One night,
four men and a boy, who are prisoners of war, escape in a hot-air balloon. They
travel for five days in a dangerous storm and then crash on a very strange island.
During their adventure on the island, that realise that someone is watching
them. Who is this unknown person? And will they ever escape from the Mysterious
Island?
Four stories
by one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century English literature.
THE
VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY THE LOVELY LADY THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER LOVE
AMONG THE HAYSTACKS
Seria
Readers stworzona została z myślą o tych, którzy pragną rozwijać
umiejętności językowe poprzez kontakt z literaturą. To największe tytuły
literatury światowej opowiedziane raz jeszcze dla Czytelników na szesciu
różnych poziomach zaawansowania oraz wzbogacone o ćwiczenia utrwalające.
Before
Superman... There was a teenager named Clark Kent..
In 1989, hundreds
of meteors hit the quiet town of Smallville. Jonathan and Martha Kent found
a small child in a cornfield. They called him Clark. Now a teenager, Clark Kent
has a lot of questions. Where does he come from? Why is he different? Why does
nothing hurt him? And how can he get the girl of his dreams - the beautiful
Lana Lang...?
The miserly
Scrooge is content with his life until he receives some unsusual visitors one
Christmas Eve. Charles Dickens' famous ghost story takes us on a journey through
the life of one man in Victorian London.
It`s
Cultural Exchange Week at Sunnydale High and Xander is excited! Buffy`s exchange
partner, Ampata, is wonderful. She's young, beautiful and... she likes Xander
too. But trouble and Ampata seem to go together. Who`s the man with the big
knife? And why does Ampata carry a mummy in her bag? Buffyand Giles decide to
find out...
"Will
always remember my visit to England and particularly meeting you and your remarkable
friend who knows so much about bats. I have bad news. I am dying and badly in
need of your help. I wish to clear the Dracula name before I leave this world.
Please come quickly. Yours, Count Dracula..."
"You
are on the Nautilus. I am its captain, and my name is Captain Nemo. This
ship, and my own life, is a secret to the outside world. I do not want to see
that world again. I live here, under the sea. You will stay here with me, but
you will have the same freedom everyone else on the ship has."
-"What
does that mean, Captain?"
- "That means you are free to see all
the wonderful things under the sea. No man in your world can ever see these
things..."
Things
have always been strange here in Sunnydale. Since Buffy arrived in town we've
been able to understand it better. But the truth can be quite upsetting. How
would you like it if your town hid the entrance to hell!
Will Uther
keep his promise and give his son to Merlin? Who will be the one to pull
Excalibur out of the rock and become the ruler who will unite England? Is
love enough to beat hatred and save Arthur and Lancelot's friendship? Will
Morgan Le Fray's evil plans succeed?