In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and...
Alfred Noyes`s famous poem still has the power to thrill us as we read the story of the highwayman and his doomed love for Bess, the landlord`s black-eyed daughter. Charles Keeping`s stunning illustrations won this...
The Hollywood Family Film: A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter
The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales. 6-7 Forms
Пособие для домашнего чтения
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered...
A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings.Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the...
The House by the Sea. + 2 AudioCD
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s ability. Carl begins...
The Horrible History of the World
The nasty bits at your fingertips! "The Horrible History of the World" presents the foul but fascinating story of humans from brain-nibbling Neanderthals to terrified teenage soldiers in the twentieth century. Want to...
Simplified and shortened, this is an accessible retelling of the great literary classic and remains faithful to the original text in its treatment of the story. Dastardly deeds are afoot at Baskerville Hall, and when...
The Haunted Hotel & No Thoroughfare = Отель с приведениями. В тупике: на англ.яз
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The novella The Haunted Hotel is a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and...
Конан Дойль. Собака Баскервиллей на английском языке.
The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons = Палач, или Аббатство виноградарей на англ.яз
One of the Cooper`s "European trilogy", The Headsman set in Switzerland. The novel was inspired by one of Cooper`s trips during his European travels in 1832. The novel explores a number of themes related to how...
The House of Pride = Храм гордыни: на англ.яз
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large...
The Handmaids Tale (TV Tie-In)`
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was...
The House of the Seven Gables = Дом о семи фронтонах: роман на англ.яз
Натаниель Готорн - классик американской литературы, чьи работы остаются актуальными по сей день. «Дом о семи фронтонах» - второй роман писателя, по праву считающийся выдающимся образцом готического романа....
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Carl begins to worry when his wife Linda does not arrive for the weekend at their seaside house in the east of England. When he asks local people whether they have...
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the...
