By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as `the first...
Contemporary / American English John Steinbeck wrote some of the best and most famous American stories ever. Jody Tiflin is often alone and he knows little of the world. But one day he gets a pony. He learns how to...
Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother`s death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn`t. Her real...
Contemporary / American English I have no job. I have no money. I have debts I can`t pay. I do, however, have a case. Rudy Baylor is ready to finish law school but loses his first job before he has even started. Then...
In 1891, the great detective Sherlock Holmes disappeared. A month after Holmes`s disappearance, his good friend and colleague Dr Watson published an article in the newspaper, explaining that Holmes died while...
The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin = Краснокожие: роман на англ.яз. Cooper J.F
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes=Возвращ. Ш.Холмса
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The...
"The Rainbow" is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this historical framework Lawrence`s essential concern is with the...
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies uncovers cinema`s funniest and most varied genre, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the dark indie humour of today. The canon of fifty greatest funnies runs from The Gold...
It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring...
Now in paperback - the astonishing "New York Times" bestselling novel about two friends who find the key to a labyrinth that holds the secrets of an ancient text called the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili". When a fellow...
The Road to Jerusalem: Crusades Trilogy book 1
The epic story of one man`s fight for his love, his God and his Country.
The Rainbow = Радуга: роман на англ.яз
Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс - выдающийся английский писатель, романы и повести которого составляют неотъемлемую часть литературы XX века. Роман "Радуга", изданный в 1915 году, сразу же после печати был запрещён, а первый...
Jack London (1876-1916) 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...
The Ransom of Red Chief/Вождь краснокожих
"Вождь краснокожих" - знаменитый рассказ О.Генри о неудачном похищении двумя мошенниками мальчишки - сына богатого горожанина. Кардинальное отличие серии "Легкое чтение на английском языке" от других, предлагающих...
The Revenge Of Captain Paine (Pyke Mystery)
It is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially asked to investigate...
