Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture — the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: ''The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.'' Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 616) Аннотация: «Advanced Chemistry» breaks new ground for A-Level texts with revolutionary computer-generated graphics of molecules that will bring chemistry to life for your students. The authors have years of teaching experience between them, in both school and FE, and bring a refreshing approach to traditional A-Level material. With full mathematical support within 'Maths boxes' and at the end of the book,…
Скачать книгу (размер 366 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 73) Аннотация: You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers — A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings — Extensive introduction gives full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes, gender, and social…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Cyrano de Bergerac is a flamboyant character and a skilled swordsman, not in the least afraid of drawing attention to himself in public — for he can be highly amusing, even at his own expense, with jokes about his enormous nose. But he has a weakness: he has fallen in love with his beautiful cousin Roxane, and because of his own appearance is too ashamed to declare his love. Meanwhile Roxane is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A schoolteacher in a provincial town falls in love with and marries a young local woman. He thinks he's found a bliss only described in novels. But before long, his sharp points of bliss become blurred. The loss of ideals and poverty of actual experience are the themes of these stories. Chekhov's Russians, at the close of the 19th century are trapped in a prison of frustration, which he depicts…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Shepherd family have set off on their usual summer holiday under a cloud of gloom at the predictability of it all. When the car breaks down, they are forced to stay the night at the nearest B&B. To their dismay they find themselves at a place where Christmas comes every day of the year, complete with turkey and Santa Claus. And they discover it's even stranger than that, with the girl in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sunless sea where they…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of several hundred million other galaxies that we can now observe through our…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst…
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Скачать книгу (размер 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 79) Аннотация: Grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary practice for every unit Extra vocabulary — More Words to Learn, Check What You Know, MultiROM with video, quizzes, audio, dictations, exam practice, and reference material.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.''Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche's own favourite among all his books and has proved to be his most popular, having sold millions of copies in many different languages. In it he addresses the problem of how to live a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 198) Аннотация: A two-level introductory series for kindergarten and early elementary students studying English for the first time.
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Скачать книгу (размер 5 787 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1136) Аннотация: Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Château d'If. Having endured years of incarceration, he stages a daring and dramatic escape and sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo, and to catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, The Count of Monte…