Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature, wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 506) Аннотация: The Upanisads are the central scriptures of Hinduism. They represent some of the most important literary products in the history of Indian culture and religion, both because they played a critical role in the development of religious ideas in India and because they are our greatest source for the religious, social, and intellectual history of ancient India. Composed at a time of great social,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Containing facts, attributions, and anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents an influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before discussing the mature…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The supreme Roman epic and the greatest poem in Latin, the Aeneid has inspired many of the great European poets including Dante and Milton. The Trojan hero Aeneas, after surviving the sack of Troy, makes his way to the West, urged on by benevolent deities and following a destiny laid down by Jupiter, but harassed and impeded by the goddess Juno. He wins his way to Italy despite many trials, of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The contact with... primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. (Joseph Conrad) Flowers look loveliest in their native soil... plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid. (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power earned Crane instant success, and led to his spending most of his brief remaining life war reporting. The other stories collected in this volume draw…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A two-level course that allows language to emerge naturally through songs, pictures, stories, and activities. — It creates a lively classroom atmosphere that encourages children to participate actively in every lesson. — The action centres around the adventures of an appealing group of children, their imaginary friend, their teddy, and their dog. The themes are central to children's lives and…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A two-level course that allows language to emerge naturally through songs, pictures, stories, and activities. — It creates a lively classroom atmosphere that encourages children to participate actively in every lesson. — The action centres around the adventures of an appealing group of children, their imaginary friend, their teddy, and their dog. The themes are central to children's lives and…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of Jocelin's narrative, and the annotation is particularly clear and helpful.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A unique insight into British life and culture. — Both videos in this series contain eight factual reports, introduced by a presenter. Window on Britain topics are: An introduction to Britain, Schools, Food, Home, Sport, Festivals, Pop, and London. — Window On Britain 2 topics are: Work, Animals, Holidays, The Media, Leisure, The Environment, Health, and Law and Order. — The reports combine…
Скачать книгу (размер 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 68) Аннотация: A three-level course for pre-teenage students which bridges the gap between primary and secondary learning styles. Workbook — 4 pages of practice material per Student's Book unit — main vocabulary from each unit
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: A unique insight into British life and culture. — Both videos in this series contain eight factual reports, introduced by a presenter. — Window on Britain topics are: An introduction to Britain, Schools, Food, Home, Sport, Festivals, Pop, and London. — Window On Britain 2 topics are: Work, Animals, Holidays, The Media, Leisure, The Environment, Health, and Law and Order. — The reports combine…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 349 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 658) Аннотация: Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society — in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism — but the Barsetshire novels are no more…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 635 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 518) Аннотация: This new translation has an Introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Felix Holt, austere, idealistic, and passionate, is pitted against the self-satisfied local landlord Harold Transome in this story set in a Midland borough at the time of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. Every class of society is included in Eliot's vivid picture of political ferment.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 508) Аннотация: The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me. Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death. It is the twenty-first century, and England is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: A three-level course for students beginning English from around the age of nine, Brainwaves has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and secondary learning styles. The slow-start syllabus accelerates steadily as the students grow in maturity and confidence. There is a structural syllabus with a grammatical summary at the back of each Student's Book, and an emphasis on communication,…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: A three-level course for students beginning English from around the age of nine years, Brainwaves has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and secondary learning styles. The slow-start syllabus accelerates steadily as the students grow in maturity and confidence. There is a clear structural syllabus with a grammatical summary at the back of each student book and an emphasis on…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: A three-level course for students beginning English from around the age of nine years, Brainwaves has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and secondary learning styles. The slow-start syllabus accelerates steadily as the students grow in maturity and confidence. There is a clear structural syllabus with a grammatical summary at the back of each student book and an emphasis on…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A wealth of imaginative ideas and resources for helping children to create their own stories, books, and plays while they become confident in their ability to speak and write in English.