Найти книгу: "Miss or Mrs.?, The Haunted Hotel, and The Guilty River"

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Today, readers enjoy Collins' intricate and suspenseful plots, and his penetrating social commentary on the plight of women and domestic issues of the time. Unfortunately Collins suffered from rheumatic gout, for which he took the opiate laudanum, and which eventually led to paranoid delusions and the deterioration of his health. This collection of novellas, although varied in style and plotline, is a wonderful example of some of Wilkie's later work, as it became increasingly laden with social commentary. «Miss or Mrs.?» is a fast-paced story of malice, blackmail, marriage and fraud; «The Haunted Hotel» is perhaps Collins' last lucid work, its eerie and suspenseful story influenced heavily by Collins' severe opium addiction; and «The Guilty River» is the psychological and violent tale of two men in love with the same woman.

Полный вариант заголовка: «A narrative of the expedition to the rivers Orinoco and Apure, in South America : which sailed from England in November 1817, and joined the patriotic forces in Venezuela and Caraccas / by G. Hippisley».

Lift Trap. Holidays Russian-Style. Hotel Detective / Пленники лифта. Отпуск по-русски. Детектив из отеля Обучающие пьесы Языки: Английский, Русский Авторы: Юлия Кузьменкова, Андрей Кузьменков Исполнители аудиокниги: В. Кулешов, Ю. Кузьменкова, О. Комков Описание: Учебное аудиопособие содержит три пьесы для обучающего английского театра, записанные с участием преподавателей-актеров, краткие сведения о межкультурных различиях в коммуникативном поведении россиян и их англоговорящих партнеров. Акценты делаются на сочетание традиционных аспектов аудиторной работы и внеаудиторной, собственно «театральной» деятельности, а также на обучение эффективному межкультурному общению, как участников, так и зрителей. Для старших школьников и студентов, имеющих уровень не ниже (pre)intermediate.

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