Reading And Training 4 Moby Dick (+Cd). Herman Melville The story is seen through the eyes of Ishmael, a sailor on the Pequod. Moby Dick is an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who relentlessly pursues the great white whale during a journey around the world.
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Macbeth (+ CD). Уильям Шекспир, William Shakespeare However, after a battle he encounters three witches who tell him that one day he will be King of Scotland. Macbeth is loyal and courageous, and is a friend of King Duncan’s. Soon his obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s
Reading And Training 4 Famous British Criminals (+Cd). Victoria Spence Discover an unbelievable world of adventure through their daring actions and remarkable timing!
Из серии: Reading & Training
2005. Enjoy reading about some of the most famous British criminals: Jonathan Wild, prince of robbers; Dick Turpin,
Reading And Training 4 Beowulf (+Cd). Victoria Spence Next, Beowulf will have to fight a fire-breathing dragon alone. The great warrior Beowulf comes to the Danish court of King Hrothgar to help free his people from the terrible monster, Grendel, and his evil mother. But will his efforts cost him his
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Reading And Training 3 Twelfth Night (+Cd). Уильям Шекспир, William Shakespeare Unknown to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian has also survived the shipwreck. After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria, Viola disguises herself as a boy to get a position at the court of Duke Orsino, who is in love with beautiful
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Three Men In a Boat (+CD). Клапка Джером Джером, K. Jerome Jerome Text adaptation and activities by Gina D.B. What can possibly happen to three friends and their dog when they take a peaceful boat trip on the River Thames? Well, just about anything! They have incredibly funny adventures as they visit historic
Reading And Training 2 Ransom Of Red Chief (+Cd). O. Henry O.Henry’s unique talent enabled him to create a world full of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. The Ransom of Red Chief is a wonderfully funny and ironic story about two inexperienced kidnappers and their unusual ‘victim’, with
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Reading And Training 2 Rajah`S Diamond (+Cd). Louis Robert Stevenson Owned by Sir Thomas Vandeleur, his wife tries to sell it to pay her debts. The Rajah’s Diamond, the most precious diamond in the world, seems to bring bad luck on everyone who comes into contact with it. Follow the diamond as it travels from
Reading And Training 2 Fisherman And His Soul(+Cd). Oscar Wilde The story is about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. A story on love and friendship by Oscar Wilde. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her! However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul. He
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Reading And Training 1 Tristan and Isolde (+CD). George Gibson After slaying a dragon and winning a tournament, the young prince Tristan wins the hand of beautiful Isolde for marriage to his uncle, King Mark. One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan and Isolde has inspired writers, poets, artists
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Reading And Training 1 Tales from The Thousand and One Nights (+CD) Travel through the streets of old Baghdad, around luxurious palaces and fragrant gardens in India, to desert islands in the China seas… all in the company of kings, sultans, princesses, merchants, enchanted horses, sailors and thieves. A
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Reading And Training 1 Sherlock Holmes Stories (+Cd). Arthur Conan Doyle The master detective solves the case of the horrible murder of a young woman in The Speckled Band. The world’s most famous detective surprises us again with the brilliant solutions to two seemingly impossible cases. Из серии: Reading &
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Reading And Training 1 Missing In Sydney (+Cd). Andrea M. Hutchinson But after celebrating Christmas Day on Sydney’s Bondi Beach one of them goes missing. Three best friends are travelling around Australia in search of adventure before they start university back home in the UK. Из серии: Reading &
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Reading And Training 1 Miami Police File(+Cd). G. Clemen After an unusual Halloween party, three of his teenage students decide to investigate the case with the help of O’Nell’s dog, Rover. Peter O’Nell, Montego High School’s favorite teacher, goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, and the Miami
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Reading And Training 1 Alien Alert In Seattle (+Cd). G. Clemen But no one believes there could possibly be an alien in town, until Karen, Barbara and Walter notice that one of the teachers at their high school is behaving very strangely. There has been a UFO sighting in the Cascade mountains near Seattle,
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Оскар Уайльд, Oscar Wilde Yet, as this collection admirably shows, he was also a poet, dreamer and, above all, born storyteller. Urbane, dandyish, sardonic - the popular image of Oscar Wilde does not immediately conjure up a writer of enchanting fairy tales. Others include
Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus. Мэри Шелли, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. The epic battle between man and monster reaches
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Macbeth. Уильям Шекспир, William Shakespeare But in so doing, he has upset the natural order and cannot hope to prosper. Encouraged by his ambitious wife and the prophecy of the witches, Macbeth, a noble warrior, slays Duncan the king and seizes the throne for himself. Из серии:
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Selected Tales. Эдгар Аллан По, Edgar Allan Poe In "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat" he wrote the first and best tales of terror; with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and his fictional detective M. The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Рое was a unique
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Three Men On The Bummel. Klapka Jerome, Клапка Джером Джером Из серии: Penguin Popular Classics
1994. Some time after their eventful trip on the river, chronicled in "Three men in a boat", the same three men suffer a renewed attack of itchy feet and decide to take off on a "bummel".
