Funny, irreverent and sometimes sad, here is the story of the early life of one of the world`s best-loved authors. From the evocation of an enchanted boyhood spent in Wales and Norway to his unhappy experiences at an...
In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom for ever. Braveheart is...
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight...
It`s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany`s. And nice girls don`t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly...
Breakfast at Tiffany`s. Завтрак у Тиффани
Meet Holly Golightly - a true original, a free-spirited, lop-sided romantic who owns a fiery red cat as wild and restless as she is. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses,...
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian`s magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its...
Bridesshead Revisited. Посланец жениха
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh`s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells tht story of Charles Ryder`s infatuation with the Marchmains and the...
British Museum is Falling Down (Penguin Decades Ed.)
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time...
JANE EYRE "The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself". "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" "May you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!"...
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her...
Such is the strength of Joe Saul`s longing for a child, that he feels he is cursed after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His young wife secretly conceives the child of another...
"Business English: Pair Work 1" Gives Students of Business English Invaluable Practice in Communication Skills. Pair-Work Exercises are Ideal Building Confidence in Business Communication. The Exercises Provide...
Call of Cthulhu & Other Stories (B)
remade the horror genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe. This selection of stories ranges from early tales...
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...
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...
Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. This, the first of Fleming`s tales of agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian...
