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A Death in Oxford Richard MacAndrew Cambridge University Press

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. When Dr Leighton is murdered Inspector Frank Williams and Sergeant Kate Miller set out to track down her killer. Was it her husband, her son or her colleague? All had reasons to hate her but which one killed her?
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities • When Dr Leighton is murdered Inspector Frank Williams and Sergeant Kate Miller set out to track down her killer. Was it her husband, her son or her colleague? All had reasons to hate her but which one killed her?
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities • Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier
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Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident - a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature
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A haunting tale of a fourteen-year-old boy's coming of age in a political dystopia, with an introduction by Colm Tуibнn • Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity • Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship, Death in Spring is a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence
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Чай со сливками! Школьные пиры! Дьявольские сёрферы! • Нашим главным героям предстоит раскрыть норфолкскую тайну и столкнуться со…смертью в Девоне • Суонтон Морли, народный профессор, отправляется в Девон, чтобы продолжить писать свою книгу об истории Англии. Его дочь Мириам и ассистент Стивен Сефтон собираются на Английскую Ривьеру • Морли был приглашен выступить с речью на День Основателя в школе. Однако по прибытии происходит трагедия: им становится известно о гибели мальчика при загадочных обстоятельствах. Было ли это несчастным случаем или... убийством? • “Death in Devon” – это новое приключение Морли, Сефтона и Мириам в Англии 1930-х годов. Книга входит в цикл Иэна Сэнсома “The County Guides” • Книга на английском языке • Cream teas! School dinners! Satanic surfers! • Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of … Death in Devon
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"Смерть в Венеции" Томаса Манна - это история одержимости. Густав фон Ашенбах - успешный, но стареющий писатель, который приезжает в Венецию на каникулы. Однажды за ужином Ашенбах замечает исключительно красивого юношу, который остановился со своей семьей в том же отеле. Вскоре его дни начинают вращаться вокруг встреч с этим мальчиком, и он слишком рассеян, чтобы обращать внимание на зловещие слухи, которые начали распространяться о болезни, распространяющейся по городу • Книга на английском языке • 'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann • Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel
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A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature • Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning
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Кэйго Хигасино — знаменитый на весь мир японский писатель, мастер оригинальных детективных романов, отмеченный множеством премий, в том числе номинированный на премию Эдгара Аллана По и получивший премию Эдогавы Рампо. На родине произведения Хигасино называют «умными книгами», ведь его запутанные и увлекающие сюжеты невозможно упрекнуть в противоречивости • "A Death in Tokyo" — это сложный и захватывающий триллер, в котором главную роль играет самый загадочный сыщик мировой криминальной литературы. Он переносит нас в самое сердце Токио • На мосту Нихонбаси в Токио стоит статуя мифического создания — кирина. Однажды вечером человек, шатаясь, ступил на мост и рухнул под ноги крылатому существу. Патрульный, находившийся на дежурстве, решил разбудить мужчину, который, как он предположил, был пьян, но обнаружил, что тот был ранен ножом в грудь
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In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall • The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage
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In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall • The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage
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2 348 руб.
An indispensable introduction to the evolution of Buddhist imagery from its origins in India through its spread to China, Japan, and South Asia • For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. How to Read Buddhist Art introduces this complex visual tradition to a general audience by examining sixty seminal works. Beginning with the origins of representations of the Buddha in India, and moving on to address the development of Buddhist art as the religion spread across Asia, this book conveys how Buddhist philosophy affected artistic works and practice across cultural boundaries • Reliquaries, sculptures, and paintings produced in China, the Himalayas, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia provide insight into the rich iconography of Buddhism, the technical virtuosity of their makers, and the social and political climate in which they were created
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Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to acquire works by Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso. A trailblazer in the Russian art world, Shchukin and his collection shocked, provoked, and inspired awe, ridicule, and derision among his contemporaries • This is the first English language biography of Sergei Shchukin, written by art historian Natalya Semenova and adapted by Shchukin's grandson Andre Delocque. Featuring personal diary entries, correspondence, interviews, and archival research, it brings to light the life of a man who has hitherto remained in the shadows, and shows how despite his controversial reputation, he opened his collection to the public, inspiring a future generation of artists and changing the face of the Russian art world
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