Stephen Colbourn – лучшие книги

"Sir Charles died of a heart attack," said Dr Mortimer. "He was running away from somethin when he died." "What was he running away from?" asked Holmes. "I looked at the ground where Sir Charles had walked," said Dr Mortimer. "There were footprints on the ground. They were not the footprints of a man. They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

A gothic romance set in the twilight world of Paris in the 1870s.

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Языковой уровень: A1

В этой мистической истории рассказывается о том, как морской капитан и его команда обнаруживают пустой корабль. Капитан заходит на судно, и ему открывается страшная тайна.

Три коротких рассказа всемирно известного писателя XIX века: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire и Lord Arthur Saville's Crime.

Presents a folk tale of Robin Hood and his band of merry men, who rob from the rich to give to the poor. This work is intended for teenage boys.

When Arthur pulls the sword from the stone, he becomes king of the land of Logres. Arthur chooses the beautiful Guinevere to be his queen and builds a castle at Camelot. Here he is joined by the famous Knights of the Round Table, whose adventures include slaying dragons, rescuing maidens and fighting the spells of Arthur's half-sister, the cruel sorceress, Morgana.

'Sometimes I wake up at night. I can hear the sea around Treasure Island. I can hear the voice of Long John Silver's parrot calling - "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" '

Jim Hawkins tells the story of the journey on the ship, the Hispaniola, to Treasure Island. And he tells of the battle with the pirates to get Captain Flint's gold.

1775. Two cities - London and Paris.
The Prisoner from 105 North Tower of the Bastille Prison is free.
But why was the prison in Paris for eighteen years?
He leaves France and travels to England. Will he and his family be safe from their enemies?

I am Taita the Slave. I was sold into slavery when I was a child, and I grew up as a slave in the land of Egypt. I was the slave of Lord Intef - the most powerful man in Upper Egypt. Lostris was his only child and it was my job to protect her. On the day when my story begins I was thirty years old. That day, the River Nile was shining as brightly as metal under the desert sun.
I was sitting in a long boat - a galley. The men who rowed the galley were soldiers of Pharaoh Mamose, King of Egypt. Lostris sat in the bow of the boat. She was fifteen years old and she was very beautiful. And that day she was also very happy. She had never come with us on a hippopotamus hunt before.

Retold by Stephen Colbourn.