Penguin A Good Man in Africa Бойд Уильям

'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' • British soldier, East Africa, 1914 • On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa a ridiculous and utterly ignored campaign is being waged - one that continues after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell the participants to stop • As the conflict sweeps up Africans and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Woman in White, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past. One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious woman in white. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie

The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse, this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism

Роман Уилки Коллинза «Женщина в белом» начинается с жуткой встречи Уолтера Хартрайта с загадочной женщиной, одетой в белое, на залитой лунным светом лондонской дороге. Уолтер получает место учителя рисования в имении Фэрли, казалось бы, что может произойти, но Уолтера вовлекают в зловещие интриги сэра Персиваля Глайда и его «очаровательного» друга графа Фоско, любителя белых мышей, ванильных конфет и яда. Безумие бродит по коридорам английских загородных и сумасшедших домов • Книга на английском языке • "The Woman in White" famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison

An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destruction. Like the other two volumes of Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy, The Soft Machine and Nova Express, it is today as fresh in its form and as urgent in its message as it has ever been • Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition reveals how the book's cultural reach has expanded with the viral logic of Burroughs' multi-media creative methods

Леонт, король Сицилии, обвиняет свою беременную жену Гермиону в измене и заговоре и бросает ее в тюрьму. Рожденную в заключении девочку приказано отвезти в лесную чащу и бросить умирать. Однако девочка выживает: ее находит и спасает богемский пастух. Спустя годы она встречает родного отца, и теперь у нее есть возможность исправить несправедливость… • «Зимняя сказка» – это одна из поздних пьес Шекспира. По ее мотивам было снято несколько фильмов • Книга на английском языке • A jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on trial. The child is abandoned to die, but when she is found and raised by a shepherd, it seems redemption may be possible. A bravura blend of tragedy, comedy and romance, Shakespeare's emotionally potent late play explores artifice and nature, mortality and renewal, and the destructive and consoling effects of time

Братья-близнецы, разлученные в самом детстве, встречаются спустя много лет. Из-за того, что они как две капли воды похожи друг на друга, возникает путаницы • «Комедия ошибок» – это фарсовая комедия, одна из самых коротких пьес Шекспира, впервые опубликованная в посмертном фолио. Книга станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников творчества классика • По мотивам произведения были сняты десятки фильмов • Книга на английском языке • Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds. Joyful, mystical and brilliantly farcical, Shakespeare's shortest play is an early romantic comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion

Макбет встречает трех ведьм, обладающих пророческим даром. Они говорят ему, что в будущем он станет королем Шотландии. Неужели они не врут? Сможет ли Макбет стать королем? • Серия Penguin Readers рассчитана на людей, изучающих английский язык в качестве иностранного. Книги серии содержат адаптированные тексты, новые иллюстрации, практические упражнения и ссылки на дополнительные онлайн-ресурсы. В серию, которая позволяет изучающим английский язык читать книги на языке оригинала, входят известные классические произведения, современная проза и нон-фикшн • Книги серии распределены по уровням в соответствии с Общеевропейскими компетенциями владения иностранным языком (CEFR). Лексические и грамматические задания помогают отточить свои навыки и подготовиться к экзаменам на знание языка

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby and Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond, ranked over 400 in the world,on the European Tour. Thisis the inside story of the geniuses,the cheats, the gurus and the hangers-on that make up the golf scene

One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by anyone's standards, and an ominous portent • For Lorimer works in the only-slightly corrupt business of financial adjusting, and he is about to learn that it is much uglier - and even more crooked - than he ever imagined. Suddenly, he's being unfairly blamed for all kinds of irregularities. Next, his life is threatened. And, lastly, he's coming to realise that the life he has led till now - the one someone wants to rub out - is one big fat lie

On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps • But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn't right. That behind Mallabar, and his obsessive work, there lies another, more sinister truth: one that might also help explain Hope's reasons for leaving England