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.
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
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
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including "Two Wrongs" and an ironic "The Night of Chancellorsville" in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07615-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
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 classic collection of short stories includes some of Clarke`s finest work: vivid glimpses into the future, a year, a decade, a century, a millennium from now. Retold by Helen Reid-Thomas.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7282-3
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
