Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: To Kill a Mockingbird / Убить пересмешника
Автор: Harper Lee / Харпер Ли
Издательство: Recorded Books
Год выпуска: 1988
Жанр: зарубежная литература, классика, драма
Аудио кодек: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 128 kbps
Исполнитель: Сэли Дарлин
Язык: английский
Размер: 687 Мб

To Kill a Mockingbird is an American classic, a timeless story of a young girl growing up in a sleepy Southern town and learning the true meaning of human dignity and justice. Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer, likes to spend her summers building treehouses, swimming, and catching lightning bugs with her big brother Jem. But one summer, when a black man is accused of raping a white woman, Scout?s carefree days come to an end. In the county courtroom, she will join her father in a desperate battle against ignorance and prejudice. When it first appeared in 1960, this extraordinary novel became an instant best-seller, winning a Pulitzer Prize and triumphant critical success. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill a Mockingbird explores the deepest roots of human behavior?innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple story. Today, it is universally hailed as a masterpiece of American literature.

Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно:The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
Автор:Neville Jason
ISBN:9626342528
Язык:Английский
Формат:MP3
Размер: 96 MB

Modern classics, Biography
Born in 1871, Marcel Proust was intent on becoming a writer from an early age. For much of his youth Proust led the life of a man-about-town, frequenting fashionable Paris drawing rooms and literary salons, which would form the background of a number of his early stories and sketches, and subsequently Proust's great work, Remembrance of Things Past, the major French literary statement of the 20th century.

Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно:Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah (Part 1 & Part 2)
Автор:Marcel Proust
ISBN: 014118034X
Язык:Английский
Формат:MP3 ~56Kb
Размер: 186 MB

Modern classics, Novel
In CITIES OF THE PLAIN (also known as SODOM AND GOMORRAH), Marcel continues his forays into the aristocratic society into which he has finally been admitted, finding satisfaction but a growing disillusionment as well, and is both fascinated and repelled by the world of the flamboyant homosexual Baron de Charlus, and reports on the intricate, hypocritical, and sometimes noble attitudes on the part of his characters toward the Dreyfus case. He also begins the doomed cycle of attraction, jealousy, and suspicion with Albertine that will characterize the next two parts of the novel. And, in CITIES OF THE PLAIN, Swann, one of Proust's pivotal characters, meets his end.

Автор: Stranks H, Stranks J.
Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: English in mind 4
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2004
Формат: МР3+PDF
Размер: 79МВ
Длительность:100мин
Качество:128кбит/сек
About the Course English in mind 4 Student's Book+CD.
English in Mind is a six-level course for teenagers. Each level of the course provides 80-90 hours of class work with extra photocopiable activities and tests in the Teacher's Resource Pack. The course can be used with mixed-ability classes. The Starter level is for complete beginners. Level 1 is for elementary students and contains a 16-page starter section to revise key langua

Автор: Филип Праус
Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: Женщина, которая исчезла
Оригинальное название: The Woman Who Disappeared
Озвучивает: Philip Prowse
Издательство: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Год издания аудиокниги: 2008
Жанр: Детектив
Аудио: WMA, 128 Кбит/с, 44.1 кГц, стерео
Размер: 76.02 Mb
Продолжительность: 01:25:07
Язык: Английский

Описание: Еще одна история о приключениях частного детектива из Лос Анжелеса. Прекрасная блондинка нанимает Ленни Семьюэла, чтобы найти свою пропавшую сестру. Вскоре Ленни становится втянутым в дело с вооруженными бандитами, трупами, уставшими от жизни полицейскими и воровщиками драгоценностей, в то время как ему приходится уклоняться от пуль, гоняться на машинах, и драться на кулаках. "Macmillan Readers" - это упрощенные "пересказы" оригинальных работ. Они созданы высококвалифицированными писателями.

Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: God Wills It!: Understanding the Crusades
Издательство: Recorded Books
Автор: Professor Thomas F. Madden
Год: 2008
Формат: mp,VBR
Размер: 212 Mb
Язык: English
Продолжительность: 8 hours and 14 mins

As late as 1518, plans were laid by Pope Leo X and the monarchs of Europe to set aside their internal quarrels and once more embark on a holy crusade to wrest the Middle East from the Ottoman Turks. Finding accord and even enthusiasm for the enterprise, all was on course for a multiyear military campaign to push east from North Africa through Egypt and south through the Balkans to squeeze the Turks in a pincer movement and finally oust the Muslims from the Holy Land. The great plan, however, died when Europe was once again plunged into internal strife with the death of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, who had been a leader for the crusade.

Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: John
Издательство: Random House Audio
Автор: Cynthia Lennon, Rosalyn Landor
Год: 2005
Формат: mp3
Размер: 316 Mb
Язык: English
Продолжительность: 4 hours and 57 mins
This isn't Cynthia Lennon's first book about her legendary ex-husband. A Twist of Lennon--a slim volume that John tried to suppress on grounds of libel--came out in 1978. But now, 25 years after his death, she finally feels ready to tell the "full and truthful story" of their life together. Why? In his foreword, son Julian writes of their being "dismissed or at best treated as insignificant bit players" in the story of John's life; it's Cynthia's goal, with John, to set the record straight. She does make a case for being more than just "the impressionable young girl who fell for him, then trapped him into marriage," and it's moving to read, in his own words, of John's love for his son. And while there's nothing new in her account of the Fab Four's rise to fame, as the greatest success story of the rock era, it's a legend that bears retelling. But most salient of all are Cynthia's sketches of pain, regret, and intimidation. John was indeed a brilliant, loving man, but he was also "passionately jealous," "verbally cutting," sometimes abusive, and often neglectful. (It is hinted that his behavior may have paralleled that of the woman who raised him, his Aunt Mimi.) Unfortunately, Cynthia's "response to John's provocative and cruel behavior was to stick by him more solidly than ever...[feeling] that if he could trust me and believe that I loved him he might soften."

Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: The History of Science: 1700–1900
Издательство: The Teaching Company
Автор: Professor Frederick Gregory
Год: 2003
Формат: mp3
Размер: 303 Mb
Язык: English
Продолжительность: 18 hours and 22 mins

In the period 1700-1900, kings and empires rose and fell, but science conquered all, taking the world by storm.

Yet, as the 1700s began, the mysteries of the universe were pondered by "natural philosophers"—the term "scientist" didn't even exist until the mid 19th century—whose explanations couldn't help but be influenced by the religious thought and political and social contexts that shaped their world.

The radical ideas of the Enlightenment were especially important and influential. In this course you see how the work of these natural philosophers prepared the way for the more familiar world of science we recognize today.

Аудиокнига скачать бесплатно: The Era of the Crusades
Издательство: The Teaching Company
Автор: Professor Kenneth W. Harl
Год: 2004
Формат: mp3
Размер: 264 Mb
Язык: English
Продолжительность: 18 hours and 22 mins
The Crusades have been hailed as the driving force that brought Western Europe out of the Middle Ages—and condemned as the beginning of European imperialism in the Muslim Near East.
But what really were the Crusades?
What were the forces that led to one of history’s most protracted and legendary periods of conflict? How did they affect the three great civilizations that participated in them? And, ultimately, why did they end and what did they accomplish?