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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, only to discover instead the Nautilus, a self-contained world built by its enigmatic captain. Together Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater marvels, undergo a transcendent experience amongst the ruins of Atlantis, and plant a black flag at the South Pole. But Nemo's mission is one of revenge — and his methods…

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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His farther was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever. Henry James Henry James's admiration for this masterly little novel has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important'. Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can convey. Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the…

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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 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the Life of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio Condivi.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The bitter tragedy of human life — horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Eugene Onegin» is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men — Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself — and the fates and affections of three women — Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «The Queen of Spades» has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The flexible English course that features motivating material from pop culture to interesting world facts.