Presentation for the 11th form "GUESS WHAT BOOKS ARE THESE"

GUESS WHAT BOOK IT IS…

In this exquisite fantasy readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. An average teenage girl, moves to perpetually cloudy Forks, Washington to live with her father.

Nothing much interesting happens until she meets the gorgeous and mysterious guy, who just might not be human. He’s having a hard time controlling the blood lust, she arouses in him, because-he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, she would rather be dead than part from him, so she risks her life to stay near him.

This is the wild, passionate story of intenses and almost demonic love between Catherine Earshaw and Heathcliff, a founding adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr. Earshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and, wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated[rɪ'sɪprəkeɪt] отвечать взаимностью, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He seeks to take a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

This classic and one of the most loved book of all times, has it all; romance, drama, and war.The quintessential American epic, sweeps across the Old South, the Civil War and Reconstruction. It’s an awesome account (рассказ) of dramatic events during the civil war and a selfish, headstrong Southern belle who draws her strength from the land. It is mostly read by everyone who believes in love. Couples will enjoy reading this book together.

Considered as the daddy of all classic novels, this novel is one of the best books of all time. The plot of the book is set in the early 19th century where a group of Russian aristocrats face Napoleon's army. While many scenes are bloody, the book excels when the chapters of human conflict arises. A masterpiece from one of the most famous Russian writers puts forward a very interesting question - how does one keep one's morals in / tact (целый, неповреждённый) when faced with a flawed (дефектный) and evil world?

One of the most controversial books. The Curator [kju'reɪtə] of Louvre has been murdered. Near his body, the cops discover a baffling (загадочный) cipher (код, шифр, тайнопись). Professor Robert Langdon is called and is stunned to see the trail of clues set by Leonardo Da Vinci. These clues are visible to all, yet no one can see them as it is hidden beautifully by the great painter. The book calls upon some of the unsolved mysteries of the church which are enough to shake the foundations of Christianity.

This book is the depiction of a woman’s quest for freedom. Having grown up as an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, a young girl becomes an independent and spirited survivor—qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?

Santiago is an old man, and many are starting to think that he can no longer fish. He has gone for many months without landing any kind of fish to speak of; and his apprentice, a young man named Manolin, has gone to work for a more prosperous boat. The fisherman sets out into the open sea and goes a little further out than he normally would in his desperation to catch a fish. At noon, a big Marlin takes hold of one of the lines, but the fish is far too big for him to handle.

This famous book is much more than the story of a blood sucking man. It's an interesting study of Victorian mortality (человечество, смертные, род человеческий) and sexuality. Jonathan Harker, incarcerated (удерживаемый) in a Transylvanian castle, has an alluring ( [əˈljʊərɪŋ] обольстительный) but terrifying dream of three women, eager to prey upon him. His host and jailer is none other than Nosferatu or the Un-Dead, controller of the wolves. It is a great horror story in itself.

The story revolves around the main character, Holden Caulfield, a depressed cynic . It further describes his life in New York City and the kind of experiences he had, marked with loneliness. This novel was amidst controversy over its depiction of profane (вульгарный, богохульный) ideas. It's something that not every reader will be able to grasp and/or hold onto, but it's something you'll never forget (even if you hate the book). The novel was first published in 1951.

This book is considered as one of the wittiest books of the 19th century. It is written by a famous Russian writer. He is not known globally but has been a major influence on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. His only novel is the story of a young man who travels to Russia buying souls (peasants who have died but are still registered as living people in the census records). He purchases them from land owners, to extract loans from government. It's an intelligent take on the rich and self obsessed society which has gossiping housewives, cruel landowners and corrupt officials. It is also considered as Russia's first official novel.

This incredible bestseller is regarded by critics and fans as the most loved fantasy book of 20th century. It single-handedly inspired more than a dozen novels which had elves and dwarfs on a mission to conquer evil and help good win. It was actually intended to be a single volume, but its division into a trilogy [ˈtrɪlədʒɪ] created the format for fantasy literature.

This devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball; to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane; to the substanceless, circus-like reality of Moscow. Its central characters exist in a world that blends fantasy and chilling realism, an artful collage of grostesqueries, dark comedy, and timeless ethical questions.

This is a science fiction novel and the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. It is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog – a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. It's the tale of an age-old curse, the hellhound, a terror that haunts the family. The mystery goes back generations and means the end of the family line but between him and a terrible death stands only one person – the greatest detective of all time.

A surgeon on a merchandising ship, finds himself to be the lone survivor after a shipwreck on an unknown shore where he falls asleep out of weariness. The next morning, he wakes up to find himself bound by tiny threadlike ropes and surrounded by a crowd of people, less than 6 inches high. After a while, “the Lilliputians” [ˌlɪlɪ'pjuːʃ(ə)n] are convinced of his being harmless to them and slowly he gets accustomed to the people and the place.

This moral allegory and spiritual autobiography is the most translated book in the French language (over 250 languages). With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries [ˈveɪɡ(ə)rɪ] of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures. This novel also includes a series of drawings. It was first published in 1943.

This outstanding classic covers racial discrimination, southern class divides and prejudices in a delicately woven tale seen through young eyes. However, the most inspiring undertone of this book is that compassion should never regard skin color. After all, you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, the novel takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.  

That fantasy novel reads like a gripping suspense-filled mystery. It is an extremely interesting and surreal [sə'rɪəl] fantasy world of witchcraft and magic. This world consists of a school where some fascinating subjects related to magic are taught with course books like A Beginners' Guide to Transfiguration and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Quidditch, a basketball/soccer hybrid game played on flying broomsticks, messenger owls, and an entire bureaucracy for magical people (which determines who gets to perform magic and who doesn't and a prison with guards that feed on human misery).

Set amidst the Second World War in Nazi Germany, The book is the story of young Liesel Meminger and her profound love for reading. The story entails her friendship with a Jewish boy, Max Vandenburg hidden away in her basement, the bond she shares with her foster parents and of course, the books she steals at every chance. It is a heart touching tale that will haunt you long after the last page. Alternate Genre: Historical Fiction

It is the longest, and most popular, play written by the greatest playwright of all the time. This play depicts the conflict of Prince who is mourning the death of his father, the King. He is angry about the sudden marriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius.

One night, the king's ghost visits the Prince. He tells his son that Claudius was the one who killed him. The Prince vows (даёт клятву) to avenge (отомстить) his father's death. He faces a dilemma, where he has to choose between personal revenge and moral values.

This book is a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence (упадок) and excess (неумеренность) and the story of a self-made, self-invented millionaire who has such obsessions as money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. It's also a moving story of star-crossed lovers. They meet five years before the novel begins, when she is a legendary young Louisville beauty and he an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while he serves overseas, she marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich man. After the war, the young man devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means – and to the pursuit of his love, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," he says admiringly.

The book opens with the wedding of daughter of the head of the most powerful of the five great Mafia clans or 'families' of New York. The Don is shot at by a new contender (претендент) for power in the city, who plans to obtain power by the lure of vast profits in the drug trafficking trade. After the Don is incapacitated by his assassination attempt, the book follows the family's progress as they must now adapt to the changing times and power dynamics and maintain the empire.