Thirty Nine Steps Oxford Bookworms Libaray4 Book Tape

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194632157

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The Thirty-Nine Steps - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library by John Buchan Pdf

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running to his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?

Author : JOHN BUCHAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8973311077

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Thirty-Nine Steps(Oxford Bookworms Libaray4)(Book+Tape) by JOHN BUCHAN Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3004 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 083524749X

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Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798624398108

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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan Pdf

Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature. Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755800

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Karen Rose
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451466747

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Alone in the Dark by Karen Rose Pdf

Former Army Ranger Marcus O'Bannion and homicide cop Scarlett Bishop have met only briefly but when Scarlett receives a phone call in the middle of the night, she immediately recognises the hauntingly smooth voice asking her to meet him in one of Cincinnati's roughest areas. On arriving, Scarlett finds the body of a seventeen-year-old Asian girl and Marcus injured. A fierce champion of victims' rights, Marcus claims the young woman was working for an affluent local family and the last time he saw her she was terrified, abused, and clearly in need of help. Having agreed to meet her, both Marcus and the young woman were targeted for death. As they investigate, Scarlett and Marcus are pulled into the dangerous world of human trafficking where they soon realise they are going to have to become as ruthless as those they are hunting. Because if they don't, how many other girls may end up alone in the dark?

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798590806157

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The Thirty-Nine Steps Illustrated by John Buchan Pdf

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015078566042

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373556

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The Island of Sheep by John Buchan Pdf

A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780241512661

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Penguin Readers Level 5: David Copperfield (ELT Graded Reader) by Charles Dickens Pdf

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. David Copperfield, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. David Copperfield lives happily with his mother and his nurse, Peggotty. Then his mother marries Mr Murdstone, and he and his sister come to live with them. Suddenly everything changes . . Visit the Penguin Readers website Register to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).

Author : Rosemary Border
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194786829

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The Piano Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library by Rosemary Border Pdf

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers. When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever . . .

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786585934015

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

"The Rue Morgue Murders" is a pioneering tale in the mystery genre, in which detective Auguste Dupin uses his acute observation and logic to solve a brutal double murder in Paris, revealing a surprising and unusual outcome.

Author : Max Schweidler
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Books
ISBN : 0892368357

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The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper by Max Schweidler Pdf

Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati

Author : Bernhard Schlink
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375726972

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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

Author : John Escott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194631525

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Dead Man's Island - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library by John Escott Pdf

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens – and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.