Краткое описание: 20 Questions...Answered is a reproducible ESL/EFL reading-and-discussion text for false beginners, or for true beginners who have already had about eight months of instruction in the language. Each unit examines an element of life currently of interest. From popular interest in Dinosaurs, in the Internet, in Plastic Surgery, in Cameras in the Courtroom, and in Endangered Species, 20 Questions...Answered covers them all, and many more!

Краткое описание: 20 Questions...Answered is a reproducible ESL/EFL reading-and-discussion text for false beginners, or for true beginners who have already had about eight months of instruction in the language. Each unit examines an element of life currently of interest. From popular interest in Dinosaurs, in the Internet, in Plastic Surgery, in Cameras in the Courtroom, and in Endangered Species, 20 Questions...Answered covers them all, and many more!

Краткое описание: 20 Questions...Answered is a reproducible ESL/EFL reading-and-discussion text for false beginners, or for true beginners who have already had about eight months of instruction in the language. Each unit examines an element of life currently of interest. From popular interest in Dinosaurs, in the Internet, in Plastic Surgery, in Cameras in the Courtroom, and in Endangered Species, 20 Questions...Answered covers them all, and many more!

Краткое описание: Том первый (Становление) Истории Византийской империи", труда выдающегося русского византиста Ф.И.Успенского, охватывает первый (до 527 г.) и второй (518-610 гг.) периоды истории Византии, - от перенесения столицы в Константинополь до восстания экзарха Ираклия.

Краткое описание: Второй том (Эпоха смут) настоящего издания охватывает период византийской истории от времени правления Ираклия до воцарения Михаила III и восстановления в империи православия (VII-IX века). Крупнейший византинист Ф.И.Успенский в своем увлекательном повествовании погружает читателя в бурные события, происходившие в Византии, - борьбу за светскую и духовную власть, наполненную интригами, предательством и убийствами.

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The Mill on the Floss is the story of two conflicting personalities as they face the hardships of life. Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister and brother: Maggie is passionate, impulsive, intelligent and often makes mistakes while Tom is practical, unimaginative, judgmental, honest and hardworking. Their father is declared a bankrupt. Tom works hard to pay his father’s debts and restore the family name, while Maggie is oppressed by the limited role offered to women in rural Victorian Britain. As a result of certain unsuitable friendships, she is eventually ostracised by her family and local society.

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Wuthering Heights recounts the story of Catherine Earnshaw and the adopted orphan Heathcliff’s love affair and the tragic events which follow.

Краткое описание: Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously III. He arrives at Kurtz’s station to find that the agent has taken control of the whole area. In his complete isolation from civilised society Kurtz has instituted a brutal system of human sacrifice and magic to enthral the natives.

Краткое описание: Miss Dorothea Brooke wants to do something great. She knows that she cannot do it on her own, so she marries a man twice her age who, she believes, is engaged in a great work of scholarship. Young Dr Tertius Lydgate intends to do great work for medical science, until he faIls in love with Rosamond Vincy.

Краткое описание: Beowulf is the greatest surviving poem in Old English. Set in Scandinavia, it tells a story that comes from myth, legend and history. The great warrior Beowulf comes to the help of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, whose people are under deadly attack from the savage monster Grendel. Later in life, he heroically faces a fire- breathing dragon. In this epic poem the Anglo-Saxon values of courage and pride are set against the terrifying monsters that lurk on the edges of society.