Название: The Beast of Buckingham Palace
Автор: David Walliams
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Учебная литература
isbn: 9780008385651
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Contents
Copyright
Thank-yous
These are the characters in the story …
Prologue
Part One: The Coming of the Beast
Chapter 1: Dark
Chapter 2: Lionheart
Chapter 3: Faceless Fiends
Chapter 4: A Lost Soul
Chapter 5: Unblinking Stare
Chapter 6: Dead of Night
Chapter 7: The Room With No Door
Chapter 8: Prince of Nothing
Chapter 9: Festering
Chapter 10: Metal Menace
Chapter 11: An Ungodly Hour
Chapter 12: Runaway Pram
Chapter 13: Talking toilet
Chapter 14: Eggy-wegg
Chapter 15: Ruins
Chapter 16: Spying Through a Keyhole
Chapter 17: A Beast of Fire
Part Two: Power over Life and Death
Chapter 18: The Mouth of Hell
Chapter 19: Silent Scream
Chapter 20: Porridge & Port
Chapter 21: The Vault
Chapter 22: The King’s Beasts
Chapter 23: The Impossible
Chapter 24: The Secret Passage
Chapter 25: The Shadows
Part Three: A Tower of Traitors
Chapter 26: Black Water
Chapter 27: Traitors’ Gate
Chapter 28: Sickness of the Mind
Chapter 29: Deception
Chapter 30: The Executioner
Chapter 31: Disaster Strikes
Chapter 32: Some Kind of Monster
Chapter 33: HMS Sceptre
Chapter 34: A Carpet of Rats
Chapter 35: The Opposite of Vertigo
Chapter 36: BONG!
Chapter 37: Hotty Botty
Chapter 38: Life & Death
Chapter 39: Limb from Limb
Chapter 40: Doomed
Chapter 41: Human Torpedo
Chapter 42: A Trap
Chapter 43: Deadly Weapons
Chapter 44: The Secret
Chapter 45: Storming of the Palace
Chapter 46: The Book of Albion
Chapter 47: Super-being