Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori`s The Vampyre and James Malcolm Rymer`s Varney the Vampyre, a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more well known bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu s Carmilla and Stoker s Dracula, there is a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written by expert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. Children of the Night is a volume...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-546-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul continues, as the innocent take up arms against the monster. As his loved ones indulge in forbidden crimes with a legendary passion, Vlad the Impaler`s heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons" "Let the curse end with me!"
ISBN: 978-0-440-22269-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Stalin`s Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful State. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer kills at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State`s obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking truths about a killer - and a country where "crime" doesn`t exist. Формат: 15 см x 23 см.
Packed with colourful, photographic stickers, Children Just Like Me Ultimate Sticker Book is an exciting sticker book for kids interested in what life is like for children around the world.In Children Just Like Me Ultimate Sticker Book discover what daily life is like for kids around the world - then decorate the pages with colourful stickers. Filled with more then 250 cool stickers, Children Just Like Me Sticker Book will entertain children for hours.
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Children of the Frost" is an amazing collection of stories like "In the Forests of the North", "Nam-Bok the Unveracious" and "The Master of Mystery". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08115-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb as an `introduction to the study of Shakespeare`, are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare`s best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Tales from King Arthur, edited by Andrew Lang, takes the reader into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table. It tells of their brave and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the tragic love of King Arthur for Guinevere. The most potent of the mist-enshrouded tales of adventure passed down from pre-recorded history, the Arthurian legends have as much appeal today as they did in the days of the troubadors. Tales from the...
ISBN: 1-84022-063-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don`t really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms as easy as pie with the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday American idioms, complete with kid-friendly sample sentences. The entries are amusing as well as educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a piece of cake.
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien`s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of...
ISBN: 9780007252268
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: январь 2020
A beautiful introduction to art for young children, packed with colourful photographs and cartoons and including thirty of the world`s best-loved works of art. Ages: 6+.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7007-9
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But the children of this utopia dream strange dreams of distant suns and alien planets, and begin to evolve into something incomprehensible to their parents, and soon they will be ready to join the and, in a grand and thrilling metaphysical climax, leave the Earth behind.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08235-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The first complete book by Tolkien in three decades, this book, edited by Tolkien`s son Christopher, reunites fans of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves. This paperback edition includes eight color paintings by Alan Lee and a black-and-white map.
Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth and destroy the children of Hurin.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730936-8
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
William Blake, Kate Greenaway and Emily Dickinson are among literatures most beloved writers and all feature in this charming anthology of 200 poems - first published in 1969. Gyo Fujikawa`s appealing illustrations help to enhance verses that children will love such as The Owl and the Pussycat, The Day is Done, and Wynken, Blynken and Nod, along with proverbs, limericks, nursery rhymes and folk songs.
The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children`s books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
ISBN: 978-0-09-975501-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Stalin`s Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful State. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer kills at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State`s obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking truths about a killer - and a country where "crime" doesn`t exist. Формат: 10,5 см x 17 см.
With over 20,000 clear and concise entries, students will have synonyms and antonyms at their fingertips. And for kids who don`t know their "principal" from a "principle", this handy guide also contains 2,000 homonyms. It`s the perfect thesaurus for kids on the go.
During his many trips through China, Karl Lang has created an unusual insight into this enormous empire of the Orient. In addition to the traditional rural life and the pulsating metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai, the perfectly-composed panorama photographs also show the beauty of the landscape of this country so foreign to us.
ISBN: 978-3-89823-337-8
Издательство:
Editionpanorama
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Artie Wu and Quincy Durant, one of Southern California`s unlikeliest pairs, find that the local mix-up they are looking into has suddenly expanded in space, from Vietnam to Washington, and in time, through twenty years of intrigue and deception.
