Selected Plays

Книга для чтения на английском языке. Предлагаем вниманию любителей научной фантастики знаменитый роман Г.Дж.Уэллса "Война миров", одну из первых книг, написанных в этом жанре. Издание адресовано студентам языковых вузов, а также всем любителям англоязычной литературы и, в частности, фантастики.

О. Генри (настоящее имя Уильям Сидни Портер) - знаменитый американский писатель, непревзойденный мастер короткого рассказа. В книгу вошли рассказы из разных сборников. Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен комментариями и словарем. Рекомендуется студентам языковых вузов и всем изучающим английский язык. Комментарии и словарь Е.Г. Тигонен.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins's works were classified at the time as "sensation novels", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. John Jago's Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: A CD with a reading of the adapted story; Helpful notes on characters; Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot; A glossary of the more difficult words A woman is murdered on a train. When Miss Marple telephones her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow and asks her to go undercover as a housekeeper in a large country house to investigate the murder, Lucy quickly accepts the challenge! Who is the dead woman? What was the motive for her murder, and why was the body thrown from the speeding train and later hidden in the old barn at Rutherford Hall? When a second murder takes place, everyone at Rutherford Hall seems in danger, but Miss Marple starts to make sense of it all and sets a trap to catch the murderer.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met.