Collector`s Library

Подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin`s. Her father was immensely rich and she became a "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father died and his wealth disappeared, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her newfound poverty and the scorn of her fellows.

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

"Kim" (1901) is one of Kipling`s masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O`Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. While Kim plays the Great Game, the Intelligence-led rivalry with Russia`s expansionist ambitions in the north, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Великолепное подарочное издание. Книга в суперобложке с трехсторонним золотым обрезом. Pride and Prejudice is a delightful social comedy and a timelessly affecting love story. Elizabeth Bennet is the headstrong young woman whom no man seems capable of taming; Fitzwilliam Darcy is the arrogant landowner who disdains to think it would be worth his trying to do so. Jane Austen`s poised narrative shows how these two apparently incompatible characters learn to overcome their initial feelings of mutual dislike. A tour de force of wit and sparkling dialogue, Pride and Prejudice is also a sumptuously detailed picture of contemporary society, which, in its exploration of...

Издательство: Collector's Library
Дата выхода: март 2011

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 has the endorsement of the Kipling Society, of which Dr Welby is a Council Member.

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

William Blake`s Songs of Innocence and Experience contain some of Blake`s finest and best-loved poems, which are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic and artistic aspirations. The fifty-four plates which Blake originally etched and coloured by hand are beautifully reproduced, and each has the text of the poem printed on the facing page. Here the reader will find The Lamb, The Little Black Boy, The Chimney Sweeper, Infant Joy, The Sick Rose, The Tyger and Infant Sorrow.

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

The Collector`s Library volumes of short stories - Best Ghost Stories , Best Fairy Stories , Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of chilling tales is designed to be read as autumn nights draw in as Hallowe`en approaches. Stories from famous writers such as Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson and Elizabeth Gaskell are matched with equally terrifying tales from Benson, Edith Wharton, Jacobs, Harvey, F. Marion Crawford, Ambrose Bierce and many others.

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

This is Scott Fitzgerald`s debut novel, written when he was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a leading literary figure in the brilliant and dangerous world of 1920s America. Its instant appeal could be compared to the success of The Catcher in the Rye thirty years later. The novel tells the story of a spoilt child in search of happiness. Pampered, wealthy, brilliant at school, Amory Blaine looks for the love of others but only finds himself. A short, sharp masterpiece with an intriguing religious undertow, this is also a touchingly autobiographical novel which reflects ominously on Fitzgerald`s own future.

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown`s "Schooldays" has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. The book describes Tom`s time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy`s schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

The Collector`s Library volumes of short stories - Best Ghost Stories, Best Fairy Stories, Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, Chesterton, `Sapper`, Hornung, and Arnold Bennett. These masters of the genre are joined by less well-known but equally skilled writers such as Arthur B. Reeve, Maurice LeBlanc, Ernest Bramah, Mrs Henry Wood, Stacy Aumonier and Herbert Jenkins among others.

Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012