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Виктор Франкенштейн хочет собрать человека из украденных частей тел. Когда ему это удаётся, результат его шокирует, и он сбегает в ужасе. Теперь одинокое и полное гнева существо хочет убить своего создателя и всех, кого он любит • Серия Penguin Readers предоставляет читателям, изучающим английский язык, возможность ознакомиться с произведениями классиков и современными бестселлерами • Издание классического готического романа Мэри Шелли в оригинале. Произведение адаптировано для изучающих язык на среднем уровне (B1/Intermediate). Сюжет подан в предложениях, содержащих до четырёх придаточных, с использованием времён present perfect continuous и past perfect, косвенной речи, second conditional. Текст дополнен иллюстрациями • Книга на английском языке

With an introduction from Haifaa al-Mansour, director of Mary Shelley • There is something in my soul, which I do not understand • Written by a teenage girl, Frankenstein is one of literature's greatest Gothic horror stories • Now with a striking new cover, discover one of the books considered to be a pioneer of YA • Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster • A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart • Shelly takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg, to the beautiful Swiss Alps, to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle, in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally • When Emika hacks into the game illegally, she's convinced she'll be arrested, and is shocked when she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year's tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job • In this sci-fi thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu conjures an immersive, exhilarating world where choosing who to trust may be the biggest gamble of all

The incredible sequel to sci-fi thriller Warcross by bestselling author Marie Lu • Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu • Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to - Hideo Tanaka. His plan: to wipe out all crime on Earth by ending the free will of its citizens • Emika is determined to put a stop to him, but she soon finds out that someone's put a bounty on her head, and her sole chance for survival lies with the ruthless Zero. But his protection comes at a price • Caught in a web of betrayal, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?

Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion . . . But never underestimate the Rebel • Eden Wing may be a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, but most people still know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother • A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But these days, he's all to ready to leave his past behind • As the two brothers struggle to accept who they've each become, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them, and Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him • At least, not on his own

Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion . . . But never underestimate the Rebel • Eden Wing may be a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, but most people still know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother • A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of • America. But these days, he's all to ready to leave his past behind • As the two brothers struggle to accept who they've each become, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them, and Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him • At least, not on his own

The explosive finale to Marie Lu's New York Times bestselling Legend trilogy - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent! • He is a Legend • She is a Prodigy • Who will be Champion? • June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic - and each other - and now their country is on the brink of a new peaceful existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government's elite circles while Day has been assigned a high level military position • But when a plague outbreak, deadlier than any other, causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities, the two are thrown back together. June is the only one who knows the key to her country's defence. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything he has

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro • The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ... and horror • Mary Shelley was born in 1797, the only daughter of writers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. In 1814 she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she married in 1816. She is best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, but she wrote several other works, including Valpergaand The Last Man

Legend is the much-anticipated dystopian thriller debut from US author, Marie Lu • The must-read dystopian thriller fiction for all teen fans of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. A brilliant re-imagining of Les Miserables, the series is set to be a global film sensation as CBS films have acquired rights to the trilogy. The Twilight Saga producers, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, will produce • Los Angeles, California • Republic of America • He is Day • The boy who walks in the light • She is June • The girl who seeks her brother's killer • On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistably drawn together, neither knows the other's past • But Day murdered June's brother • And she has sworn to avenge his death • Dystopian fiction at its very best in this thrilling instalment in the Legend trilogy

Prodigy by Marie Lu is the long-awaited sequel to Legend, THE must-read dystopian thriller novel • Perfect for all YA fans of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. A brilliant re-imagining of Les Miserables, the series is set to be a global film sensation as CBS films have acquired rights to the trilogy. The Twilight Saga producers, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, will produce • Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor • Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic

For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders • Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal – let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled ‘nutritional economist’ Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people that chewing a bite of shallot seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins? • In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis’ doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food

What’s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? • Follow Mary Roach as she investigates laser scarecrows, robo-hawks, human-elephant conflict specialists and monkey impersonators. Travel to the bear-busy back alleys of Aspen, the gull-vandalized floral displays at the Vatican and leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Himalayas. In this fresh, funny and thoroughly researched book, dive into the weird and wonderful moments when humanity and wildlife bump up against one another