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111Three Sea Stories , Joseph Conrad (1998)
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events'that show in the light of day the inner worth… 232 руб112Wuthering Heights , Emily Bronte (1992)
"Wuthering Heights" is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death… 212 руб113The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales , Edgar Allan Poe (2009)
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a… 528 руб114Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Voodoo Island , Michael Duckworth (2008)
Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the… 455 руб115Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Hound of the Baskervilles , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2007)
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is… 481 руб116Jamaica Inn , Daphne du Maurier (2008)
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible danger… 689 руб117Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog and Other Stories (+ Audio CD) , Mark Twain (2008)
Mark Twain is one of America’s most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain’s stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will… 621 руб118Hyperion , Dan Simmons (1995)
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who… 572 руб119The Knife That Killed Me , Anthony McGowan (2008)
Paul Varderman could be at any normal school - bullies, girls and annoying teachers are just a part of life. Unfortunately'normal'doesn't apply when it comes to the school's most evil bully, Roth, a… 573 руб120Princess Diana Reader (+ Audio CD) , Anne Collins (2009)
A sympathetic and informative description of the life of Britain's most famous princess. The marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles was watched by millions of people around the world. But… 573 руб
