Angielski
George Bernard Shaw
“Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot focuses on Captain Charles Edstaston, a very prim and proper British military attaché who, in 1776, is assigned to the Imperial Russiancourt in Saint Petersburg, and brings his equally prim fiancée, Claire, with him. In the midst of court intrigue and palace politics, primarily instigated by Catherine's favored statesman and military leader, the drunken, ill-mannered, but crafty Prince Patiomkin, the imperiously commanding, yet concurrently, voraciously intimate Catherine toys with the naive arrival, questioning his rigid beliefs, leading him to drop his guarded mannerisms and, in the process, she also learns certain philosophical truths.
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. On Christmas Eve, Pip, an orphan about seven years old, is visiting the graves of his parents and siblings in the village churchyard, where he unexpectedly encounters an escaped prisoner. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and tools from Pip's hot-tempered elder sister and her amiable husband, Joe Gargery, a blacksmith, who have taken the orphan in.
Great Expectations - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
Dickens, Charles
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
Great Expectations Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
Dickens, Charles
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
Groźny cień - The Great Shadow - La Grande Ombre
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Groźny cień - The Great Shadow - La Grande Ombre książka w trzech wersjach językowych: polskiej, angielskiej i francuskiej. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) szkocki pisarz, wolnomularz, spirytysta, czołowy przedstawiciel nurtu powieści detektywistycznych, w których głównym bohaterem jest Sherlock Holmes.Doyle pochodził z ubogiej arystokratycznej rodziny. Jego ojciec, alkoholik i narkoman, znęcał się nad dziećmi i żoną. Matka Arthura dorabiała jako praczka, by wyżywić rodzinę. (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle). ""Groźny cień"" jest jednym z mniej znanych dzieł Conan Doyle'a, ale to nie znaczy, że nie warto go czytać! Jest to wspaniała opowieść o miłości i wojnie, żywo napisana. Jest to utrzymujący w napięciu połączenie powieści przygodowej, historycznej i romansu. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (18591930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, né le 22 mai 1859 Édimbourg, en Écosse, et mort le 7 juillet 1930 Crowborough, dans le Sussex, est un écrivain et médecin écossais. Il doit sa célébrité ses romans et nouvelles mettant en scne le détective Sherlock Holmes, considérés comme une innovation majeure du roman policier, et les aventures du professeur Challenger. Cet écrivain prolifique a également été l'auteur de livres de science-fiction, de romans historiques, de pices de théâtre, de poésies et d'uvres historiques."
Gulliver's Travels - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Swith, Jonathan
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jonathan Swift. Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk . . .
Gulliver's Travels Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Swith, Jonathan
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jonathan Swift Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk . . .
Charles Dickens
Hard Times - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality. Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair.