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The Wizard of Oz
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CRW Publishing
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Автор: Lyman Frank Baum
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2013
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PDF, 182 страницы, 5.46 МБ
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.This is the story of Dorothy and her little dog Toto who are carried away from Kansas by a cyclone and transported to the wonderful world of Oz. She meets three companions — the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion — and the three journey to the Emerald City of Oz to ask the Wizard of Oz to give them their heart's desires, which in Dorothy's case is to return home to Kansas.On their way to Oz and while fulfilling the tasks that the surprising Wizard asks of them they encounter witches, winged monkeys, the Deadly Desert, fighting trees and magic shoes.
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20 декабря 2015
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Best Ghost Stories
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Автор: Marcus Clapham
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2010
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DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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The short story is the perfect format for traditional ghost stories. They have their roots in folklore, but in modern form they can be traced back to the romanticised writers of the Gothic tradition. Authors include Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, F. Marion Crawford, Elizabeth Gaskell and H. H. Munro (Saki). Perhaps the finest exponent of the genre was M. R. James whose sly, academic tales are well represented in this collection, as well as those of Le Fanu, whom James acknowledged as his inspiration. This is a book to be relished by the fireside, with the curtains drawn against ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night.
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delovar
06 мая 2013
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The Little Prince
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Автор: Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2010
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PDF, 136 страниц, 4.08 МБ
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'All grown-ups were once children — although few of them remember it'. A pilot forced to crash land in the Sahara desert encounters a little prince who is visiting the earth from his own small planet with its three volcanoes and a beautiful flower. Through this meeting, the aviator comes to discover many of life's universal truths which illuminate the human condition with all its foibles, cunning and eccentricities. This wonderful and remarkable book will enchant both children and adults alike. It is a strange and wonderful parable for all ages, championing the beauty and wisdom of childhood which fades when one becomes 'a grown up'. Antoine De Saint-Exupery's book has been translated into over 180 languages and sold over 80 million copies. Its magic is in its charm, its simplicity and its truths which speak to people of many nations and generations.
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kattymay
15 сентября 2015
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Robinson Crusoe
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Автор: Daniel Defoe
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 392 страницы, 11.76 МБ
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Robinson Crusoe is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism and drama, it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story, probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk, was presented by Daniel Defoe as a true account, and is utterly convincing in its topography, action and character, even 300 years after its first publication. Robinson Crusoe is a true page-turner: Dr Samuel Johnson said it was one of only three books he had read that would have been better for being longer. This new edition includes over thirty illustrations by George Cruikshank specially engraved for the 1831 edition.
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serogidin
20 декабря 2013
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Pride and Prejudice
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Автор: Austen Jane
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2003
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PDF, 490 страниц, 14.70 МБ
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In a remote Hertfordshire village, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise lies the erratic courtship of his second headstrong daughter, Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor — Fitzwilliam Darcy.
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admin
22 марта 2009
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Celtic Fairy Tales
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Автор: Joseph Jacobs
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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DOC, 243 страницы, 1.00 МБ
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Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was a noted literary and folklorist. He edited a number of books of fairy tales, including this work and its sequel, More Celtic Fairy Tales. It includes the famous stories Conal Hammerclaw, The Story of Deirdre, Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, The Wooing of Olwen, Jack and His Comrades, The Sea Maiden, Fairm Brown and Trembling, The Battle of the Birds, Brewery of Eggshells and many others. It is illustrated throughout with black and white Art Nouveau style plates and vignettes by John D. Batten.
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neo777
26 декабря 2013
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Henry V
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Автор: William Shakespeare
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Ironically these qualities are brought to the fore by the realities of war. Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, Henry V told the British people that with strong leadership, they had little to fear at a time of uncertainty.
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zorkuzz
15 июня 2013
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The Merchant of Venice
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Автор: William Shakespeare
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ
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The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money-lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but its modern audiences find it more problematic to categorize. The vilification of Shylock 'the Jew' can be very uncomfortable for a post-holocaust audience, and debates continue as to whether Shakespeare's portrayal of this complex man is sympathetic or anti-semitic. A exacting and controversial comedy, The Merchant of Venice explores prejudice and the true nature of justice.
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26 февраля 2013
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Oscar Wilde: The Complete Works
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Автор: Oscar Wilde
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 584 страницы, 17.52 МБ
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Playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was Ireland's greatest and most inspired wit. Today he is remembered for the brilliance of his writing, and this complete edition of his works contains all his plays, his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his essays, poems and stories for children, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and his more worldly stories for adults, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator, caricaturist, poster-designer and novelist, and Charles Robinson, one of the most popular black-and-white artists of the Edwardian era.
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meheech
16 мая 2014
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Othello
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Автор: William Shakespeare
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 195 страниц, 5.85 МБ
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This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious lago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. The play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of lago's attempt to destroy them.
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kolloss
06 мая 2014
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Sanditon, Lady Susan and the History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen
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Автор: Jane Austen
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ
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This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites. It represents what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket, and contains some Austen's earliest work — her hilarious brief History of England, illustrated by her favourite sister, which is a worthy forerunner of 1066 & All That, to the unfinished Sanditon, the novel of her maturity on which she was working at her death aged 42. Also included are the two epistolary novels, Lady Susan and Love and Friendship (sic), The Watsons, Catharine, Lesley Castle, Evelyn, Frederic and Elfrida, Jack and Alice, Edgar and Emma, Henry and Eliza and The Three Sisters.
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vtormai
23 августа 2013
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Twelfth Night
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Автор: William Shakespeare
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ
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Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon Malvolio, the countess' steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity. The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of Twelfth Night, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.
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26 февраля 2013
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Collected Poems
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Автор: W.B.Yeats
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2010
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PDF, 692 страницы, 20.76 МБ
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William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. Yeats, one of the few poets whose work could be compared with that of Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings. There is no better way to encounter the work of one poetic genius than as it is presented by another, and Yeats understood Blake in a way few others did.
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aero44
06 мая 2013
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Cranford
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CRW Publishing
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Автор: Elizabeth Gaskell
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2008
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PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
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admin
19 апреля 2012
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The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave
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Автор: Henry James
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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«A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children given into her charge by their uncle at his grand country house. «The Turn of the Screw» is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply 'the most hopelessly evil story of the son of a long line of military heroes who refuses to follow tradition, yet proves his bravery in a haunted room.»
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zorkuzz
15 июня 2013
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Tender is the Night
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Автор: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2013
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PDF, 423 страницы, 12.69 МБ
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«Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, «Tender is the Night» is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. In «Tender is the Night», Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture.»
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mistatwista
11 июля 2014
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The Pickwick Papers
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Автор: Charles Dickens
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 1244 страницы, 37.32 МБ
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«The Pickwick Papers» is Charles Dickens' first novel, and his comic masterpiece. We are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the 'illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded' Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future — whatever it throws at us.»
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alertmaster
07 апреля 2015
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The Little Prince
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CRW Publishing
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Автор: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Издательство: CRW Publishing, 2011
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PDF, 136 страниц, 4.08 МБ
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«The Collector's Colour Library» takes the favourite illustrated titles of «The Collector's Library» and presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced, and where illustrations and decorations were originally black and white they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. «The Little Prince» is a wonderful and remarkable book which will enchant both children and adults alike. It is a strange and wonderful parable for all ages, championing the beauty and wisdom of childhood which fades when one becomes 'a grown up'. This is a specially commissioned new translation by Ros and Chloe Schwarz. St Exupery's original illustrations have had their colours carefully enhanced by Barbara Frith.»
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kattymay
15 сентября 2016
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