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The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	Wordsworth
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
This edition of The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, newly reprinted from the original text of The Strand Magazine. It is illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, and the man from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive. This is the first of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. The three books present all the Holmes stories arranged chronologically in order of first publication.
1667 biomg 21 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Aeneid	Wordsworth
Автор: Virgil Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic private voice is given full expression both in the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, and in the fateful clash between the Trojan leader and the Italian hero, Turnus. Hailed by T.S. Eliot as 'the classic of all Europe', Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past two thousand years.
1497 delovar 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass	Wordsworth
Автор: Lewis Carroll Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.
1035 vitalysev 11 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea	Wordsworth
Автор: L.M. Montgomery Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature delight the fictional community of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and ensure that Anne of Green Gables continues to be a firm favourite with readers worldwide. Anne of Avonlea continues Anne’s story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature ambitions do not prevent her entanglement in the scrapes that still seem to beset her in spite of her best intentions. Thoroughly charming and amusing, with a supporting cast of colourful and endearing characters, both books will enchant and entertain readers, guaranteeing that Anne’s adventures capture their affections as well as their imaginations.
1899 carabin 16 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Antony and Cleopatra	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's most complex depiction of a woman: 'Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety.'
575 admin 24 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Art of War/The Book of Lord Shang	Wordsworth
Автор: Sun Tzu Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.
922 lawyer_78rus 21 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

As You Like It	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre.
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Barnaby Rudge	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Dickens Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 672 страницы, 20.16 МБ 5 Оценка:
Dickens' first historical novel is set against the infamous 'No Popery' riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who would exploit these for political ends, are Dicken's targets. His vivid account of the riots at the heart of the novel is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism. A typically rich cast of characters, from the snivelling Mrs Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted Barnaby Rudge of the title, ensures high entertainment.
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Ben Hur	Wordsworth
Автор: Lew Wallace Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-packed scene to life and illuminates the geography, ethnology and customs of the ancient world.
1440 admin 12 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Best Ghost Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Dickens Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. His natural inclination towards drama and the macabre lead him into the telling of ghost tales. Twelve ghosts stories are presented here, and the full range of Dickens' gothic talents can be seen.
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The Best Short Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. Life's Handicap reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the diverse topics featured in Many Inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries is Kipling's well-loved story about a polo pony.
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes	Wordsworth
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s ‘Baker Street Dozen’ creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective.
1499 delovar 16 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Billy Budd and Other Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Herman Melville Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends.
1153 admin 17 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Black Beauty	Wordsworth
Автор: Anna Sewell Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Black Beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horse's adventures and the disappointments and joys that surround him.
748 anatoly_24 15 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Bleak House	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Dickens Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 800 страниц, 24.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience. But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.
2877 admin 24 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Call of the Wild and White Fang	Wordsworth
Автор: Jack London Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the ‘decivilisation’ of Buck as he answers ‘the call of the wild’, an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast, White Fang relates the tale of a wolf born and bred in the wild which is civilised by the master he comes to trust and love. The brutal world of the Klondike miners and their dogs is brilliantly evoked and Jack London’s rendering of the sentient life of Buck and White Fang as they confront their destiny is enthralling and convincing. The deeper resonance of these stories derives from the author’s use of the myth of the hero who survives by strength and courage, a powerful myth that still appeals to our collective unconscious.
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes	Wordsworth
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	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 short story series “Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear” — a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 – “His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes” and the last 12 stories “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”.
1438 admin 12 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

A Child's Garden of Verses	Wordsworth
Автор: Robert Louis Stevenson Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 140 страниц, 4.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
The 64 poems in “A Child's Garden of Verses” are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped”. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now. This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by “The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature”.
503 admin 02 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: D.S. Davies Издательство: Wordsworth, 2007	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori’s «The Vampyre» and James Malcolm Rymer’s «Varney the Vampyre», a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more well known bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu’s «Carmilla» and Stoker’s «Dracula», there is a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written by expert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. «Children of the Night» is a volume filled with the rich blood of chilling vampire fiction.»
985 radius 27 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

The Children of the New Forest	Wordsworth
Автор: Captain Marryatt Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult constraint allied with the necessary disciplines to survive in a hostile world make for a gripping read.
1093 stalker1965 15 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

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