Скачать книгу (размер 2 329 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 458) Аннотация: The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it provides a unique insight into his career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material of 70-100 hours per level. — An up-to-date, friendly course which draws on a wide range of approaches to provide students with the balance of reflection, practice, and use necessary…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material of 70-100 hours per level. — An up-to-date, friendly course which draws on a wide range of approaches to provide students with the balance of reflection, practice, and use necessary…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy. Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spell as she is crowned a national genius at the Captitol. Yet, on returning to England, he succumbs…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 526) Аннотация: This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; Women Beware Women and The Changeling (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare — studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; and A Game at Chess…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other schoolboy adventures.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 780) Аннотация: This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material.
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: - This is a practical and imaginative addition to the New Headway. — It helps students to express themselves clearly and confidently by training them in the key areas of pronunciation. — There is practice of individual sounds, with a guide to suitable exercises for speakers of particular languages. — There is a focus on lexical sets. — Training is given in stress and intonation patterns for…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work and a place to live, but Will's single-minded ambition to desing and pilot flying machines, which terrify Christina every time he leaves the ground. Will is certain he can become a success, but what price is he willing to pay for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Widowed during the First World War at the age of 21, Christina returns to Flambards in the hope of picking up the threads of the life she knew before her marriage. But the Flambards Christina returns to is not the same — the paddocks are a jungle, the house buried in ivy, and the once busy stables empty and desolate. Christina sets herself to the task of returning Flambards to its former glory.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: ...there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's 'grotesques' — solitary figures unable to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his 'Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called a trifle, and that triflingly handled, reflects their youthful vitality. The Old Arcadia tells a romantic story in a manner comparable to that of Shakespeare's early comedies. It is divided into five Acts, and abounds in lively…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: English Channel builds on the successful Grapevine< /a> formula, combining humour with clear language content for effective and enjoyable learning. The language syllabus is similar to that of the Grapevine course and the videos can be used with any beginner to pre-intermediate coursebook. English Channel 1 and English Channel 2 both consist of eight self-contained comedy stories. Each story has a…
Скачать книгу (размер 575 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 114) Аннотация: This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This new translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters, while the Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.
Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century…