He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.
AUDIOBOOK: Philip Pullman - Lyra's Oxford (Unabridged)
Филип Пуллман "Оксфорд Лиры" Четвертая книга серии "Темные начала" Аудиокнига (полная версия).
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Mystery in London - Oxford Bookworms Starters
Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes?
OXFORD SUPERLEX - English-Spanish, French, German
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3. The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary
The Oxford Bilingual Dictionaries on CD-ROM is
a series of bilingual electronic dictionaries which includes such
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An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often explosively so. Others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers in the English-speaking world from Chaucer to the present acting both unpredictably, and deeply in character.
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