Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.This is another thrilling, triumphantly imaginative series from Garth Nix, the best-selling author of The Seventh Tower, Sabriel, Lirael, Frogkisser!, and the Troubletwisters series.

The story 'The Old Man and the Sea' is one of the most famous and beloved by the readers of Hemingway's works. It brought the author the Pulitzer Prize, and also played an important role in awarding him the title of Nobel laureate. This is a story about 'tragic stoicism' and courage, about how before in the face of ruthless fate and loneliness, a person, even losing, must maintain dignity....

A shipwreck. A sole survivor, stranded on a deserted island. What could be more appealing to children than Robinson Crusoe's amazing adventure? Set in the 17th century, and unfolding over a 30-year period, it offers plenty of suspense and everyday detail about how Crusoe manages to stay alive. Additionally, it paints a fascinating portrait of the age-including references to slavery and Europe's...

Третья книга сверхпопулярной саги "Сумерки"!Сиэтл потрясен серией загадочных убийств: это продолжает творить свою месть загадочная и кровожадная вампирша. И вновь Белле угрожает опасность...Между тем приближается выпускной бал — одно из прекраснейших собы

ЭРИХ КЕСТНЕР – знаменитый немецкий писатель, поэт, сценарист, лауреат международной премии в области детской литературы имени Ханса Кристиана Андерсена.«Эмиль и сыщики» – первое произведение, написанное Кестнером для детей. Книга до сих пор пользуется огромным успехом у юных читателей. Это повесть о совершенно обыкновенном мальчишке, с которым однажды случилась совершенно необыкновенная...

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irration

Трумен Капоте, автор таких бестселлеров, как «Завтрак у Тиффани» (повесть, прославленная в 1961 году экранизацией с Одри Хепберн в главной роли), «Голоса травы», «Другие голоса, другие комнаты», «Призраки в солнечном свете» и другие, входит в число крупнейших американских прозаиков XX века. Самым значительным произведением Капоте многие счита ют роман «Хладнокровное убийство», основанный на...

Sasha Filipenko had his own reader immediately - after the success of The Former Son and the next two novels. 'Bullying', published by 'Znamen' even before the book was published, according to the electronic portal 'Journal Hall', became in 2016 the most popular text of all Russian thick literary magazines. This means that your reader understands what to expect from the Red Cross. He will...

This textbook is the first to combine modern Russian and American approaches to teaching Russian as a foreign language. The purpose of the classes is to prepare for effective intercultural communication, which is achieved through the development of language material according to the principle of the inverted class (inverted class, graduation) critical thinking, decision-making ability and...

It's the hottest day of the year, hotter than broccoli soup, hotter than the Atacama Desert, hotter than the surface of the sun. It's just the right kind of day for a boy and his granddad to go for a picnic. But as the sun beats down, Granddad keeps having to stop for a rest, and by the time they find the perfect picnic spot, some pirates have beaten them to it. Good thing they have enough food...

He is recognized as a great inventor and one of the founders of modern electrical engineering, but it is unlikely that only these merits could generate a huge interest in both his work and his personality. He earned millions, but died in poverty, patented more than 800 inventions, but he was considered the 'greatest charlatan' and 'genius madman', was at the origins of the invention of radio...