John Escott - The Cinema Oxford Bookworms Factfiles Stage 3 (1000 headwords) Audio Only!
For millions of people in every country, the cinema is a magic place of dreams. And Hollywood, at the heart of those dreams, is today a multi-million dollar business. But how did it all start? This book looks at the history of the cinema, the great films of the past and present, and some of the most famous stars.
Дэшил Хаммет "Мальтийский сокол" аудиокнига полный вариант, текст прилагается. Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client's sister by tailing the sister's companion. Spade's partner Miles Archer takes on the assignment, and quickly both Archer and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters, and they are all after a legendary statuette of a falcon that had long ago been made for King Charles of Spain. Encrusted with jewels, it is worth a fortune. Missing for centuries, it resurfaced in 1921, when it was covered in black enamel to disguise its true value.
The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.
Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get.
When Abraham Lincoln met the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe after the start of the American Civil War, he reportedly said to her: 'So you're the little lady whose book started this big war'. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, is credited as fuelling the cause to abolish slavery in the northern half of the United States in direct response to its continuation in the South.
David Starkey - Elizabeth
Elizabeth I holds a unique place in the English imagination as
one of the nation's most powerful, charismatic and successful monarchs. She is usually imagined as the icy, untouchable figure memorably
recreated on screen by Bette Davis and Judi Dench, but that vision of
Elizabeth ignores the turbulent years of her early life, from her birth
as the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, until her
accession to the throne in 1558 following the death of her sister Mary.
It is these early years which are the subject of David Starkey's
fascinating
Elizabeth I, written to accompany his television series about the life of Elizabeth.
