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Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet. They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art we have from any of the major English poets. Yet quite apart from the light they throw on the poetry, they are great works…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: When Dinah is fostered by the Hunters she thinks her biggest problem will be fitting in with her foster-brothers, Lloyd and Harvey. However, once she starts at her new school it's clear that there's more to worry about. All the children, apart from a handful including Lloyd and Harvey, are too well-behaved-robotic almost-and oddly keen to please the creepy headmaster. The three children set out…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of Herford and Simpson's edition (OUP 1925-52), with full annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A five-level general English course for 14-19 year-olds, who are also preparing for the school-leaving exam.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'But I don't want to go among mad people', Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that', said the Cat. 'We're all mad here'. The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, they are also complex textures of mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. Alice's…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window... The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant short pieces she plays with plots, stock characters, diction, and style, developing a sense of form at a remarkably early age. The characters of these stories have a jaunty and never-failing devotion to themselves. They…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Eugenia, Baroness M nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently, by natural affection; but the Baroness has also come to seek her fortune. The advent of these visitors is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension. The…
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Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Designed to follow the latest CIE IGCSE syllabus, this revision guide will provide revision material which is presented in a clear, concise, but not too condensed format, appropriate for international students aged 14-16. They may be used for study and homework throughout the year but are predominantly intended as a student revision purchase. Suitable for all students, it will stretch those of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it. Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovative poems explore the complexities of human emotion and ponder the great questions of religion…
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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This is the Elementary edition brought right up-to-date, with new topics and new features. The Workbook, Teacher's Book, Teacher's Resource Book, Audio CD and CD-ROM have all been revised.