Все книги издательства «Wordsworth»

The Horror in the Museum	Wordsworth
Автор: H.P. Lovecraft Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
Offers a collection of stories in which: a wax museum in London boasts an exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane; a businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment; and, a doctor plans a horrible revenge, using an insect as his murder weapon.
1682 biomg 26 декабря 2012	Скачать книгу

The Gambler: and The House of the Dead	Wordsworth
Автор: F.M. Dostoevsky Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Alexey Ivanovitch is a young tutor in the household of a general. He is both observer and actor in the tempest which surrounds his impoverished employer. Everyone is waiting for the death of Granny, the general's rich aunt, but so far from dying, she turns up alive and well, and makes her way to the casino...
1740 admin 12 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

How I Found Livingstone	Wordsworth
Автор: Henry Morton Stanley Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	DOC, 640 страниц, 1.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Henry Morton Stanley's greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone — Dr Livingstone, I presume? — is to exploration what Holmes' Elementary, my dear Watson is to detective fiction. It took place in a remote African settlement when a travelling correspondent for the «New York Herald» successfully concluded an assignment to find the renowned explorer. But the meeting, and the events surrounding it, proved to be more than just a simple news story. Stanley's accounts of his expedition not only helped transform Livingstone into one of the great Victorian heroes, but were also the springboard from which Stanley himself became the most accomplished of all African explorers. «How I Found Livingstone» was written in six weeks, published in November 1872, and had sold through three printings by Christmas. For Stanley was not only a great explorer, he was also one of the most talented writers ever to tell the tale of travel and discovery in Africa. His account of his journey through East Africa, and his time spent investigating Lake Tanganyika with Livingstone, is one of the classics of African exploration.»
2321 admin 17 апреля 2014	Скачать книгу

The Innocents Abroad	Wordsworth
Автор: Mark Twain Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party'? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World — to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the 'Old Masters'. He responded with wonder and amazement, but also with exasperation, irritation, disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour, more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.
1682 biomg 26 декабря 2012	Скачать книгу

King Solomon's Mines: and Allan Quatermain	Wordsworth
Автор: H. Rider Haggard Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom. Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition, though he has little hope they will return alive.
1799 neptun 16 мая 2013	Скачать книгу

The King in Yellow	Wordsworth
Автор: Robert W. Chambers Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
Offers a series of vaguely connected stories that is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it?
696 zorkuzz 15 июня 2012	Скачать книгу

The Little Prince and Other Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Various Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 1408 страниц, 42.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
The Little Prince is a modern parable for our time, of equal appeal to children and adults. This much loved story is joined by the following classic titles, to give a collection that has something for everyone, whatever their age: Black Beauty Little Women Alice in Wonderland The Secret Garden Robin Hood The Wind in the Willows The Railway Children The Jungle Book Peter Pan.
5106 sierra 16 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

The Mystery of the Yellow Room	Wordsworth
Автор: Gaston Leroux Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 212 страниц, 6.36 МБ 5 Оценка:
Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room? With the Surete's top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case.
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The Collector's Book of Westerns	Wordsworth
Автор: Various Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 1408 страниц, 42.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Once they had settled the eastern seaboard, the founding fathers of the great North American continent encouraged others to follow them to the land of opportunity. So the refugees, the poor and the oppressed, the adventurous and the foolhardy packed their all, they left the old-world shadows and set out with their hopes and dreams.
5106 sierra 16 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

Sweeney Todd — The String of Pearls	Wordsworth
Автор: James Malcolm Rymer Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals. One great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was — or was it possibly the work of more than one man? The author has established finally the identity of the creator of this legendary figure.
1102 stalker1965 7 декабря 2012	Скачать книгу

The Drug and Other Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Aleister Crowley Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 1 страниц, 0.03 МБ 7 Оценка:
This title is edited with an introduction by William Breeze Foreword by David Tibet. This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author, Crowley's stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the first World War. The title story The Drug stands as one of the first — if not the first-accounts of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
3 greco 3 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions	Wordsworth
Автор: Oliver Onions Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 627 страниц, 18.81 МБ 0 Оценка:
This title includes an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character studies graced with a powerful poetic elegance. In simple terms Oliver Onions goes for the cerebral rather than the jugular. However, make no mistake, his ghost stories achieve the desired effect. They draw you in, enmeshing you in their unnerving and disturbing narratives. This collection contains such masterpieces as The Rosewood Door, The Ascending Dream, The Painted Face, and The Beckoning Fair One, a story which both Algernon Blackwood and H. P. Lovecraft regarded as one of the most effective and subtle ghost stories in all literature. Long out of print, these classic tales are a treasure trove of nightmarish gems.
2274 aventuristo 23 декабря 2012	Скачать книгу

In Ghostly Company	Wordsworth
Автор: Amyas Northcote Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once more broke forth into wild gesticulations and cries, Stella prostrated herself, the Form on the altar grew clearer and with a cry of horror Mr Fowke turned away and rushed madly across the moor'. Amyas Northcote's In Ghostly Company is a rare and splendid collection of strange and disturbing tales from the golden age of ghost stories. His style is akin to that of the master of the genre M.R. James: it is measured and insidiously suggestive, producing unnerving chills rather than shocks and gasps. Northcote's tales make the reader unsettled and uneasy. This is partly due to the fact that the hauntings or strange occurrences take place in natural or mundane surroundings — surroundings familiar to the reader but never before thought of as unusual or threatening. Long out of print, this book remains an enthralling and chilling read.
580 admin 26 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

The Casefiles of Mr: J. G. Reeder	Wordsworth
Автор: Edgar Wallace Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Despite his insignificant appearance, Reeder is a cold and ruthless detective who credits his success to his 'criminal mind' which allows him to solve a series of complex and audacious crimes and outwit the most cunning of villainous masterminds.
1624 vtormai 22 сентября 2015	Скачать книгу

The Good Soldier	Wordsworth
Автор: Ford Madox Ford Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are 'playing the game' in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade.
696 zorkuzz 15 июня 2012	Скачать книгу

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow	Wordsworth
Автор: Conan Doyle Arthur Издательство: Wordsworth, 2013	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from «The Strand Magazine». It contains «The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes», «The Valley of Fear», «His Last Bow» and the last 12 stories of «The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes». Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.»
1452 admin 16 декабря 2015	Скачать книгу

Pride and Prejudice	Wordsworth
Автор: Austen Jane Издательство: Wordsworth, 2007	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
«The garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim — that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. This is an ironic novel of manners. «Pride and Prejudice», which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it, the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim — that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, «Pride and Prejudice» has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.»
1043 vitalysev 13 октрября 2010	Скачать книгу

Lady Chatterley's Lover	Wordsworth
Автор: Lawrence D.H. Издательство: Wordsworth, 2005	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
Lawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatterly and her husband's forthright and powerfully masculine gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever.
984 radius 27 сентября 2010	Скачать книгу

The Italian	Wordsworth
Автор: Ann Radcliffe Издательство: Wordsworth, 2011	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary review commented on, 'Radcliffe's uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes which imagination bodies forth...' Radcliffe's work was hugely influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of the uncanny, was impressed by the, 'eerie touch of setting and action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey.' The novel remains a fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic fiction.
1741 admin 13 февраля 2013	Скачать книгу

Twas the Night Before Christmas	Wordsworth
Автор: Various Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old. Likely to provoke laughter and sometimes to bring a sentimental tear to the driest eye, this festive treasure trove is ideal for reading aloud or curling up with in a comfy corner. Scrooge himself would have found it difficult to resist distributing copies on Christmas morning!
1160 admin 19 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

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