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Kidnapped	Wordsworth
Автор: Robert Louis Stevenson Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause.
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Little Men: and Jo's Boys	Wordsworth
Автор: Louisa May Alcott Издательство: Wordsworth, 2009	PDF, 511 страниц, 15.33 МБ 7 Оценка:
«The two American classics here together in one volume, «Little Men» and «Jo's Boys», are worthy sequels to «Little Women», one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, «Good Wives». In «Little Men», Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and free-spirited of the four March sisters. «Jo's Boys» revisits the one-time members of that 'wilderness of boys' ten years later when they are making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster.»
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Miserables, Les	Wordsworth
Автор: Victor Hugo Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
This is the second volume of a novel rich in both character portrayal and historical description. Characters include the absurdly criminalized Valjean and the implacable detective Javert. It includes scenes such as the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers.
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The Monk	Wordsworth
Автор: Matthew Lewis Издательство: Wordsworth, 2009	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, «The Monk» is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads to its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder to conceal his guilt.»
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The Mysterious Island	Wordsworth
Автор: Jules Verne Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
«With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction. In «The Mysterious Island» a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret.»
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The Rainbow	Wordsworth
Автор: D. H. Lawrence Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
This novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire. It is a metaphysical enquiry into the possibilities that human relationships hold amid the uncompromizing circumstances of industrial culture, which Lawrence continued in Women in Love.
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Silas Marner	Wordsworth
Автор: George Eliot Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
This novel tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner, a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England, and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. It is a tender tale of sin and repentance set in a rural world.
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Sons and Lovers	Wordsworth
Автор: D. H. Lawrence Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden forlong. Paul Morel is caught between his need for family and community and his efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's relationships makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of thetwentieth.
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Tales from King Arthur	Wordsworth
Автор: C. Lang Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
The highest standards in editing and production have been applied to the Wordsworth Children's Classics, while the low price makes them affordable for everyone. Wordsworth's list covers a range of the best-loved stories for children, from nursery tales, classic fables, and fairy tales to stories that will appeal to older children and adults alike. Many of these volumes have contemporary illustrations, and while they are ideal for shared family reading, their attractive format will also encourage children to read for themselves. Like all Wordsworth Editions, these children's books represent unbeatable value.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps	Wordsworth
Автор: John Buchan Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 112 страниц, 3.36 МБ 5 Оценка:
When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After a corpse is found in his flat, Hannay flees the attentions of both the conspirators and the law, and a manhunt ensues.
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Tom Sawyer Abroad: and Tom Sawyer, Detective	Wordsworth
Автор: Mark Twain Издательство: Wordsworth, 2009	PDF, 188 страниц, 5.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
«In «Tom Sawyer Abroad», Tom, Huck and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon. Where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders. In «Tom Sawyer, Detective», Tom attempts to solve a murder.»
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Twenty Years After	Wordsworth
Автор: Alexandre Dumas Издательство: Wordsworth, 2009	PDF, 704 страницы, 21.12 МБ 0 Оценка:
«This title includes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of «The Three Musketeers», Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In «Twenty Years After» the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin. Their adventures also take them to England, where Cromwell is about to topple Charles I. Meanwhile, they must overcome the obstacles which the passing of time has placed between them. Rediscovering strength in unity, they fight for Queen and country. «The Musketeer» novels were a huge success in Dumas' own lifetime, and have lost none of their original appeal. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world.»
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Ulysses	Wordsworth
Автор: James Joyce Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 736 страниц, 22.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, «Ulysses», tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, «Ulysses» offers the reader a life-changing experience.»
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Classic Short Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Various Издательство: Wordsworth, 2007	PDF, 1408 страниц, 42.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Selected by Rosemary Gray, poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour, all are guaranteed to capture the imagination, stir the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the reader's appetite for more. In this book, Wordsworth Editions presents the modern reader with a rich variety of short stories by a host of towering literary figures ranging from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf. This disparate and distinguished company of writers has rarely — if ever — met within the pages of one volume: the result is a positive feast.
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Dead Souls	Wordsworth
Автор: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Издательство: Wordsworth, 2010	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him?
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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.
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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...
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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.»
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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.
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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

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