📗 The Eyes of Montezuma
👤 Stephen Rabley
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The Countess of Montalban died. She was the owner of the famous earrings 'The eyes of Montezuma'. These earrings had the two biggest diamonds in the country. Shortly before her death, the countess donated them to the museum. Somebody steals the Countess' earrings from the museum.
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👤 Stephen Rabley
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The Countess of Montalban died. She was the owner of the famous earrings 'The eyes of Montezuma'. These earrings had the two biggest diamonds in the country. Shortly before her death, the countess donated them to the museum. Somebody steals the Countess' earrings from the museum.
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📗 Logan's Run
👤 William Nolan
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Computer in all aspects of their lives manage people. They live in the city under the dome in comfortable life and spend their time in amusements. Everybody has to go through the ritual of "Carrousel". It means that if you are twenty-one years old you have to die. Logan is one of the police officers, who catch the runners.
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👤 William Nolan
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Computer in all aspects of their lives manage people. They live in the city under the dome in comfortable life and spend their time in amusements. Everybody has to go through the ritual of "Carrousel". It means that if you are twenty-one years old you have to die. Logan is one of the police officers, who catch the runners.
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📗 The Fall of the House of Usher
👤 Edgar Allan Poe
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The narrator has receives an odd letter from an old friend. The contents of the letter revealed that Usher is suffering from numerous illnesses, both mental and physical. Roderick excitedly welcomes the narrator. They are talking. The narrator has been spending several days attempting to cheer up Roderick, but it is unable. Roderick suggested that this house is making him sick, something which the narrator has already suspected.
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👤 Edgar Allan Poe
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The narrator has receives an odd letter from an old friend. The contents of the letter revealed that Usher is suffering from numerous illnesses, both mental and physical. Roderick excitedly welcomes the narrator. They are talking. The narrator has been spending several days attempting to cheer up Roderick, but it is unable. Roderick suggested that this house is making him sick, something which the narrator has already suspected.
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📗 N or M?
👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
The actions take place in the 1940s. In their youth, the Beresfords used to rest on the deserved laurels as smart detectives. Now they are tired of inactivity and uselessness. Suddenly Tommy gets a great opportunity to uncover the Nazi agents' atrocities who arranged the murder of Farquhar.
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👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
The actions take place in the 1940s. In their youth, the Beresfords used to rest on the deserved laurels as smart detectives. Now they are tired of inactivity and uselessness. Suddenly Tommy gets a great opportunity to uncover the Nazi agents' atrocities who arranged the murder of Farquhar.
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📗 Alice in Wonderland
👤 Lewis Carroll
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
In the fairy tale, the reader can see dozens of complicated philosophical, mathematical and linguistic jokes. The girl Alice spends her time on the river bank. Suddenly she sees a strange white rabbit. Alice follows the rabbit and falls into a hole. The curious girl finds herself in a phantasmagoric world inhabited by many anthropomorphic creatures.
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👤 Lewis Carroll
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
In the fairy tale, the reader can see dozens of complicated philosophical, mathematical and linguistic jokes. The girl Alice spends her time on the river bank. Suddenly she sees a strange white rabbit. Alice follows the rabbit and falls into a hole. The curious girl finds herself in a phantasmagoric world inhabited by many anthropomorphic creatures.
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📗 A Moment of Madness
👤 Thomas Hardy
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Almost all the familiar Baptists would easily agree that she is not a very interesting woman. But something begins to bother the woman. It turns out that a neighbor from her native village wants to marry her. He is much older and planned this wedding, even when she was a child. And now the parents say that she must accept this proposal.
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👤 Thomas Hardy
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Almost all the familiar Baptists would easily agree that she is not a very interesting woman. But something begins to bother the woman. It turns out that a neighbor from her native village wants to marry her. He is much older and planned this wedding, even when she was a child. And now the parents say that she must accept this proposal.
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📗 As the Inspector Said
👤 Syril Hare
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Sonya French married Robert, despite the fact that he was older. She did not love her husband. The young woman was bored with that old man. Soon Sonya had a lover - Charles Darrell. She knew that her old husband would never give her a divorce. He was very rich. They decided that killing Robert was a good idea. The plan was simple, but the young people were not experienced criminals.
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👤 Syril Hare
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Sonya French married Robert, despite the fact that he was older. She did not love her husband. The young woman was bored with that old man. Soon Sonya had a lover - Charles Darrell. She knew that her old husband would never give her a divorce. He was very rich. They decided that killing Robert was a good idea. The plan was simple, but the young people were not experienced criminals.
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📗 Playback
👤 Ian Rankin
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The murderer called to the police and confessed to a crime. The policemen found a dead body of the victim at the scene of the crime. The girl had been dead for three hours already. All clues pointed to this man, but the captain couldn't understand one thing: what the murderer had been doing for three hours, before they came?
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👤 Ian Rankin
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The murderer called to the police and confessed to a crime. The policemen found a dead body of the victim at the scene of the crime. The girl had been dead for three hours already. All clues pointed to this man, but the captain couldn't understand one thing: what the murderer had been doing for three hours, before they came?
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📗 Dant s Peak
👤 Dewey Gram
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is a catastrophe book with a very dynamic plot, which will keep you in suspense till the very end. The events take place in the city, which is situated near the volcano Dante s Peak. Harry Dalton came to this city with one aim - studying of the seismic activity. Gradually he finds the signs of the future volcanic eruption. It may lead to the end to the world.
