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Dictionary of Drink	Wordsworth
Автор: Ned Halley Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 656 страниц, 19.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
What is a slack-ma-girdle? Or a submarino? How did White Horse whisky get its name? Or Old Bawdy barley wine? How do you make a really dry martini? Or beer? Or champagne? The answers to these enquiries and thousands of others are revealed in this unique guide to every kind of alcohol, compiled by dedicated drinker and collector of little histories, Ned Halley, who is an award-winning writer on beer, a nationally syndicated wine columnist and author of numerous books on drink. In a straightforward A to Z format, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink identifies thousands of individual brewers, distillers and winemakers, as well as the names of their products. The dictionary aims to be of real, practical help in locating beers and ciders, wines and spirits of every hue to their maker and place of origin. Here, too, are descriptive terms used on labels, along with the less-formal words used by producers and purveyors to promote their products in the market place. Origins, from village breweries to entire wine-producing regions, are located by nation, province and district. In many cases, there is a mention of when a producer or product was established, perhaps a word about the founder or a brief explanation of a curious-sounding brand name. The book is laced with historical anecdotes, a thousand cocktail recipes, essys on topics from the Guiness dynasty to the principles of brewing, from the discovery of distilling to the history of exise duty — and illustrated with hundreds of drink labels from all around the world.
2376 trundle 24 августа 2010	Скачать книгу

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable	Wordsworth
Автор: Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Издательство: Wordsworth, 2001	DjVu, 1184 страницы, 47.36 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial, and embracing archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology, and characters from fiction. This invaluable dictionary, which revises and updates the original work of Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, encompasses material from all over the English speaking world and cites many equivalents from other European countries. The inclusion of quotations which accompany and illustrate many of the entries adds hugely to the value of this legendary work of reference.
4275 dvsnic 22 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms	Wordsworth
Автор: Martin Manser Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms will enable readers to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but everyone who enjoys the richness and diversity of the English language will find a great deal to reward them within its covers. The dictionary contains approximately: 7,0000 main entry words 60,000 alternative words 6,000 antonyms (words opposite in meaning) which are clearly highlighted Special features include: Convenient alphabetical A-Z listing Numbered senses for words with more than one meaning British and American spelling variants Specially marked colloquial uses
922 lawyer_78rus 21 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Don Quixote	Wordsworth
Автор: Miguel de Cervantes Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 800 страниц, 24.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader.
2875 admin 23 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Don Quixote	Wordsworth
Автор: Miguel de Cervantes Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 992 страницы, 29.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail — his avowed intent being to debunk the romances of chivalry. From first publication Don Quixote was a best-seller, initially taken as a knockabout account of a mad Spanish gentleman and his cowardly peasant squire, but later reinterpreted as an enlightenment text, a representation of universal human nature, a myth of a tragic hero defending man's nobler aspirations, a study in alienation, a spiritual autobiography, a metaphor for Spain's imperial decline, an experimental novel that shaped later prose fiction, a tragedy and comedy in one, and a demonstration that ambiguity and uncertainty can lie at the centre of great art and that great art can be comic. Smollet's vigorous and lively translation brilliantly catches the feeling and tone of the Spanish original. It is a comic novelist's homage to a comic novelist.
3594 drskif 14 февраля 2010	Скачать книгу

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Wordsworth
Автор: Robert Louis Stevenson Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
«In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, «The Merry Men» and Other Tales and Fables. «The Merry Men» is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; «Markheim», the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; «Thrawn Janet», a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; «Olalla», a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; «Will O'the Mill», a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and «The Treasure of Franchard», a study of French bourgeois life.»
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Dracula	Wordsworth
Автор: Bram Stoker Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.'
1265 anarho 21 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Enchanted Castle	Wordsworth
Автор: E. Nesbit Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring that grants wishes. But wishes granted are not always wishes wanted, so the children find themselves grappling with invisibility, dinosaurs, a ghost and the fearsome Ugli-Wuglies before it is all resolved. This edition of The Enchanted Castle has forty-seven evocative illustrations by H.R. Millar
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English Fairy Tales	Wordsworth
Автор: Arthur Rackham Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.
921 lawyer_78rus 19 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The English Poems of John Milton	Wordsworth
Автор: John Milton Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 624 страницы, 18.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
John Milton (1608-74) has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair L'Allegro and Il Penseroso ('the cheerful man and the thoughtful man'), Lycidas (his great elegy on a fellow poet) and Comus (the one masque which is still read today). When the Civil War began Milton abandoned poetry for politics and wrote a series of pamphlets in defence of the Parliamentary party, then in defence of the execution of Charles I: these include his great defence of the freedom of the press, Areopagitica. In the course of this work he lost his sight, and was blind for the last twenty years of his life. During this time he wrote his two great epics, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and his retelling of the story of Samson as a Greek tragedy. This edition contains all his poems in English, with introduction and notes by Laurence Lerner (formerly Professor of English, University of Sussex)
2245 metroteam 13 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Ethan Frome	Wordsworth
Автор: Edith Wharton Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists, Edith Wharton's characterisation and deft handling of reversals of fortune are so accomplished that Ethan Frome has remained enduringly popular since its first publication in 1911 and is considered her greatest tragic story.
461 liego55 20 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Eugene Onegin	Wordsworth
Автор: Alexander Pushkin Издательство: Wordsworth, 2005	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
«Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; «Eugene Onegin» is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable feature of the original, while masking many of its glories. This prose version, for the first time, gives us a «Eugene Onegin» that is easy and enjoyable to read.»
1273 anarho 23 октрября 2008	Скачать книгу

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Mackay Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 624 страницы, 18.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch Mania, Alchemy, the Crusades, Fortune-telling, Haunted Houses, and even 'Tulipomania' are only some of the subjects covered in this book, which is given a contemporary perspective through Professor Norman Stone's lively new Introduction.
2246 metroteam 14 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Fanny Hill — Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure	Wordsworth
Автор: John Cleland Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure», better known as «Fanny Hill», is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly coloured by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures. The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only recently been countered by serious critical appraisal.»
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Far from the Madding Crowd	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hardy Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 362 страницы, 10.86 МБ 5 Оценка:
«Far from the Madding Crowd» is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods.»
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Fathers and Sons	Wordsworth
Автор: Ivan Turgenev Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov's political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure. The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and this, a year later, drove Turgenev from Russia.
864 admin 21 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Faust — A Tragedy in Two Parts and the Urfaust	Wordsworth
Автор: Goethe Издательство: Wordsworth, 1999	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust's experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation. This new translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character of the original, its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy. In addition, John Williams has translated the Urfaust, a fascinating glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination, and a selection from the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath — material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish it.
1789 neptun 28 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Five Children and It	Wordsworth
Автор: E. Nesbit Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are too difficult to spend, wings let them down in a most inconvenient way, and when they wish for Red Indians, the children forget that they can sometimes be a little warlike.
690 zorkuzz 14 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Forsyte Saga	Wordsworth
Автор: John Galsworthy Издательство: Wordsworth, 2002	PDF, 736 страниц, 22.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume. Initially, the narrative centres on Soames Forsyte — a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a 'Man of Property', but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination, creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences.
2658 eugeni 18 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Four Late Plays	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
«The Shakespeare comedies collected in this text are frequently known as «the romances». It is argued that they conclude in a spirit of hope as the main characters are reunited in an aura of reconciliation, wrongs are righted, and exiles returned to their homes.»
1559 olen33 18 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

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