Книги іноземними мовами

Pod koniec XX wieku w domu opieki w Stanach Zjednoczonych umiera dziwny pacjent o trudnym do wymowienia dla Amerykanow nazwisku Leontowycz. Kim jest ten czlowiek? Nazywal siebie bratankiem slynnego ukrainskiego kompozytora – prawdziwego autora koledy znanej na calym swiecie jako „Carol of the Bells”. Dlaczego autorstwo tej wspanialej melodii przypisuje sie innej osobie?

Англійскою мовою з паралельним українським перекладом. Упорядник і перекладач - Анатолій Онишко.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. This novel, as well as The Sign of the Four and 12short stories about the adventures of the world’s most famous detective, were included in the first volume of the illustrated four-volume set.

For 86 days, the Ukrainian military held defenses in the surrounded Mariupol and on the territory of the Azovstal plant.

Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) is Lucy Maud Montgomery’s fourth novel about Anne Shirley according to the chronology of events. Anne is the principal of Summerside High School. She rents a room in a beautiful house called Windy Poplars. Her fiancé, Gilbert Blythe, is a medical student at Redmond College. A secret war is waged against the new principal, and Anne even considers leaving Summerside. But fate decides otherwise.

The Free Voices of Crimea profiles sixteen political prisoners — professional and citizen journalists fighting for human rights in Crimea, Ukraine’s territory occupied by Russia since 2014. Many of these people, sentenced to long prison terms on false charges, are Crimean Tatars, so the essays offer a wider historical context that explains why Crimea’s indigenous people have remained resilient against the Soviet, and now Russian, system. The book also includes letters, diary excerpts, and courtroom statements.

The Franchise Affair is a mystery novel by British writer Josephine Tey (1896–1952). The novel is based on the investigation of the crime of the Sharpe mother and daughter, accused of kidnapping a young girl. Their defense is led by local lawyer Robert Blair. The mystery of the Sharpe family’s guilt or innocence remains until the very end.

Jerome K. Jerome, an English writer and humourist, in the semi-autobiographical novel Paul Kelver (1902) details the protagonist’s rocky road through life. Paul tried to make an acting career and had several disastrous love adventures. However, meeting by chance with an influential stranger made him eventually come to a decision of becoming a writer.