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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. In this fun story, the reader follows…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the struggle for Greek independence. Describing himself as `born for opposition', his work was largely directed against what he called the `cant political, cant…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes?

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: I'm afraid to look in the storeroom. All our food for the winter — where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children — my God, they eat more than their parents! Izzet Efendi and his family are afraid that their guests are never going to go home, but what can they do? Bookworms World Stories collect stories from around the world.…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose hands and face are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'. Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of rhythms, images, forms, and personae, from irresistible seducer to devout…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', «A Sentimental Journey» (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Everything's ready now. We can do the experiment, says your assistant Joe. You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, other people want to try to steal your idea — can you stop them before they escape?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh,…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: A woman and a man... words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her... It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time — today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: «Twenty Years After» (1845), the sequel to «The Three Musketeers», is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: You are in a small plane, going across the Rocky Mountains. Suddenly, the engine starts to make strange noises... Soon you are alone, in the snow, at the top of a mountain, and it is very, very cold. Can you find your way out of the mountain?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had voluntarily chosen me to be a vessel of mercy, though I should desire, and long, and labour until my heart did break, no good could come of it... How can you tell you are Elected? (GA, 47) In seventeenth-century England, the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, with its belief in the predetermined salvation of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Typhoon», «Falk», «Amy Foster», «The Secret Sharer» The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In 'Falk' a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Who is the man with the roses in his hand? thinks Anna. I want to meet him. Who is the girl with the guitar? thinks Will. I like her. I want to meet her. But they do not meet. There are lots of men! says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day...

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people! Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably,…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. 'This will bring me luck', he said to Mr Balicki. 'And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me'. The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold, and afraid, the four children try to stay alive among the ruins of bombed cities in war-torn Europe. Soon they will begin the long and…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The people on this island don't like archaeologists, the woman on the ferry says. You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic stones but very soon strange things begin to happen to you. Can you solve the mystery in time?