Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyone prepared to defend all expression in every circumstance, especially if the views expressed incite violence. So where do the limits lie? What is the real value of free speech? Here, Nigel Warburton…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own «wicked» life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled 'A Chronicle of 1830', Stendhal's depiction of a nation of smug hypocrites scandalized contemporary readers, who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Hard Times--Dickens's shortest novel and one of his triumphs--tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close — the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. However illogical as a detective story, 'The final Problem' has proved itself an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'New eyes were opened in her soul. She saw a strange creature from another world, in him. It was as if she were enchanted, and everything were metamorphosed.' In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take centre stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 'In the year of grace 1066, the Lord, the ruler, brought to fulfilment what He had long planned for the English people: He delivered them up to be destroyed by the violent and cunning Norman race.' Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. In this 'sparklingly clear' (Guardian) introduction to ethics Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to Margaret Sherwin, and the consequent horrors of betrayal, insanity, and death, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the first half of the nineteenth century. Collins' treatment of adultery shocked contemporary reviewers, and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he created has the power to disturb the modern reader.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the rulers of Britain, including their policies, personalities, key dates, and legacies. There are almost 600 entries, which are organised by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 'Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite unlike the rest of his poetry. At Oxford Wilde discarded the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: «Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice. Hardy's indictment of society's double…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, for its deeply imaginative religious vision, and for its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world. A. V. C. Schmidt's translation of the B-text is provided with…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Mental Maths contains mental maths activities for your child to do at home — along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The activities consolidate mental maths at Key Stage 2, covering time, fractions, measurement, pictorial and verbal problems. They are an easy way to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Reasoning Skills — Non-Verbal contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their non-verbal reasoning skills at home along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The questions are diagrammatic or pictorial and involve simple sequencing or odd-one-out type…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Everybody knows about the United States of America. You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere in the world. Cowboys, jazz, hamburgers, the Stars and Stripes — that's the United States. But it's a country with many stories to tell. Stories of busy cities, and quiet, beautiful forests and parks. Stories of a country that fought against Britain, and then against…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The best material I've seen at this level: — Motivating, real-world text. — Grammar bank with rules and exercises. — Illustrated Vocabulary Bank and Sound Bank. — Practical English focus on everyday language.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man — a man of peace. I have a dream, said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites living together in peace…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction — Marian Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant 'Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White set new standards for suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.