Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Joan of Arc, heroine and Patron Saint of France, was unique; her courage, her determination and her enthusiasm are at the core of prodigal transformation. In under two years a shy, young, illiterate girl discovers her warrior side as she fights for her ideals until death.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: After nineteen years in prison for having stolen some bread, Jean Valjean, thanks to his meeting with the bishop of Digne, Monsignor Myriel, decides to dedicate the rest of his life to doing good. Some years later, he becomes the Mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer under the name of Monsieur Madeleine. Unfortunately the past catches up with him and he is forced to flee to Paris.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «KET Practice Tests» provides complete exam preparation and revision for the Cambridge ESOL updated Key English Test. «KET Practice Tests» improves students’ exam techniques and readiness. It contains five practice tests which help learners master both the strategies and skills they need in order to do well in the exam. The Teacher’s Book contains answer keys and recording scripts, a guide to…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Brother and sister, Lola and Alejando – who are students at the University of Saragozza – decide to go to San Sebastián to the International Film Festival. In the middle of all the famous actors, film premieres, Lola, who dreams of becoming a journalist, and her brother investigate the disappearance of the famous actress, Gloria Borja.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Guillermo and Lucía are 15 years old and they live in Madrid. They are best friends and share everything. One day Max, while waiting for Lucía at the cinema, is approached by a stranger who gives him a mysterious envelope. What is in the envelope? Is the stranger really a member of the Spanish Secret Service, as he claims? Guillermo and Lucía turn into detectives and start…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Bathsheba, a beautiful Weather Witch, lives with her cat, Cobweb, on top of a high mountain near the village of Sunnyville. The people in the village don't know about Bathsheba or about the important job she does for them. Her life is peaceful until one day she goes down to the village and meets some of the people there, including a very special soldier...
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: What is Camellia sinensis? How did tea help to start the American Revolution? And how are monkeys connected to tea? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the story of one of the world's most popular drinks.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Learn about the more important musical styles in Europe and North America from the middle ages to today. Read about the history of the minstrels and troubadours, ragtime music, jazz, blues, rock, pop, rap, grunge and many more. It’s all here.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The READING & TRAINING series is composed of illustrated graded readers, aimed at teenagers and adults. The readers are graded into six levels — from elementary/pre-lower intermediate to post-intermediate — according to internationally recognised criteria.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Jim is a young British officer on the passenger ship Patna. During an accident at sea in the Indian Ocean, Jim follows the captain and abandons the sinking ship and its passengers. Jim must face a court trial for this act of cowardice, which will torment him all his life. At the trial Jim meets Marlow, an older sea captain, who helps him find work. But Jim is always restless. He moves to Malaysia…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Ali Baba’s life changes on the day he sees forty thieves hiding their treasure in a secret cave and hears the thieves’ leader say the words 'Open Sesame’ to get into the cave. But before Ali and his family can enjoy the riches, Ali finds there are many dangers they have to face…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Sein Freund, der Major, fuhrt ein zufriedenes Leben auf dem Land. Er arbeitet den ganzen Tag, er trifft Freunde und diskutiert uber Reformen. Aber es gibt keine Liebe in diesem Leben. Oder doch? Wer ist Brigitta, die Nachbarin, die dort frei auf ihrem Bauernhof lebt? In dieser Novelle fuhrt Adalbert Stifter einen neuen Frauentyp in die deutschsprachige Literatur ein: die ungebundene, beruflich…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Chez les Silberhaus, tout est pret pour le reveillon de Noel. L’oncle Drosselmayer arrive a la fete avec des cadeaux pour tous les invites. Il offre des soldats de plomb a Fritz et un casse-noisette a Marie. Pendant la nuit, il se passe des choses etranges dans la maison: les objets grandissent et les jouets s’animent. Marie decouvre alors que son casse-noisette est bien plus qu’un simple jouet…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: D Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King s Musketeers — Athos, Porthos and Aramis defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu. Follow the Muskateers fascinating adventures during a difficult period of 17th-century.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: After 18 years of imprisonment in the Bastille, the devoted Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter, the gentle Lucie, in England. There she captures the hearts of two very different men--Charles Darney, a banished French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a well-known English lawyer, both of whom must compete for her love. With a twisting plot of revenge, corruption, and love played out under…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Introduction, notes and activities by Dorothea Barret In the second half of the 19th century, the British Empire, was at its greatest. Imperialism left a lasting mark on Great Britain itself as well as on the ex-colonies. The atmosphere and issues of this bygone age are evoked in Empire Tales, an anthology of stories by some of the most outstanding British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Horror ('The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'William Wilson'), detection ('The Murders in the Rue Morgue') and the bizarre ('The Devil in the Belfry') all feature in this selection of eight…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: This collection of three of Stevenson's stories ('Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'Markheim' and 'The Body Snatcher') analyses the moral fibre of Victorian society and highlights the conflict between good and evil: man’s social, civilised, rational being versus his egotistic, instinctive, sensual self.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Art contrasted with Nature, and outer ugliness with inner beauty, are just two of the themes featured in this collection of 6 tales, including The Canterville Ghost, The Remarkable Rocket, and — for all those who «have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy» — The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant.»
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Who was a spy for Queen Elizabeth I's secret service? Which writer kept a bear in his room at Cambridge? Who wrote poems about the Easter Revolution in Ireland? Follow the fascinating lives of some of the most important British novelists, poets and playwrights from Shakespeare to Graham Greene, and discover more about different periods of literature in British history.