Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Cast away for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, "Robinson Crusoe" is one of the most enduring novels in the English language and its unique blend of extraordinary realism and brilliant drama continues to ... |
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From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly recorded by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last ... |
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Defoes schon damals weltbekannten Roman nannte Goethe "das Entzücken und das Evangelium der Kinder". Doch der Bericht des erfolgreichen und abenteuerlustigen Bürgers Crusoe, der nach gefahrvollen Reisen allein auf einer einsamen Insel strandet und 28 Jahre seines Lebens dort verbringt, ist weitaus mehr als ein Kinderbuch und zieht auch heute noch Leser jeden Alters in seinen Bann. "Robinson Crusoe", 1719 erstmals erschienen, gilt mit seiner ausgewogenen Komposition und präzisen Sprache als Markstein der modernen europäischen Literatur. ... |
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Illustrated by John Dillow and Peter Harper. ... "I knew that I was hundreds of miles from the places merchant ships went. I was sure that I was going to die on this lonely island, completely alone. When I thought about this the tears ran down my face. I felt sorry that I had been born." From the Book The young Robinson Crusoe ignores his father's advice and decides to become a sailor. But Crusoe is soon caught up in violent storms and finds himself shipwrecked on a remote island. He will have to live on this island for the next twenty-eight years. This book is in British English. Here you can find: ... |
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Книгата е част от поредицата за детско-юношеска класика - "Златно перо". ... Младият Робинзон не изпитва влечение към учението и труда. Единствената му мечта са далечните морски пътешествия. Един ден той най-сетне отплава на борда на търговски кораб към африканския бряг. Ала Робинзон не знае, че вместо вълнуващи приключения, го очаква пленничество при пирати, робство и страховити морски бури. А какво ли крие самотния остров, на чийто бряг го изхвърлят морските вълни? ... |
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Единственият пълен и точен превод на първото английско издание на романа от 1719 година. ... "Благодарение на гениалното си отношение към факта Даниел Дефо постига ефекти, възможни единствено за великите майстори на описателната проза." Вирджиния Улф "Появата на истинския "Робинзон Крузо" несъмнено ще ни позволи да общуваме по нов начин с безсмъртното произведение. Макар и късно, то ще заеме своето място в нашата култура и ще ни поднесе по-точна и вярна представа за усилията на своя автор и за многостранната си роля в историята на световната култура и литература. За читателите срещата ще бъде ... |
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Based on the story of Daniel Defoe. Retold by Diane Mowat. ... "I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!" By the book In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy? Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from ... |
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Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own ... |
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Учебникът развива четирите езикови умения и постига целите на програмата чрез разнообразни дейности, в които учениците: четат и слушат неадаптирани художествени текстове от литературната класика на Великобритания и САЩ и после ги обсъждат в контекста на съвременната популярна култура (поп и рок музика, кино, комикс, социални мрежи и пр.); обогатяват речника си с лексика, която ще им помогне да следят световни медии, като BBC и CNN, The Times и The Guardian, както и да гледат без субтитри дори най-сложните филми; се научават да изразяват убедително на английски език своята естетическа и гражданска позиция по въпроси, ... |
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Quick reads by great writers. To buy books would be a good thing, observed Arthur Schopenhauer, if we also could buy the time to read them. All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or two or three) in just one sitting. Quick Reads are bite-sized books by bestselling writers and well-known ... |
