F. H. Cornish Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Why does an old builder leave all his money to a young lawyer? Who gives a government document to enemy spies? How is a young man tricked into taking a new job? What can a foreign king do when a beautiful woman from his past appears? Who can answer all these questions?

Ik kan wel bedenken hoe jij bent op je veertigste, zei ze, met een vleugje venijn. Ik heb er nu al een beeld van. Hij glimlachte zonder zijn ogen te openen. Kom maar op. 15 juli 1988: Emma en Dexter ontmoeten elkaar voor het eerst op de avond van hun afstuderen. Morgen scheiden hun wegen zich weer. Waar zullen ze zijn op deze ene dag volgend jaar? En het jaar daarna? En elk jaar dat daarop volgt?

This selection includes five of Wilde's wittiest and best-known plays of which the title (play) "The Importance ..." is his most famous

The classic, elegant translation of Stendhal's masterful novel of ambition, desire, and politics in post-Napoleonic France.

Dr No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful girl Friday, have been captured trespassing on Dr No's secluded Caribbean island. Soon, they are fighting for their lives in a murderous game of Dr No's choosing.

"Joey, Dawson, Pacey and Jen - four teenagers living in the small town of Capeside. The friends attend the same high school. And they have the same problems - life, love, school work and parents. Jen and Joey are going to a party - in New York. Dawson and Pacey want to go too. They decide to drive to the city and suprise the girls. And that is when the fun starts!" - back cover.

1860 - England. Two frightening ghost stories.The SignalmanA visitor comes to a signal box next to a railway tunnel. The signalman tells the visitor about his important work. But the signalman also tells him a frightening story . Is the story true? Is there a ghost on the railway?The Ghost at the TrialGeorge Fotherley listens to a trail in a court of law. A man is accused of murder. Did the man murder his friend? Then George sees something strange at night. And he sees a strange man in the court. Why does the man always look at George? Why does the man never speak?

Jurský park, patřící k nejslavnějším knihám žánru sci-fi, nás vtahuje do ztraceného světa pradávných živočichů, který na Zemi kdysi skutečně existoval. V napínavém příběhu sledujeme dobrodružství, jehož počátky stojí na lidské pýše toužící ovládat živly mocnější než člověk. Příběh je vyprávěn z pohledu zúčastněných postav: protiváhou chamtivých sobců je paleontolog Grant, na kterého by se hodila přezdívka Indiana Bones, a také Tim a Lex - vnuk a vnučka miliardáře, který chce na riskantním projektu znovuzrození dinosaurů velkolepě vydělat. „Život je ve skutečnosti celou řadou náhod, z nichž každá událost může změnit všechny následující zcela nepředvídatelným až zničujícím způsobem“. Dospělý velociraptor, rychlý, inteligentní a útočný, představoval nejdravějšího dinosaura, který kdy žil. Napadal oběti ostrými zuby a silnými předními končetinami s drápy.

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth".

Het leven in Hannibal, een dorpje van minder dan tweeduizend inwoners aan de Mississippi, dat in De avonturen van Tom Sawyer Sint-Petersburg is gedoopt. De wereld van Twains jeugd, met haar trage leeftempo, gemoedelijkheid, kleinburgerlijke knusheid en plattelandsgezelligheid, is wellicht nergens beter beschreven dan in Tom Sawyer.

'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. Hemingway's comment is scarcely an exaggeration. While critics have argued over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi, none has disputed the greatness of the book itself. What began modestly as 'a kind of companion to Tom Sawyer' grew under Mark Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness. In its distrust of too much civilisation and its concern with the way language turns dreamy and corrupt when divorced from life, it is a thoroughly modern novel. And more than modern in its hero, who is, according to T.S. Eliot, 'one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet and other discoveries which man has made about itself.

Joey, Dawson, Pacey and Jen - four teenagers living in the small town of Capeside. The friends attend the same high school. And they have the same problems - life, love, school work and parents. Jen and Joey are going to a party - in New York. Dawson and Pacey want to go too. They decide to drive to the city and surprise the girls. And that is when the fun starts!

It's the end of something simple. And the beginning of everything else. Sometimes life happens even when you're not sure you're ready for it. In Capeside, the sleepy New England coastal town where teenagers Joey, Dawson, Pacey, and Jen live, this year the river is running fast. Choices will be made, and chances will be taken. Promises will be broken, and desires revealed. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24201...

A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.

A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.

A Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles and divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner (600); Elementary (1100); Intermediate (1600); and Upper (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

"Alors, tu crois qu'il n'y a que Dieu qui voit les âmes, Basil ? Écarte le rideau et tu verras la mienne." Dorian Gray prononce ces mots avec une dureté cruelle. Hallward, le peintre, s'inquiète de la folie de Dorian. Ce dernier, dans un acte impulsif, arrache le rideau du tableau et révèle son propre portrait. L'horreur s'empare de Hallward en découvrant le visage hideux de Dorian sur la toile, bien que sa beauté stupéfiante ne soit pas encore entièrement altérée. Les reflets dorés de sa chevelure et la sensualité de sa bouche persistent, tandis que ses yeux, bien que bouffis, conservent une lueur de leur ancien éclat. Le tableau, signé par Hallward, soulève des questions troublantes sur l'identité et la beauté. Dorian est confronté à une idée monstrueuse, mêlant fascination et peur, alors qu'il réalise que son image est en train de se dégrader, tandis que lui-même reste inchangé.