Agnes Grey. Anne Bronte Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience.At age 19 Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer.Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can aff ect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was
A Study in Scarlet. Дойл Артур Конан В хорошем детективе важно не упустить ни одной детали! Поэтому мы сделали адаптацию знаменитой повести Арутра Конан Дойля – для тех, кто уверенно читает
The Tragedy of The Korosko. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As an adventure novel, "The Tragedy of The Korosko" tells the story of European tourists on a trip to Egypt, sailing up the River Nile in a boat called the Korosko. During a morning tour of the
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Morning Star (Утренняя звезда). H. Rider Haggard This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that was rightfully his. Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the
Micah Clarke I. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Micah Clarke" is a historical adventure novel set in the times of Monmouth Rebellion in England. The book follows the story of an extraordinary man, who starts as a romantic
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Charles Dickens: Short Stories. Charles Dickens Серия English Fiction Collection состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Читая книгу на языке оригинала, вы не только обогатите собственную лексику
No Name II. Collins W. Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Written in the early 1860s, No Name was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers. Magdalen Vanstone and her
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The Shadow-Line. J. Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. The
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Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Stalky & Co" is a great novel about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and
The Redskins or Indian and Injin / Краснокожие. James Fenimore Cooper 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 literature.This is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating
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Vivian Grey. B. Disraeli Бенджамин Дизраэли - это не только известный английский писатель, представитель "социального романа", но и важный государственный деятель Великобритании XIX века.
Чудеса страны Оз / The Magic of Oz. Л. Фрэнк Баум Книга представляет собой две адаптированные части знаменитого сказочного цикла американского детского писателя Лаймена Фрэнка Баума о Волшебной стране Оз. Эта
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Five Tales. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes wonderful stories like "The First and The Last", "A Stoic", "The Apple Tree", "The Juryman" and "Indian Summer of a
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Fraternity. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration. This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga". It is the story of a bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic
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Swallow. Haggard H.R. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Swallow is a story of a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a
Colonel Quaritch,V.C.. Haggard H.R. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Colonel Quaritch is a story of an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride - the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of
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Ayesha. The Return of She. Haggard H.R. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She. Horace Holly and
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The Other House. Henry James Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism Startling novel "The Other House" is the story of a struggle for possession - and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he,
Armadale III / Армадейл 3. Wilkie Collins When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also
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Rodney Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. While being a gothic mystery novel, "Rodney Stone" contains so much more! This book has a fantastic coming-of-age story set in the world of boxing fights in England during the Napoleonic Wars. The
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The Black Robe / Человек в чёрном. Wilkie Collins The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. In this novel of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves. Collins is best known for originating the genre of the “sensation
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Bullring Kid and Country Cowboy This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Despite their very different backgrounds, two fifteen-year-olds are drawn together and discover that they share more than they had ever imagined. This is a
The Story Of Moving Pictures: Level 2 How did people make and watch films in the past? Do you know what magic lanterns or kinetoscopes were? Or nickelodeons or drive-ins? Find out in this
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Belshazzar. H. Rider Haggard The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously. Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian
Collected Short Stories I: An Exciting Christmas Eve. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is a wonderful collection of selected short stories like "That Veteran," "The Winning Shot" and "An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on
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The Snow-Image and Other Tales. Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This volume includes such amazing three amazing stories "Fanshawe", "The Snow-Image" and "The New Adam and
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The Idiot / Идиот. F. Dostoyevsky The Idiot is a remarkable literary feat; a true accomplishment. It not only shows and represents true human complexity, but it births it, both in the inner workings of its passionate characters, and in the overall story.Prince Myshkin returns to St. Petersburg from Switzerland. "The Beautiful Man",
"The Ransom of Red Chief" and Other Stories. О. Генри Читать О.Генри в оригинале по силам только «продвинутым». Эту адаптацию мы сделали специально для тех, кто не очень давно изучает английский. Вы поймете все шутки и
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Not Safe to Be Free. James Hadley Chase Сюжет романа разворачивается на пляже, отдыхая на котором, главный герой видит девушку, позирующую перед фотообъективом. Внезапно его посещает мысль о ее
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DOMINOES 2 ZORRO: CURSE OF CAPISTRANO NE Серия Dominoes – превосходные книги для чтения, которые увлекут вас не меньше игры в домино! Прекрасный язык, адаптированный под различные уровни, интересное
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Precaution / Предосторожность. James Fenimore Cooper Precaution is the fi rst novel written by American author James Fenimore Cooper. It was written in imitation of contemporary English domestic novels like those of Jane Austen and Amelia Opie. In the customary practice of the day Cooper was reading aloud to his wife one evening from a current
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The Freelands. John Galsworthy John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. "Love moves the world." And this statement was reflected on the pages of the novel "Freeland". And no matter where the love storyset - in bright living room or in a solitary mansion - feelings and experiences of Galsworthy characters are
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The Stoic. Dreiser T. Stoic is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, whose main character is Frank Cowperwood, a businessman based on the real tycoon Charles Yerkes. Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the
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The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales" is a volume collecting ten amazing short stories, such as "Dedication," "The Captain of the Polestar," and "A Literary
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Soldiers Three. Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Soldiers Three" is a collection of short stories. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection "Plain Tales from the
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Two Short Stories. Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As the title suggests, this book serves as the collection of two entertaining short stories written by one of the most famous authors of the nineteenth century: "The Bravoes of Market Drayton" and