Black Cat (123 kníh )
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Rober Louis Stevenson Reading & Training: Kidnapped + CD-ROMWhen his father dies, David Balfour discovers he has inherited the family home near Edinburgh. But his Uncle Ebenezer also wants the house and puts David on a ship to America. The story follows David’s adventures across land and sea as he learns...
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Rudyard Kipling Reading & Training: Kim + CDKim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India...
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Thomas Malory Reading & Training: Le Morte D´Arthur + CDLe Morte d’Arthur tells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The tale begins with Arthur’s birth, his education, and his rise to the throne. It also recounts the tragic love story of Sir Lancelot and Guinevere...
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Joseph Conrad Reading & Training: Lord Jim + CDA young man named Jim decides to go to work at sea. He quickly rises through the ranks. Jim has a cherished dream. He wants to become a real hero. Finally he gets his a long-awaited chance. One day, during a flight an unexpected emergency occurs...
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Charlotte Brontë Reading & Training: Lord Jim + CDJane Eyre + CDPlain orphaned Jane Eyre lives unwanted with her aunt and cousins until she is sent away to school. There, hungry and humiliated, she grows and studies. When Jane leaves school to work as a governess at the aristocratic Thornfield Manor owned...
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William Shakespear Reading & Training: Macbeth+CDMacbeth is loyal and courageous, and is a friend of King Duncan’s. However, after a battle he encounters three witches who tell him that one day he will be King of Scotland. Soon his obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s...
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Andrea M. Hutchinson Reading & Training: Missing in Sydney + CDThree best friends are travelling around Australia in search of adventure before they start university back home in the UK. But after celebrating Christmas Day on Sydney’s Bondi Beach one of them goes missing. Lisa is just an...
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William Shakespear Reading & Training: Much Ado About Nothing + CDIncludes the unabridged text of Shakespeare's classic play plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes scene-by-scene summaries...
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Gina D. B. Clemen Reading & Training: Murder At Coyote Canyon + CD-ROMThe Chumash are American Indians who live in California. When an unscrupulous property developer starts building new homes in Coyote Canyon, the Chumash become angry – the development is located on their ancient cemetery...
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Jane Austen Reading & Training: Northanger Abbey + CDCatherine Morland is going on her first visit to the city of Bath. She is seventeen and comes from a small, quiet town in the English countryside. She likes Gothic novels. When she makes friends with the handsome young Henry Tilney and his...
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Samuel Richardson Reading & Training: Pamela + CDPamela is a maid in a big country house. But when her mistress dies, Pamela is left at the mercy of Mr B, her mistress’s son, who sets out to seduce her. Although she likes Mr B, Pamela is determined to keep her virtue. Will Mr B succeed, or will...
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William Shakespear Reading & Training: Power And Ambition in ShakespeareA power-hungry Richard III, a remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Prince Hamlet, a powerful Julius Caesar, and a ruthless and ambitious King Henry V: various aspects of power and ambition feature in these five stories based...
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Jane Austen Reading & Training: Sense and Sensibility + CDElinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, charming, and beautiful, but there the similarities end. Elinor values propriety and common sense; she is prudent and cautious with a strong sense of duty. Marianne...
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George Eliot Reading & Training: Silas Marner + CDSilas, a weaver, is betrayed by his best friend and the woman he loves. He loses all faith in humanity and moves to the village of Raveloe. There he lives a solitary life, working and hoarding his gold coins, until one day his gold is stolen…
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D. H. Lawrence Reading & Training: Sons and Lovers + CDMrs Morel is a strong, intelligent, domineering woman. Her marriage to a miner is not a happy one. She is antagonistic to her husband and gives all her love to her sons. The Morels’ younger son Paul grows up close to his mother. As an adolescent and...
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J.S. Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne Reading & Training: Stories Of Ghosts and Mystery + CDThree authors reveal the obscure corners of the occult. In Le Fanu’s Dickon the Devil the narrator discovers that the sinister ghosts of the past have never left Barwyke Hall. Rudyard Kipling tells the story of a man who disappears mysteriously...
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Edith Wharton Reading & Training: The Age of Innocence + CDAs the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer was born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. Though sensitive and intelligent, Archer respects the rigid social code of his class and plans to marry...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading & Training: The Great GatsbyThis is the unforgettable story of a rich man with a mysterious past who hosts Long Island’s most extravagant parties, while he desperately seeks his long lost love...
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Mark Twain Reading & Training: The Jumping Frog + CDThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County depicts one of American history’s most exciting periods: the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. Come to Angel’s Mining Camp in California and meet Smiley whose frog is a living gold mine until one day...
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James Fenimore Cooper Reading & Training: The Last Of The Mohicans + CDDuring the Seven Years’ War between the French and the British, Cora and Alice Munro are on their way to Fort Henry to join their father, the commander. But their Indian guide, Magua, betrays the group to the Iroquois Indians...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reading & Training: The Lost World + CD-ROMAt the beginning of the 1900s the whole world has been explored. There is nothing left to discover. But maybe this is not totally true. The eccentric Professor Challenger says that there is a place where time stopped, where dinosaurs still live...
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George Elliot Reading & Training: The Mill on the Floss + CDThe fascinating character of Maggie Tulliver and her relationship with her brother Tom is at the centre of this moving story of rural Victorian England. As she grows up, the intelligent and imaginative Maggie is oppressed by the limited role offered...