Tales of Mystery. Doyle A.C. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes short mystery stories like "The Lost Special," "The Beetle-Hunter" and "The Man with the Watches," filled to the brim with suspense, wild twists, and
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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
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Tales of Hearsay (Сборник: Чёрный штурман, Князь Римский, Душа воина, История). Joseph 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 fl uently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and
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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
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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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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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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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
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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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
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
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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
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Heu-Heu, or the Monster. H. Rider Haggard Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain is to find out after arriving in Zululand and being summond by Zikali, a Zulu Sangoma of
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Lady Susan. Jane Austen Джейн Остин - всемирно известная английская писательница, творившая на рубеже XVIII-XIX веков. Её книги признаны шедеврами мировой классики и до сих пор покоряют
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.
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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A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys. Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams College student,Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood,
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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
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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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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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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow. W. Irving Ирвинг Вашингтон - американский писатель-романтик XIX века, которого часто называют "отцом американской литературы".Многократно экранизированная повесть "Легенда
"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
Lizzie Leigh and Other Stories. Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. This volume contains ten short stories, including touching and emotional Lizzie Leigh - a poignant tale about illicit love. It deals with the story of a young girl Lizzie who commits a sin and has to deal with
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Suspense: a Napoleonic Novel Ожидание: роман Наполеона. Joseph Conrad Conrad’s unfinished novel that he was working on before his death in 1924, in which he returns to one of his favorite subjects: the French Revolution. Unlike Duel, his character here is a young Englishman named Cosmo Latham, who visits Genoa during the days in which Napoleon was imprisoned on
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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 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,
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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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A Pair of Blue Eyes. Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Pair of Blue Eyes - third published novel, but not his third novel. This is because the very first novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he destroyed the manuscript. This is the story about the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride
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Tales of Unrest. Joseph 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 prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and
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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
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The Rescue. Conrad J. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Rescue depicts Civil war that rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this
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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