The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London ... |
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Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their "Bummel" ("roaming or wandering& ... |
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The multi-million worldwide bestseller. "You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more."Markus Zusak, bestselling author of "The book thief". ... Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, "The Fault in Our Stars" is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and ... |
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A novel by the author of "Ellen Foster". "Kaye Gibbons shows us the secret core of a love that easily outlasts death. It's invisible mastery - but mastery all the same". Reynolds Prince ... When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other ... |
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Political turmoil, terrorist plots, and the relentless desire for personal revenge threaten to escalate the conflict between humans and vampires into a full-blown war. Special Ops Team AX will use every brutal weapon on hand--including a Crusnik, a vampire that preys upon other vampires--to save mankind. Packed with action, emotion, and artistry, this first volume of Rage Against the Moons contains tales of heroism, sacrifice, and retribution, as the AX agents strive to protect the innocent and keep the peace. ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и руски език. ... Творбите за деца, които Лев Николаевич Толстой пише, са истинска класика. Те възпитават любов към словото и допринасят за хармоничното развитие на детската личност. Една от най-известните и обичани истории сред произведенията за деца на Толстой е краткият разказ "Филипок". Един ден, Филипок останал у дома с баба си. По едно време тя задрямала до печката, а той се заоглеждал за шапката си и като не я намерил, нахлупил старата шапка на баща си и се отправил към училището. Какво се случва по-нататък, малките читатели ще разберат от тази книжка, допълнена с черно- ... |
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Двуезично издание - на български и английски език. ... В разказите, събрани в тази двуезична книга се разказва за дивите животни. Понякога те са опасни за човека, но по-често е обратно, защото именно хората причиняват вреди на животните. А те, също като хората растат, радват се, обичат, търсят си уютно и сигурно убежище и отглеждат своите малки... Ърнест Томпсън Ситън полага началото на едно ново направление в литературата, свързана с темата за животните. Никой преди него не е описвал така правдиво и достоверно тяхното поведение и навици. Тази книга е за широк кръг читатели, които изучават английски и български език и се ... |
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If you like stories about wilderness and survival full of adventures, check out Jack London's "To Build a Fire and Other Stories". This book has approximately 2 000 headwords and is appropriate for intermediate-level learners. The text has been adapted and simplified, but it keeps the ideas and flavor found in the original stories. Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist and short story writer. He wrote passionately about the great questions of life and death and the elemental strugles for survival. His stories were based on his own experiences and they appealed to millions of peopple worldwide. ... |
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This book is an adaptation of seven of Edgar Allan Poes's famous short stories. It has about 3 000 headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text has been adapted and simplified, but it keeps the ideas and flavor found in the original stories. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, literary critic and a major figure in world literature."It would also be just to say that Edgar Allan Poe sacrificed his life to work, his human destiny to immortality." Jeorge Luis Borges "It's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's strories so much ... |
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This collection contains fifteen of O. Henry's short stories. "The Gift of the Magi" is the most famous of his classic tales, but the stories that follow here give the reader a deeper and richer sample of O. Henry's storytelling art. The text has been simplified and made easier to read for the enjoyment of readers who study English. It is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners. О.Henry (1862 - 1910) was a widely popular American short story writer, famous for his dry humor, wordplay and clever surprise endings. "O. Henry's finest work... reveal such a depth of understanding of the ... |
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Translation by Angela Rodel. ... The world is a book, which someone is constantly recopying and rewriting. The world is a mirror, out of which peer ancient images. There are exercises in style. There are also exercises in meaning. "Love Stories from the Babylonian Library" is an exercise in both. In this book, the biblical tale of Bathsheba and David is retold through the idiom and worldview of six of the 20 th century's great writers - Jaroslav Hasek, Franz Kafka, Andrey Platonov, Jorge Luis Borges, J. D. Salinger и Robert M. Pirsing. Valery Stefanov is a professor of literary history at Sofia ... |
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"Друг мой, задумьıвался ли тьı над тем как оно к нам приходит - то, что должно случиться? А оно приходит не сразу, постепенно созревая в круговерти сошедшего с ума ежедневия, переполненного ложью, абсурдом и преступлениями. Созревая, оно наливается неизбежностью, напирает изнутри себя в ничего не подозревающую явь и может неожиданно прийти сначала именно к тебе, через твою фантазию о будущем, потому, что ему нужьı вестоносцьı. Оно ищет таких как тьı, пожелавших остаться независимьıми, когда уже все вокруг принимают ложь за сущую провдю, абсурд за норму и не замечаюъ преступлений." ... |
