Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a "heroine whom no one but myself will much like", but Emma is irresistible. "Handsome, clever, and rich", Emma is also an "imaginist", "on fire with speculation and foresight". She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding. ... |
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Two dark comedies with ghost/mystery themes which are set around the period of the American War of Independence. Ichabod Crane is the hero of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Peculiar-looking and socially inept, this schoolmaster is a joke to the people of Sleepy Hollow as he tries to win the love of the beautiful daughter of a rich farmer." - The horseman's head still lies somewhere on the battlefield - the people of Sleepy Hollow said. – Every night, he rides back to the battlefield to look for it. One dark night, Ichabod Crane - the village schoolmasters - saw the Headless Horseman. Or did he?" From the book ... |
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Адаптирани разкази на английски език. ... "Поредицата "Adapted stories" на издателство "Веси" е предназначена за читатели, които са средно напреднали или напреднали (III - VI ниво) в обучението си по английски език. Тук оригиналният текст не е адаптиран в общия смисъл на понятието. Вместо да бъдат извадени относително сложните думи и изрази, те са допълнително обяснени. Идиоматичните, фразеологичните и някои по-особени лексикални форми са преведени под черта. За научните понятия (исторически, географски, митологични и пр.) са дадени обяснителни бележки. А евентуално непознатите за читателите думи ... |
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Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. "Women in Love" is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The "progress" of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves "human"? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our ... |
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Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' ... |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair. The ... |
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Двуезични разкази на руски и български език. ... "Поредицата "Двуязычные рассказы" на издателство "Веси" е предназначена за читатели, които са все още начинаещи (I - II ниво) в обучението си по руски език. Тук оригиналният текст е съпътстван паралелно от превод на български. Като един от най-бележитите представители на руската класическа литература, Александър Сергеевич Пушкин ще положи началото на нашата поредица. Подборът на творбите му е направен, от една страна, за да бъде обхванато по-широко тематично разнообразие, а от друга, да бъдат представени типични за руския бит и култура сюжетни ... |
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern ... |
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy 's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval. ... |
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Помагалото подготвя за актуализирания изпит "First Certificate in English for Schools" от 2015 г. Към него са включени онлайн аудиоматериали и отговори на тестовете. ... Учебното помагало "Cambridge English First for Schools - Trainer" е специално разработено за успешната подготовка за изпита "First Certificate in English for Schools". Този формат на изпита е съобразен с възрастта на кандидатите и обхваща теми, вълнуващи тинейджърите. Изданието осигурява 6 пълни примерни теста по формáта на сертификатния изпит на "Cambridge University Press". Първите два теста са с подробни ... |
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Помагалото подготвя за актуализирания изпит "Certificate in Advanced English" от 2015 г. Към него са включени онлайн аудиоматериали и отговори на тестовете. ... Учебното помагало "Cambridge English - Advanced Trainer" е специално разработено за успешната подготовка за изпита "Certificate in Advanced English". Изданието осигурява 6 пълни примерни теста по формáта на сертификатния изпит на "Cambridge University Press". Първите два теста са с подробни обяснения към задачите и съвети за правилния подход към упражненията от различните компоненти. Допълнителните практически ... |
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ... |
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