Эта очередная книга из серии `Повышаем речевую готовность на английском`, включающей в себя: `Предлоги`, `Глаголы`, `Существительные`, `Прилагательные`, предназначена для самообразования как начинающим для усвоения основ грамматики и увеличения словарного запаса, так и продвинутым студентам для повышения беглости речи за счет усвоения устойчивых выражений (фразеологизмов), объединенных в тематические блоки.
Материал этих книг, взаимно пересекаясь и дополняя друг друга, охватывает в разнообразных аспектах практически все стороны бытовой человеческой жизни.

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The Untouchable

A brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator, and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when suddenly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked.

The Book of Evidence

A former scientist who pointlessly murdered a woman during a robbery attempt describes his amoral, aimless life as he awaits trial. "Banville's style, which is spare yet richly eloquent, and his extraordinary psychological penetration, are what lift his novel to a level of comparison with Camus's The Stranger and Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment."

The Shroud

Alex Vander is a fraud, big-time. An elderly professor of literature and a scholarly writer with an international reputation, he has neither the education nor the petit bourgeois family in Antwerp that he has claimed. As the splenetic narrator of this searching novel by Banville (Eclipse), he admits early on that he has lied about everything in his life, including his identity, which he stole from a friend of his youth whose mysterious death will resonate as the narrator reflects on his past. Having fled Belgium during WWII, he established himself in Arcady, Calif., with his long-suffering wife, whose recent death has unleashed new waves of guilt in the curmudgeonly old man.

Unsettled Matters: The Life and Death of Bruce Lee

In August of 1973 while his body was being flown from Hong Kong to Seattle, Washington, Bruce Lee's coffin mysteriously opened and the dye from his dark blue suit bled onto the coffin's white silk interior. The ancient Chinese saw this as a bad omen. "The buried man will not live in peace!" they proclaimed "There are unsettled matters!" Considered one of the foremost authorities on Bruce Lee today, Tom Bleecker not only trained privately with Lee, but the two shared numerous mutual friends in the martial arts community as well as the Hollywood film industry.