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👤 Dewey Gram
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is a catastrophe book with a very dynamic plot, which will keep you in suspense till the very end. The events take place in the city, which is situated near the volcano Dante s Peak. Harry Dalton came to this city with one aim - studying of the seismic activity. Gradually he finds the signs of the future volcanic eruption. It may lead to the end to the world.
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📗 The Absence of Emily
👤 Jack Ritchie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
When I married my second wife Emily, I moved to her house in Northern California. The next house is almost exactly the same. It belongs to Emily's sister Millicent. She is very strong-minded and likes to control everyone around her, including Emily. She wasn't too pleased when I came and took Emily away from her influence.
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👤 Jack Ritchie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
When I married my second wife Emily, I moved to her house in Northern California. The next house is almost exactly the same. It belongs to Emily's sister Millicent. She is very strong-minded and likes to control everyone around her, including Emily. She wasn't too pleased when I came and took Emily away from her influence.
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📗 Hickory Dickory Dock
👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Different things disappear in an ordinary hostel for students. The list of stolen things looks rather unusual. After a while they find the corpse of one of the inhabitants. It was a murder staged to look like a usual suicide. Will the detective be able to save the situation? Will he show his genius once again?
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👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Different things disappear in an ordinary hostel for students. The list of stolen things looks rather unusual. After a while they find the corpse of one of the inhabitants. It was a murder staged to look like a usual suicide. Will the detective be able to save the situation? Will he show his genius once again?
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📗 The Brisingamen Necklace
👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Freya was the most beautiful out of all the gods and goddesses in Asgrad. She loved not food or weapon, but adored jewelry: pearls, gold, precious stones, rings and necklaces. Freya loved travelling to Midgard in search of countless new bracelets and necklaces. One day, Loki put on his cloak that made him invisible and followed the goddess to play another joke on her.
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👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Freya was the most beautiful out of all the gods and goddesses in Asgrad. She loved not food or weapon, but adored jewelry: pearls, gold, precious stones, rings and necklaces. Freya loved travelling to Midgard in search of countless new bracelets and necklaces. One day, Loki put on his cloak that made him invisible and followed the goddess to play another joke on her.
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📗 King's Ransom
👤 Ed Mcbain
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Douglas King has been in the shoe business almost all his life. All this time he worked for Granger Shoe – one shoe company where he started as a boy. Now Douglas is a part-owner of Granger Shoe and has a good share of it. Doug has great plans connected with this company. He is going to implement them in the near future. Suddenly two unexpected events happen and ruin all Doug's plans.
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👤 Ed Mcbain
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Douglas King has been in the shoe business almost all his life. All this time he worked for Granger Shoe – one shoe company where he started as a boy. Now Douglas is a part-owner of Granger Shoe and has a good share of it. Doug has great plans connected with this company. He is going to implement them in the near future. Suddenly two unexpected events happen and ruin all Doug's plans.
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📗 Nicholas Nickleby
👤 Charles Dickens
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A boy named Nicholas Nickleby was a happy carefree kid. Unfortunately, some time later his father passed away. After the tragedy Nicholas, his mother and sister went to London to ask their rich uncle Ralph Nickleby for help. The uncle sends Nicholas to a private school in Yorkshire. Nicholas discovers that this school is a terrible place.
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👤 Charles Dickens
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A boy named Nicholas Nickleby was a happy carefree kid. Unfortunately, some time later his father passed away. After the tragedy Nicholas, his mother and sister went to London to ask their rich uncle Ralph Nickleby for help. The uncle sends Nicholas to a private school in Yorkshire. Nicholas discovers that this school is a terrible place.
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📗 The Accidental Tourist
👤 Anne Tyler
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Macon writes guides but he hates travelling. His books have detailed instructions on how to feel comfortable on any trip. How to protect your inner world from the interventions of strangers. Some time ago Macon lost his son. This changed the life of the man greatly. His marriage gradually falls apart and turns into nothing.
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👤 Anne Tyler
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Macon writes guides but he hates travelling. His books have detailed instructions on how to feel comfortable on any trip. How to protect your inner world from the interventions of strangers. Some time ago Macon lost his son. This changed the life of the man greatly. His marriage gradually falls apart and turns into nothing.
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📚 для самостоятельного изучения английского языка, знакомства с искусством перевода и не только!
📚 в нём каждую неделю вы найдете аутентичные статьи для чтения из современных журналов, снабженные списком слов и выражений для запоминания
📚 также познакомитесь с переводом, посмотрите на его тонкости, прочтете современные стихи и познакомитесь с актуальным английским юмором
📚 полюбуетесь эстетичными фотографиями английских садов и интерьеров
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📗 Beowulf
👤 Robert Hill
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
This is an ancient epic poem, which was written at the end of the seventh century. The text first saw the world in 1815. This is a rare case when the text written in pre-Christian times has survived until the present time. A horrible monster has pursued King for over 12 years. The monster kills his strongest and bravest warriors. Beowulf decides to help the king and gathers his warriors for a significant battle.
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👤 Robert Hill
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
This is an ancient epic poem, which was written at the end of the seventh century. The text first saw the world in 1815. This is a rare case when the text written in pre-Christian times has survived until the present time. A horrible monster has pursued King for over 12 years. The monster kills his strongest and bravest warriors. Beowulf decides to help the king and gathers his warriors for a significant battle.
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