By the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Walking on Glass", this book is set in Japan and on the Panama Canal. It concerns a world famous Japanese cellist, who refuses to fly, and as a result finds herself involved in...
Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to "internment" or death. It also give a psychological insight into the...
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that "all is for the best". But when his love for the Baron`s rosy-cheeked...
Джордж Бернард Шоу - ирландский прозаик и критик XX века и самый прославленный - после Шекспира - драматург, писавший на английском и языке. "Кандида" - это остроумная лирическая комедия о вечных и вечно новых...
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that `all is for the best`. But when his love for the Baron`s rosy-cheeked...
Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect - and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on business, he spends the empty hours of the night in a compulsive search for female...
Floss`s parents split up when she was younger and she now divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum`s new boyfriend and her new baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad,...
Candyfloss is the perfect introduction to jacqueline Wilson. When Floss`s mother and stepfather announce they are moving to Australia for six months, Floss has to decide whether to go with them or stay home with Dad -...
"The Canterbury Tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer`s wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy...
Canterbury Tales, The Bk +D #ост./не издается#
`We’ll give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree`. The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to...
Canterbury Tales: Retelling by Peter Ackroyd
The Canterbury Tales is a major part of England`s literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath`s Arthurian legend to the Miller`s worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century...
The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the...
The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get...
Oscar Wilde’s wonderfully satirical yet comical account of an American family living in England, has lent itself beautifully to adaptation in this book. Young children easily relate to the Otis twins, as they...
Canterville Ghost and Other Stories, The
Classic / British English The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder...
Intended for children whose reading ability is beginning to grow, this title helps build confidence and ability. It is part of the "Usborne Young Reading Series Two".
Canterville Ghost and Other Stories, The
Три коротких рассказа всемирно известного писателя XIX века: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire и Lord Arthur Saville`s Crime.
Canticle for Leibowitz (Hugo Award)
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself,...
In this masterwork of suspense by John , an insane criminal, fueled by rage and vengeance, threatens to destroy a family - and the police are powerless. For fourteen years, convicted rapist Max Cady nursed his hatred...
