Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as ... |
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"The Greatest Seventies Album" е компилация, която включва песни на "Foreigner", "ZZ Top", "The Stranglers", "Fleetwood Mac", "ELO" и др. Тази компилация ще ви пренесе в едно от най-значимите музикални десетилетия. ... |
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Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great ... |
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The Greatest Short Stories - Vol. 2 (Adapted Books), is a selection from the best of classic short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters in the genres of adventure, fantasy, horror, thriller mystery, romance, and realist fiction. Readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin, and The Return of a Private by Hamlin Garland. The book has approximately three thousand headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text has ... |
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Adapted Book. This remarkable collection features short stories by great nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Beginning with Washington Irving's masterpieces - The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker, the volume also includes humorous short stories by Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog) and Ellis Parker Butler (Pigs Is Pigs); fantastic and dark tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Rappaccini's Daughter) and Fitz-James O'Brien (The Diamond Lens); realistic stories by Herman Melville (Bartleby) and the Pulitzer-winner Willa Cather (Paul's Case); a crime story by Edgar ... |
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По романа на Франсис Скот Фицджералд, преразказан от Ричард Ларкман. ... Scott Fitzgerald's third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic."– Gatsby?" - asked Daisy urgently. – What Gatsby? Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago - and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coincidence that Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy - now married to wealthy polo-player Tom Buchanan?" From the novel As one man's mysterious dream moves towards its ... |
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Scott Fitzgerald's third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic. Gatsby? asked Daisy urgently. What Gatsby? Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago - and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coincidence that Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy - now married to wealthy polo-player Tom Buchanan? As one man's mysterious dream moves towards its ultimately tragic conclusion, Midwesterner Nick Carraway is drawn into the dark world of Gatsby's past and ... |
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There are films of this story. ... The Great Gatsby is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A classic story about a mysterious and wealthy millionaire called Jay Gatsby. Everyone went to Jay’s beautiful house and attended his extravagant parties. But what was Jay searching for and why is he so interested in Daisy Buchanan? ... |
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Седем билета. Остров сред океана. Шанс, който се пада един път в живота. Добре дошли в Най-великата игра, ослепителното, променящо животи състезание, организирано от Ейвъри Грамс и четиримата скандално известни братя Хоторн. Създадена, за да предложи шанс за слава и богатство, тазгодишната игра е ограничена до седем късметлии. Лийра е преследвана от смъртта на баща си и тайните, които е оставил след себе си. Тя си казва, че се е включила в състезанието заради наградата, а не, за да получи отговори относно участието на семейство Хоторн в трагичния край на баща ѝ и категорично не, за да се изправи срещу вбесяващия, ... |
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Based on the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Retold by Clare West. ... Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the ... |
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Как да променим живота си и да приложим древните тайни за успех в бизнеса ... Днес Ог Мандино е най-четеният автор на духовна литература за самоусъвършенстване в света. Неговите четиринадесет книги са продадени в над двадесет и пет милиона екземпляра на осемнадесет езика. Хиляди хора от всички области на живота открито признават ролята на Ог Мандино за поврата в своя живот и за чудото, което са открили в творбите му. Освен неговият шедьовър превърнал се в световен бестселър - „Най-големият търговец на света", творчеството му включва и други мъдри, вдъхновяващи и изпълнени с любов книги: „По-добър начин на ... |