Arthur Doyle

An incredible claim by the eccentric Professor Challenger leads to an expedition deep into the Amazon, where an unlikely group of men find themselves on a journey into unknown dangers. Will they have the skills, strength, intelligence and good fortune to survive? Do dinosaurs really exist on the inaccessible plateau? How did a human skeleton become impaled on a bamboo spike? Can humans survive in a land of such primitive powers? If journalist Edward Malone ever returns home to write his newspaper report, will it be to declare Challenger a madman or a genius?

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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers

Krupnejshij anglijskij pisatel, tonkij myslitel, obschestvennyj dejatel, publitsist, doktor meditsiny i doktor prava ser Artur Konan Dojl izvesten vsemu miru kak neprevzojdennyj master detektivnogo i prikljuchencheskogo zhanrov. Odnako ogromnyj plast ego literaturnogo nasledija sostoit iz rasskazov, ne voshedshikh ni v odin iz ofitsialnykh tsiklov: istoricheskie, detektivnye, prikljuchencheskie, fantasticheskie, rasskazy o ljubvi, khitroumnykh aferakh, porazitelnykh sovpadenijakh, morskikh zlokljuchenijakh... Est i takie, gde smeshivajutsja samye raznoobraznye temy i zhanry. Kazhdyj takoj rasskaz - nebolshoj shedevr, ne ustupajuschij samym znamenitym proizvedenijam mastera. V nastojaschem izdanii predstavleny izbrannye rasskazy pisatelja, sobrannye v pestruju, mnogotsvetnuju mozaiku, raznoobraznuju i, odnako zhe, dajuschuju prekrasnoe predstavlenie o jarkom talante sera Artura Konan Dojlja.

V 1912 g. sozdatel Sherloka Kholmsa Artur Konan Dojl opublikoval v zhurnale "Strend" roman "Zaterjannyj mir", nazvanie kotorogo so vremenem stalo raskhozhej formuloj, a sjuzhet - proobrazom mnozhestva avantjurno-fantasticheskikh povestvovanij (ot "Plutonii" V. Obrucheva do "Parka jurskogo perioda" M. Krajtona) o stranstvijakh v nevedomye zemli, otorvannye ot sovremennoj tsivilizatsii i bogatye doistoricheskoj floroj i faunoj. Kapriz odnoj junoj krasavitsy i odna zharkaja akademicheskaja diskussija zabrosili chetverykh anglichan - molodogo i mnogoobeschajuschego zhurnalista Eduarda Melouna, professorov Chellendzhera i Sammerli i lorda Dzhona Rokstona - v dzhungli Juzhnoj Ameriki. V zagadochnom i opasnom ugolke drevnego mira, chudom utselevshem v debrjakh Amazonki, chlenam ekspeditsii prishlos stolknutsja s plotojadnymi dopotopnymi chudovischami i vstupit v skhvatku s dalekimi predkami sovremennogo cheloveka... Perevodchik: Volzhina N.

An exciting account of a jungle expedition's encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment of the Professor Challenger series, follows an eccentric paleontologist and his companions into the wilds of the Amazon, where they discover iguanodons, pterodactyls, and savage ape-people.

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate on Dartmoor the locals believe he died of unnatural causes. His friend, Dr Mortimer, thinks supernatural forces may have been at work in the shape of a mysterious, evil hound that haunts the Baskerville family. It takes Sherlock Holmes, with his razor-sharp mind, to solve the mystery . . . This title is unabridged. Age 14+

Sherlock Holmes is probably the most popular fictional detective of all time. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Watson are as entertaining and fascinating today as they were to readers at the end of the last century. This collection contains 12 of his best-loved stories including The Adventures of the Speckled Band, The Final Problem and His Last Bow. This title is unabridged. Age 14+