North and South. Элизабет Гаскелл Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. When her father leaves the
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Артур Конан Дойл, Arthur Conan Doyle Aided by his faithful friend Dr Watson he uses his razor-sharp wit and remarkable powers of deduction to solve the seemingly unsolvable. What is the secret of the speckled band that brings death in its wake? What terrible villainy is going on
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A Tale of Two Cities. Чарльз Диккенс, Charles Dickens There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the
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Moll Flanders. Daniel Defoe, Даниэль Дефо She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life.
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Heart of Darkness. Джозеф Конрад The darkness he encounters is both moral and physical: Mr Kurtz, the agent dealing in ivory whom he is to meet, is the embodiment of corruption, decay and exploitation. In this haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his experiences
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Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Джон Клеланд The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only recently been countered by serious critical appraisal. Fanny`s story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is coloured by
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The Thirty-Nine Steps. John Buchan An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game - and warn the government before it is too late. Adventurer
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Northanger Abbey. Джейн Остин Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to
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Mansfield Park. Джейн Остин, Jane Austen Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price
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Junk. Берджес Мелвин, Melvin Burgess This tour de force by an acclaimed and provocative writer should become a definitive teenage novel on this subject. This is an uncompromising, compelling and true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of
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The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle In some of his best known cases including `The Speckled Band` and `The Reigate Puzzle`, Holmes brings his unique powers of deduction to bear on the most challenging mysteries. Through the foggy streets of Victoria London to the deepest countryside,
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The Masterpiece. Эмиль Золя Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. The tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius.
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The Aeneid. Марон Публий Вергилий 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. The supreme Roman epic and the greatest
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Rachel Ray. Anthony Trollope The novel first appeared in 1863, a year in which public reaction against the excesses of the popular sensationalist novel prompted Trollope to state that he was writing about "the commonest details of commonplace life among the most ordinary
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Can You Forgive Her?. Энтони Троллоп Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. In this book, the first of six Palliser novels, Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy.
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The Mabinogion Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion.
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth. Уильям Шекспир Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for
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The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Уильям Шекспир The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March" and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives
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Round Dance and Other Plays. Артур Шницлер Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The playwright
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The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night One of the vanquished, Asvatthaman, carries out his threat to massacre the victorious army as it sleeps, and then unleashes a weapon of total destruction. In this, the tenth book of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, the war has finally ended
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Indiana. Жорж Санд It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It is
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Republic. Платон The sole purpose is to bring out what Plato meant, not to attack or defend his opinions. This version aims at conveying to the English reader as much as possible of the thought of the Republic in the most convenient and least misleading form. Из
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Metamorphoses. Публий Назон Овидий Comprised of over fifty stories, it chronicles the legends of King Midus, Daedalus, Icarus, Hercules, and the Trojan War, making this the definitive work of classical mythology. This cohesive collection of stories from Greek and Roman mythology