of flying to Egypt? And what does the Mayor do when the Happy Prince loses all his gold?

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Hercules is the strongest man in the world, but one day he does something very bad. The priestess at Delphi tells him: The gods are angry with you. For twelve years you must work for King Eurystheus, and do twelve tasks for him. When you finish, the gods can forgive your crime. Some tasks are easier, and some tasks are more difficult. Can Hercules finish all twelve of them? And what happens when…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth. This is the beginning of one of Jules Vernes most exciting stories. Is this message true? We must go to Iceland and see! says Lidenbrock excitedly. But his nephew, Axel, wants to stay at home. Can Lidenbrock and Axel and their Icelandic guide,…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a good actress... or is she just a pretty face? What does Zoe think when she reads the newspaper? What does she do?

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories — 'Batard', 'Moon-Face', 'Brown Wolf', 'That Top page Spot', and 'To Build a Fire.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: 'Rus! Russ!...Everything within you is open, desolate, and flat; your squat towns barely protrude above the level of your wide plains, marking them like little dots, like specks; here is nothing to entice and fascinate the onlooker's gaze. Yet whence this unfathomable, uncanny force that draws me to you?' Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Sinbad the sailor spends many years at sea. He visits strange countries, meets some strange people and some frightening animals. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor and always in danger. But all the time he is learning from his adventures, until finally he returns home to Baghdad, an older and wiser man.

Скачать книгу (размер 254 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 51) Аннотация: For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible... The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him. Can Isolde find Tristan in time? Can their love survive?

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while temperature falls to-20 degreeC or lower. Every year, some who try to climb the highest mountain in the world do not return. But for a century people have been coming to climb Everest — some alone, some in groups, but all with a dream of going…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: The men and the woman in this book — William Tell, Tom Blood, Lord Bao, King Matthias, Johnny Appleseed, and Lady Godiva — are all real people from history. But every time someone tells an old story, they change things in it, to make them bigger, better, and more exciting. So what is true in this book and what is not? Read all six of the stories, and see what you think.