"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the "phony" aspects of society, and the "phonies" themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in ... |
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On a day in 1821, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a wife and mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontes of Haworth then? Branwell died young, but his sisters became famous writers. But they did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven ... |
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And other Illustrated classics. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. ... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl. This story features the adventures on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often try to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the ... |
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Рисувателна книжка. ... Ада Митрани завършва Художествената Академия през 1979 г., специалност илюстрация и оформление на книгата. Тя бързо става търсен илюстратор на детски книжки и на поезия за деца и за възрастни. Нейни илюстрации печелият награди на международни конкурси и биеналета. Паралелно с това, Ада се установява като един от най-известните графици на 80-те години в България. Нейни литографии и офорти печелят множество награди на конкурси и биеналета. През 1986 г. тя се изселва в Америка, където живее до този момент. В Америка, тя продължава да рисува - става илюстратор на седмичен вестник в Минеаполис, ... |
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Книгата съдържа пиесите: Само за членове “Частното око” намига два пъти ... Богомил Герасимов - писател и дипломат, бивш посланик в Мексико (1976–1982) - има честта да уведоми своите читатели и приятели, че се е самоназначил за извънреден и пълномощен посланик на България в Отвъдното. Постът ще заеме, когато напусне този свят. По този начин, както показва и съдържанието на неговата пиеса „Само за членове”, той за първи път в историята поставя началото на една нова практика, непозната в дипломатическата традиция. Той обявява също, че няма да заеме своя пост с излизането на тази книга и ще направи всичко възможно да ... |
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Based on the story of Mark Twain . Retold by Diane Mowat . ... Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn , that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim... Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1 - C1 of the ... |
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Meg Long's "Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves" is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer, but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide? ... |
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Мрачен, епичен и поразително оригинален дебют; писател от класата на ДЖ. Р.Р. Мартин и С. Ериксън ... Майтанет, новият шриах на Хилядата храма, е призовал последователите на Късния пророк на Свещена война срещу езичниците фаними. В похода към свещения град Шимех се включват доскорошни непримирими врагове. И всеки от тях има свои собствени причини да тръгне срещу фанимите. Амбицията, подозренията и алчността заплашват да провалят похода. Докато от дивия, непознат север не се появява Анасуримбор Келхус. С помощта на тайното изкуство на дуниайните неочакваният съюзник завладява умовете и сърцата на воините, които го ... |
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They want to find me . I will find them first. He's found me and I' slipping away and he's never going to let me go... Juliette has escaped The Reestablishment. She has found the headquaters of the rebel resistance - and the people like her. Gifted people. She is free from the threat of being used to kill others, and free to love Adam, the man who saved her. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch. Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible. Haunted by her past and terrified of her future, Juliette must choose between her heart - and the life of the one she loves. & ... |
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It is getting dark over the mountain lake; the passing winter freezes the quiet northern land. A little boy dressed in fur, girded with a sword decorated with a raven head, struggles with uneven terrain, mud, and unbearable load - the remains of his father - Edsgar, the mighty warrior of the Great North. A stream of white light splashes from the sky to the funeral pyre. A ringing sound fills everything around. It is as if billions of metal particles are sprinkled on a steel shield. Edsgar bids farewell to Erik, the lovely Valkyries take on the spirit of the warrior, and he flies with them to the gates of Valhalla to take ... |
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The Juvenilia and shorter works of Jane Austen with an afterword by Kathryn White. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites, representing what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket. It contains not only her hilarious History of England, illustrated by her favourite sister Cassandra, but the unfinished Sanditon, the novel of her maturity on which she was working at her death, aged 42. Also included are the two epistolary novels, "Lady Susan" and "Love and Friendship" [sic], and other, shorter works: "The Watsons", & ... |
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Учебникът "¡Nos vemos! Paso a paso" е разработен за интензивно обучение по испански език. Ето защо тук съдържанието е изключително систематизирано. Основната разлика между него и стандартния учебник е, че методиката за обучение е въз основа на модулна система, при която всеки модул покрива дадено ниво на знания. Включените материали от "¡Nos vemos! Paso a paso" - Модул 2 (A1.2) осигуряват обучение за много кратък период от време (30 - 40 учебни часа). Изданието дава интензивна, но и ефективна подготовка, като комбинира учебник и учебна тетрадка в едно книжно тяло. Към учебника е включен и ... |
