Telling Stories, based on the Rockwell collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is the first book to chart the connections between Rockwell`s iconic images of American life and the movies. Rockwell, the quintessential American mythmaker of the twentieth century, was a storyteller on a par with the great Hollywood directors of his day. Within his art, the fantasies and foibles of ordinary people are given life, central among them the themes of love of country, the sanctity of family, and the value of personal honour. Spielberg and Lucas - masterful storytellers and mythmakers themselves - are kindred spirits whose early introduction to art and the American dream came via Rockwell`s famous magazine art. Rockwell composed his...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep`. Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare`s The Tempest begins with a storm of epic proportions and a shipwreck. Banished from Italy, Prospero lives on a remote island with his daughter. Using his magic, he vows to seek revenge on the injustice dealt to him by his brother, but in doing so, Shakespeare questions the difficulty of distinguishing `men` from `monsters`, and the realities of justice.
ISBN: 978-0-00-790235-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"The Tempest" is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare`s late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his `art`, and prepares to return to the mainland. "The Tempest" has often been regarded as Shakespeare`s `farewell to the stage` before his retirement.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-203-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Bloody revenge on the streets of Paris threaten Baldwin`s royal mission in the next novel in this brilliant medieval crime series. Isabella, Queen of England, has been dispatched to France in an attempt to bring about peace between the two countries, and Baldwin must accompany her. But the day after their arrival, a servant is found murdered, with Baldwin`s dagger lying next to the body. As Baldwin struggles to prove his innocence, the killer strikes again. With so many English enemies gathering in Paris, will Baldwin be able to expose the culprit in time to protect the English King?
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3284-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Everything Richard Rahl has learned will be for naught as the ruthless Emperor Jagang returns with his vast heralded by a mystical plague that kills innocents in the thousands. Richard must now challenge the undefeatable: the magic that thwarts magic, sealed away for three thousand years in the Temple of the Winds. Prodded by prophecy, shadowed by betrayal, to complete his mission Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds before he and the world both perish.
ISBN: 0-8125-5148-6
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
`The great oaken gate heaved and splintered, and a monstrous beast as huge as a horse appeared at the mouth of the den; his small head was laid back on his hairy shoulders, his little eyes gleamed wickedly, and his red mouth opened snarling fiercely`. Undeservedly, the weird and chilling ghost stories of Arthur Christopher Benson and Robert Hugh Benson have been neglected for far too long. This volume attempts to rectify that situation. This dark banquet of tales take us to strange, unworldly and often archaic environments, far removed from the manic pace and pressures of the twenty-first century, but as exercises in the art of luring the reader into a state of unease, they are as potent as they were when the ink was barely dry on the page.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-547-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
1095 and crusading fervour has swept Europe. Christ’s fief of Jerusalem has been seized by the Infidels. The Frankish Knights of the West are to march east to liberate the Holy City. Hugh de Payens and Godefroi of St Omer, the soon-to-be founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh’s younger sister, Eleanor, leave the security of their homes in Burgundy, France, with a plan to join Count Raymond of Toulouse`s army, and march across the known world to Jerusalem. Follow the crusaders as they march through Europe into the glories of Byzantium and onto Syria and witness the hardships, bloodshed and trickery they encounter on their treacherous travels to the Holy Land.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3850-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, one of her finest collections of short stories. Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and `rather literary`, share a shocking flaw, a secret `cancer`. A young, beautiful woman from a working class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her happily married lover is unobtainable. A dedicated, lifelong rationalist is tempted, after the death of his...
Zoey needs a break after some serious excitement. Sadly, the House of Night school for vampyres doesn`t feature breaks on its curriculum - even for a High Priestess in training and her gang. Plus juggling three guys is no stress reliever, especially when one is a sexy Warrior so into protecting Zoey that he`s sensing her emotions. Wider stresses lurk too, and the dark force in Tulsa`s tunnels is spreading. Could Stevie Rae be responsible for more than a group of misfit fledglings? And Aphrodite`s visions warn Zoey to stay away from the immortal Kalona and his dark allure - but they also show that only Zoey can stop him. She`s not exactly keen to meet up, but if Zoey doesn`t go to Kalona he`ll exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to...
A beginning Beginner Book, this ingenious story uses a vocabulary of only 75 different words. A hilarious story in rhyme about a number of animals who could carry 10 apples on their heads.
ISBN: 978-0-394-80019-6
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest - can they get ten apples piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting book works as a teaching tool as well as a funny story.
Don Keough a former top executive at Coca-Cola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company? Has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixty-year career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Drucker. Now this elder statesman reveals how great enterprises get into trouble. Even the smartest executives can fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. When that happens, more bad decisions are sure to follow. This light-hearted? How-not-to? book includes anecdotes from Keough`s long career as well as other infamous failures. His commandments for failure...
Роман «Десять негритят» остается в течение десятилетий одним из самых читаемых и популярных произведений замечательного мастера классического детектива А. Кристи. Автор увлекает читателя умело раскручиваемой интригой, тонкими психологическими характеристиками героев, нестандартными решениями проблемы неотвратимости наказания за вольно или невольно совершенные проступки. Огромный успех...
ISBN: 5-8346-0087-5
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Here in one compact and modestly priced edition are the celebrated Russian playwright`s most popular works. In addition to five full-length plays—The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov—this anthology features five of Anton Chekhov`s one-act comedies: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. Chekhov`s taste for vaudeville shows and French farces influenced his comic one-acts, which are widely regarded as masterpieces of the genre. His greatest fame rests upon his full-length tragedies, which focus on mood and characterization rather than plot. Chekhov considered his famous tragedies a form of comic satire—with the bleakness of life in czarist Russia at the...
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detaol. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis, as well as suggestions for further reading. There is not a modern short story writer anywhere to be compared with Roald Dahl. Each of his stories is so clever has such a startling twist at the end of it leaves the reader gasping. The then stories in this book may depict human nature at its darkest, but they are also brilliantly funny and completely unforgettable.
ISBN: 0-14-081779-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis, as well as suggestions for further reading.There is not a modern short story writer anywhere to be compared with Roald Dahl. Each of his stories is so clever has such a startling twist at the end of it leaves the reader gasping. The then stories in this book may depict human nature at its darkest, but they are also brilliantly funny and completely unforgettable.
ISBN: 9780140817799
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019