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Children's Classic Tales	Wordsworth
Издательство: Wordsworth, 2005	DOC, 1344 страницы, 2.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Tales from Shakespeare», written by Charles and Mary Lamb as an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. «Tales from King Arthur», edited by Andrew Lang, takes the reader into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table. It tells of their brave and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the tragic love of King Arthur for Guinevere. The most potent of the mist-enshrouded tales of adventure passed down from pre-recorded history, the Arthurian legends have as much appeal today as they did in the days of the troubadors. «Tales from the Arabian Nights», also edited by Andrew Lang, tells of the beautiful Scheherazade. Her husband has threatened to kill her, so each night she diverts him with tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending on the morrow. Illustrated by H.J Ford, the tales include Aladdin, The Enchanted Horse, Sinbad the Sailor and the great Caliph of Bagdad, Haroun-al-Raschid. «Tales of Troy and Greece» allow Andrew Lang to draw on his classical knowledge to retell the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the famous Wooden Horse all feature in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told.»
4862 guruleaf 18 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Christmas Books	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Dickens Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include «A Christmas Carol», «The Chimes», «The Battle of Life» and «The Cricket on the Hearth».»
1440 admin 12 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

A Christmas Carol	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Dickens Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 96 страниц, 2.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
345 katrina_28 14 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Rex Collings Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 289 страниц, 8.67 МБ 8 Оценка:
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands — Fisher's Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.
1047 kroha 15 июня 2010	Скачать книгу

Collected Ghost Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: M.R. James Издательство: Wordsworth, 2007	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, My Lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’.
1332 lubacha 10 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of Robert Burns	Wordsworth
Автор: Robert Burns Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 672 страницы, 20.16 МБ 5 Оценка:
«Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion — his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, «Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect», which included «To a Mouse» and «The Cotter's Saturday Night», was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne, the beautiful song «My Love is like a Red Red Rose», «Highland Mary», «Scots Wha Hae» and his masterpiece, «Tam o'Shanter».»
2417 velik 14 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hardy Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 960 страниц, 28.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.
3478 admin 24 августа 2010	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 928 страниц, 27.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism, and the British Empire, but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.
3339 trium 11 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of John Donne	Wordsworth
Автор: John Donne Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne’s poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction of spoken language. Crises of love, conscience, and faith are the great concerns of his poetry which is by turns exalted or disenchanted, direct or oblique, morally profound or outrageously spiteful.
1439 admin 12 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of A: E. Housman	Wordsworth
Автор: Alfred Edward Housman Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.
690 zorkuzz 14 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde	Wordsworth
Автор: Oscar Wilde Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.
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The Collected Poems of W: B. Yeats	Wordsworth
Автор: W.B. Yeats Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his ‘very self’ into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman’s greatness, described him as ‘one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them’. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats’s work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever.
1559 olen33 18 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson	Wordsworth
Автор: Alfred Lord Tennyson Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	DOC, 640 страниц, 1.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages. Much given to melancholy and feelings of aching desolation, Tennyson's verse also carries clear messages of hope: 'Ring out the old, ring in the new', and 'Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'.
2302 admin 16 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Short Stories of Saki	Wordsworth
Автор: Hector Hugh Munro Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
«Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes «Sredni Vastor» and «The Unrest Cure».»
1841 nniikk 12 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe	Wordsworth
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Издательство: Wordsworth, 2004	PDF, 1008 страниц, 30.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities — journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841) — he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of 'The Raven' in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters — a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.
3645 youngpro 13 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde	Wordsworth
Автор: Oscar Wilde Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	DOC, 1104 страницы, 2.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is «The Happy Prince». Counterpoints to this were his novel «The Picture of Dorian Gray», which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece «The Importance of Being Earnest». His essays — in particular «De Profundis» — and his «Ballad of Reading Gaol», both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.»
3980 psygab 24 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Communist Manifesto	Wordsworth
Автор: Karl Marx Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 394 страницы, 11.82 МБ 0 Оценка:
«A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education for all children) are now accepted with little question. In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, «The Communist Manifesto» (with «Socialism Utopian and Scientific», Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading. «The Condition of the Working Class» in England is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book. With Henry Mayhew's «London Labour and the London Poor», it was and is the outstanding study of the working class in Victorian England.»
1429 folders 26 мая 2013	Скачать книгу

The Complete Children's Short Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 2005	PDF, 864 страницы, 25.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
«The Jungle Book» introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. «Puck of Pook's Hill» relates how Dan and Una's magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings... And later, in «Rewards and Fairies», the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to 'Good Queen Bess' and Sir Francis Drake. In Kipling's rattling school yarn «Stalky & Co», Stalky, M'Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children — especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kipling's wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection.»
3125 styleprofi 21 октрября 2008	Скачать книгу

The Complete Fairy Tales	Wordsworth
Автор: Brothers Grimm Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 832 страницы, 24.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling.
2999 immer 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll	Wordsworth
Автор: Lewis Carroll Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 1232 страницы, 36.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark, as well as dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, all of which are included in this volume. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.
4437 katerynas 10 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

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