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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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”.
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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.»
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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.
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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.»
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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».»
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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».»
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