Penguin The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Таунсенд Сью

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ? is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life.Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared

Friday January 2nd • I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home • Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents' marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual.' • Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend's comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers

Суббота, 25 января • 10 часов утра. Я болен от всех этих волнений, слишком слаб, чтобы много писать. Никто не заметил, что я не завтракал • 2 часа дня....... Возможно, когда я стану знаменитым и мой дневник будет обнаружен, люди поймут, как мучительно быть 13-летним нераскрытым интеллектуалом • 6 вечера, Пандора! Моя потерянная любовь! Теперь я никогда не буду гладить твои волосы цвета патоки! (Хотя мой синий фломастер все еще в вашем распоряжении.) • "Тайный дневник Адриана Моула" Сью Таунсенд - это веселый взгляд на проблемную жизнь подростка- "непонятого интеллектуала" • Книга на английском языке • Saturday January 25th • 10 a.m. I am ill with all the worry, too weak to write much. Nobody has noticed I haven't eaten any breakfast • 2 p.m....... Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered people will understand the torment of being a 13 3/4-year-old undiscovered intellectual

The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old . . . 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home 'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4 Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon. Such anarchism infuriates the care home director but pleases Eefje, the woman who makes Hendrik's frail heart palpitate. If it's never too late to have fun, then can it ever be too late to meet the love of your life? 'So much more than just a comedy' John Boyne 'A story with a great deal of heart' Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project 'Amusing and wickedly accurate

It's Sunday, July 18th. My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy. And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story • A man can dream, can't he? • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here

"Признания Адриана Моула" - роман английской писательницы Сью Таунсенд • Адриан Моул - взрослый человек. По крайней мере, так написано в его паспорте. Но жизнь дома, прижимание к своему потертому плюшевому кролику "Пинки", работа разносчиком бумаг в "Лани" и тоска по любви всей его жизни, Пандоре, доказали ему, что взрослая жизнь - это не совсем то, чего он ожидал. И все же, не имея трудностей современной жизни, о чем тогда мог бы писать поэт-интеллектуал… • Книга на английском языке • Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary

This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend's hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige

Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong • When rumours of an assassination plot against the Queen begin to circulate, Alice is immediately assigned to the case • However, she won't be working alone • Enter Daniel Bixby. Unflappable master spy and Alice's greatest rival • Together they must assume the identity of husband and wife in order to gain access to the traitor party • Alice is determined to remain professional. This is work after all • But when an attraction starts to grow there may be more at stake than just the throne

Evie Hamilton's biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit in a manicure on her way to fetch her daughter from clarinet lessons • Little does she know that her charmed and happy life is about to be turned upside-down • For one sunny morning a letter lands on Evie's immaculate doormat. It's a bombshell, knocking her carefully arranged and managed world completely askew as it threatens to sabotage all she holds dear • What will be left and what will change forever? • Is Evie strong enough to fight for what she loves? • And can her entire world really be as fragile as her best china?

The troubled life of Adrian Mole continues in this sequel to "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4". Adrian continues to struffle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life