Brand new edition of this collection of classic fairy tales from the wizarding world - an irresistible read for all Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling`s original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Published in aid of Lumos (wearelumos.org), an international children`s charity founded by J.K. Rowling.The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the fifteenth century. There are five tales in all: `The Tale of the Three Brothers` Harry Potter...
ISBN: 9781408883099
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: апрель 2017
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Tales of Terror" is the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as "The Horror of the Heights", "The New Catacomb" and "The Case of Lady Sannox".
ISBN: 978-5-521-08062-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
`Bear is writing letters. One, two, three. Bear goes out to post them. Who lives in this tree?` Bear is writing letters to his friends. Lift the flaps and join Frog, Squirrel and Mole for Bear`s special surprise! Collect all four books in The Acorn Wood series: Fox`s Socks, Hide-and-Seek Pig, and Rabbit`s Nap.
ISBN: 978-0-230-75312-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
These simplified and shortened retellings make great literary classics accessible. Each remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story. This title is perfect for enthusiastic young readers, who will be mesmerised by these stories and encouraged to pursue an interest in literature. A new title to the series, "Huckleberry Finn" tells of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his companion Jim, as they travel down the Mississippi river before the American Civil War. Nine of Edgar Allan Poe`s chilling tales of terror are retold in this new edition of "Tales of Mystery and Imagination".
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8491-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. This collection of Poe`s work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe`s writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly insoluble mysteries. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher are key works in the horror canon, while in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget we find the...
ISBN: 1904633137
Издательство:
Collector's Library
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
`Poor old fox has lost his socks. He looks in a chest and finds a vest.` Can you help fox find his socks? Are they in the kitchen or under the stairs? Are they inside the clock or hidden in a chest? Lift the flaps and find out! Collect all four books in The Acorn Wood series: Postman Bear, Rabbit`s Nap, and Hide-and-Seek Pig.
ISBN: 978-0-230-75309-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A selection from the famous collection of Oriental stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, including the classic favourites Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sindbad the Sailor. Travel through the streets of old Baghdad, around luxurious palaces and fragrant gardens in India, to desert islands in the China seas… all in the company of kings, sultans, princesses, merchants, enchanted horses, sailors and thieves.
ISBN: 9788853005175
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book serves as the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as "The Horror of the Heights," "The New Catacomb" and "The Case of Lady Sannox."
ISBN: 978-5-521-07156-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Classic / British English Hans Andersen wrote many stories, and these are some of the best. We meet a very, very small child, a bird with a beautiful voice, a mermaid with legs, an ugly duckling with no friends - and an emperor with some very strange new clothes. These stories teach us lessons for life. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7818-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer`s art - a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Tales of the Alhambra" is a collection of essays, sketches and stories. The Alhambra is a palace located in Granada, in the south of Spain. The book consists of a collection of enchanting Spanish and Moorish legends, folktales, and myths about the palace and its surroundings, along with some more traditional travel narratives and observational essays about the country and its customs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08252-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Selected and with an introduction by David Stuart Davies, this gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle`s vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Blue John Cap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat" and "The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in "Lot 249". Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-078-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This is a collection of medical and detective stories by Doyle, where he focused on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons at the time. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08101-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare`s plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of adults as well as children and provides entertaining and informative introductions to these great works. Using prose to simplify plot and language but incorporating some of the original speeches, the Lambs remained sensitive to the original plays, brilliantly re-creating characters and action. From the overpowering drama of `Hamlet` and `Macbeth` to the engaging wit of `The Taming of the Shrew` and `Twelfth Night`, Shakespeare`s best-known tragedies and comedies are brought vividly to life.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062382-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This Book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare`s greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare`s most famous characters magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more. This is a wonderful first step on the journey into the world of Shakespeare.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6522-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Tales of Medical Life" includes amazing stories about a subject that the author, being a physician himself, had a unique perspective on - the medical profession and people involved in it.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07160-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun. Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance`s classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel`s Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to
ISBN: 978-1-85798-994-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare`s plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of adults as well as children and provides entertaining and informative introductions to these great works. Using prose to simplify plot and language but incorporating some of the original speeches, the Lambs remained sensitive to the original plays, brilliantly re-creating characters and action. From the overpowering drama of `Hamlet` and `Macbeth` to the engaging wit of `The Tamingof the Shrew` and `Twelfth Night`, Shakespeare`s best-known tragedies and comedies are brought vividly to life.
ISBN: 0-14-062159-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002