Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Collected Short Stories II introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soiree. "The Half Brothers" is sad short story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog named Lassie.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07618-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is a wonderful collection of selected short stories like "That Veteran", "The Winning Shot", and "An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07145-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stones includes two famous stories by O. Henry: "Waifs and Strays" and "The Ransom of Red Chief - a short story that follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabamian`s son; eventually, the men are driven crazy by the boy`s spoiled and hyperactive behavior.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07670-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes such wonderful stories like "The Fool-Killer", "The Clarion Call", "The Memento" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07684-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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...
ISBN: 978-1-85326-453-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
Scale: 1:17,500 ( inches to 1 mile). Full colour street level map of a large area of central London, bound in an attractive card cover. Ideal for tourists. MAIN FEATURES This attractive tourist map, presented in a durable card cover, has clear full colour mapping at inches to 1 mile. It has a wealth of detail, showing colour-coded land use information in addition to the intricate named street network. Key destinations are plotted and named on the map and all the streets and places of interest are fully indexed. INCLUDES / Main railway lines and stations. / Full colour-coded detail. / Underground map on the back cover. / Underground stations plotted on map. / Separate index for places of interest. AREA OF COVERAGE From Hammersmith in the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727435-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ideal for use in the home, at school, or in the office, this comprehensive and authoritative reference provides all the synonyms and antonyms you need for everyday use. It contains a wide selection of alternative words and opposites with the most useful words highlighted. The clear color layout makes the content easily accessible and the handy size makes it easy to carry with you wherever you may be. This is the perfect companion to the Collins Mini Dictionary.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732491-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe\'s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack\'s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06426-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Colonel Quaritch is an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride — the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06599-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Colonel Quaritch is a story of an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride — the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07757-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
This book will take the 23 adjectives from the Complete Color Harmony and show 10 different packages in a variety of categories in 3 colour combinations each for every adjective. The result is 1,035 colour/layout variations illustrating how colours are used to great effect in design.
ISBN: 978-1-59253-402-9
Издательство:
Rockport
Дата выхода: август 2011
Created with the help of child development experts, this unique format is designed to keep the pages from sticking together and eluding little fingers. Now youngsters can turn the pages of these early-learning concept books all by themselves.
ISBN: 978-1-58476-655-1
Издательство:
Innovative Kids
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Цвет является важной составляющей логотипа. Цвет оживляет форму, вносит смысл. Цвет и форма друг без друга не существуют, но цвет в некотором смысле сильнее формы: он может погубить форму или не дать ей раскрыть смысл логотипа.Книга "Color Harmony: Logos" показывает, как выбирать цвета для логотипа. Цветовая гамма обязана жестко соответствовать общей тематике, должна усиливать выразительность формы, текста,...
A selection of content from the entire Color Harmony library offering readers the most comprehensive reference book on the usage of color available today. Included are swatches and material for designers and all types of artists looking for inspiration and guidance to ensure the right color choices for every project.
ISBN: 978-1-59253-590-3
Издательство:
Rockport
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Presents a way for young children to begin learning their colors. This sticker book includes such scenes as space, a farm and a jungle. It lets children enjoy fixing the picture stickers onto each scene.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9913-1
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Little children will love colouring in the scenes from Apple Tree Farm, including Poppy and Sam, Woolly the sheep and all the other well-loved characters. With pre-coloured backgrounds each scene is easy for young children to complete. Two pages of stickers encourage creativity.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-2441-0
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Charles Bukowski is one of America`s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose. This is the fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from one of the country`s most influential and most imitated poets. another comeback climbing back up out of the ooze, out of the thick black tar, rising up again, a modern Lazarus. you`re amazed at your good fortune. somehow you`ve had more than your share of second chances. hell, accept it. what you have, you have. you walk and look in the bathroom mirror at an idiot`s smile. you know your luck. some go down and never climb back up. something is being kind to you. you turn from the mirror and walk into the world. you find a chair, sit down, light a cigar. back from a thousand wars you look...
ISBN: 978-0-06-057706-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
