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Візуалізований довідник містить добірку найуживаніших англійських ідіом, до яких запропоновано малюнки-асоціації, здебільшого — гумористичні скетчі, що значно полегшує розуміння та запам’ятовування їхнього змісту задля влучного використання у мовленні.

The heroine of Sanditon, Charlotte Heywood, the eldest daughter in a large family of a country gentleman from Willingden in Sussex, accidentally meets the Parker family from the town of Sanditon. The new friends invite the girlto stay with them for the summer and share ambitious plans to turn Sanditon into a fashionable seaside resort.

The story Battle of Life by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812–1870) is about love and sacrifice. Two sisters live happily in an English village. Marion, the younger sister, is engaged to Alfred Heathfield, who is leaving the village to complete his studies. However, on the day Alfred is to return and marry Marion, it turns out that the bride has run away.

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) world fame and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

People have always been interested in mysterious treasures, secretly hidden innumerable riches and in it's searching, which always accompanied by a lot of adventures.

Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, the heroine of the story, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated than her sisters. However, after her aunt contracted a marriage, Emma has been obliged to return to her father’s house. She is chagrined by the reckless husband-hunting of her older sisters, Penelope and Margaret. Emma meets the Watsons’ neighbors, Lord Osborne and Mr. Howard.

Hearts of Three novel is a gem of the creative work of the American classic writer Jack London (1876–1916).

Mrs. Dalloway is the novel by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). It is a masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism.

Macbeth is a tragedy by the English writer and playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616). According to the plot, the witches herald Macbeth’s high status and welcome him as the future king. Macbeth believes in divination, his unbridled desire for power leads to a series of tragic events.

The protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amory Blaine, is a middleclass Princeton University student. He is convinced that he has an extremely promising future. But his family inheritance has dissipated, and he is unlucky in love. In a crisis, he travels from New York to his alma mater. Blaine believes that the new generation has inherited disappointment and loss of faith, but still yearns for love and success.

The edition includes two works by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930). The Great Shadow—an adventure story set in an Anglo-Scottish border village at the end of the Napoleonic era, including a fascinating interpretation of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as The Disintegration Machine—which is a fantasy story from the Professor Challenger series.

In his thriller stories Poe tries to show psychic side of the crime from the inside. He is not interested in social roots of the crime, but in unmotivated actions that go beyond normal behavior of a person in the society.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by the English writer H. G. Wells (1866–1946). A stranger appeared in an English village during a snowstorm. No one saw his face, it was hidden under medical bandages. But one day a stranger took off the bandages and... he was left without a head!

Works by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–1944) are full of almost mystical echoes with the present days.

Як лисичка та журавель, ходили одни до одного в гості.

Книжка присвячена спробі Української Народної Республіки у квітні 1918 р. включити до свого складу Кримський півострів, попередньо визволивши його від більшовиків, що раніше узурпували там владу.