These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are the legends of half-remembered heroes and people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold in the sparkling and inspirational words of the multiple award-winning and much-loved children`s author, Geraldine McCaughrean, the tales will delight and entertain readers of all ages. Together, GEORGE AND THE DRAGON AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES with its two companion volumes, ROBIN HOOD AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES and KING ARTHUR AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES, make a wonderful gift collection of classic tales from around the world - many of them unavailable anywhere else.
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0238-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the seedy backstreets of London`s Soho in the 60s to the tough, sexy world of international rock-stardom in the 70s, Georgia sees it all-When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her. Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers, sweat shops, camaraderie and hardship. Fired by a fierce ambition, blessed with an extraordinary voice, her long struggle for fame and fortune begins. But even when she...
ISBN: 978-0-09-942807-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business`As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day`s worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps, and trudging between London`s workhouse spikes for a few hours` sleep and tea. With all of the sensitivity and compassion that Orwell is known and loved for, he exposed the hardships of poverty and gave readers an unprecedented look at life lived on the fringes of society.This...
ISBN: 9781784876616
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2021
Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark there lived a mighty dragon. He was an awesome and frightening creature, terrorising whole armies, destroying castles, demolishing forests and kidnapping princesses. But, this mighty dragon had a deep, dark
ISBN: 978-0-09-941766-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Take a rollercoaster ride through the vastness of space and, in the midst of an exciting adventure, discover the mysteries of physics, science and the universe with George, his new friends next door – the scientist Eric and his daughter, Annie – and a super-intelligent computer called Cosmos, which can take them to the edge of a black hole and back again. Or can it? And who else would like to get their hands on Cosmos? A funny and hugely informative romp through space, time and the universe.
ISBN: 978-0-552-55958-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George`s grandma. She`s a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it`s time for her medicine. George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvelous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof…
ISBN: 978-0-14-132273-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
- Et quelle est cette réponse, Monsieur? demanda Georges. - Cette réponse est que votre seconde demande est pour le moins aussi exagérée que la première. Je ne me bats pas avec un mulâ - C`est votre dernier mot? dit-il. - Oui, Monsieur, répondit Henri. - Et, saluant MM. de Malmédie, il se retira suivi du gouverneur. - Je vous l`avais bien prédit, Monsieur, dit lord Williams lorsqu`ils furent à la porte. - Et vous ne m`aviez rien prédit que je ne susse d`avance, milord, répondit Georges; mais je suis revenu ici pour accomplir une destinée. Il faut que j`aille jusqu`au bout. J`ai un préjugé à combattre. Il faut qu`il m`écrase ou que je le tue.
ISBN: 978-2-07-036567-8
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Introduce children to the lives and achievements of pioneering men and women from diverse cultures, eras, and fields with Rookie Biographies TM, the new series that helps emergent readers get to know the people who shaped our world! Travel back to the birth of America and meet the great general who became the first president of the United States. Discover why history books call him The Father of Our Country.
ISBN: 978-0-516-27335-8
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother`s abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a period of austerity, social transformation and loss of Empire. George was unprepared for kingship, suffering from a stammer which could make public occasions very painful for him. Moreover he had grown up in the shadow of his brother, a man who had been idolized as no royal prince has been, before or since. However, as Sarah Bradford shows in this sympathetic biography, although George was not born to be king, he died a great one.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95609-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Georges Seurat (1859–1891), a man of consistently proper disposition, was called “the notary” by his painter colleagues, and yet he was a trailblazing avant-garde artist. No other visual theme so well illustrates the tremendous innovations in Seurat’s paintings and drawings as the focus of this volume: the figure in space. The artist’s dense weave of pencil strokes cover the paper, making his indeterminate, floating motifs either stand out or disappear, while distinct light and dark contrasts surround and accentuate the figures. In his paintings, Seurat transposed his subjects into his technique, Pointillism, as well as into his innovative compositions. In later pieces, he even repeated and varied human forms within a single...
Youth culture and brands have always had a convoluted relationship both influencing and feeding off each other alike. The term “gepflegt krass” is German slang used mainly by youth culture for awesome or cool. "Gepflegt: KRASS" takes youth culture and the visual culture of brands as a starting point to investigate this complex correlation and incisively analyses the multifaceted dynamic of branding culture. This large format publication is critical, challenging and at the same time a theoretical expedition into the world of branding, penetrating a topic that is widely researched yet difficult to keep abreast of due to its ceaseless development. Presented in an exciting collage with manifold layers of text and photography pervading...
ISBN: 978-3-89955-227-0
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: август 2011
On a warm weekday in October, in the lovely summer home of Gerald and Jessie Burlingame, a game is about to begin. It`s a game to be played between husband and wife, and a game that has Jessie being innocently handcuffed to the bedposts. Then, in one horrible, violent act, Gerald is dead and Jessie - well, she`s alone and still chained to the bed. But Jessie`s about to have company that goes beyond all of her worst nightmares.
ISBN: 0451176464
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002
A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald`s Game. But this time Jesse didn`t want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he`d loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she`
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0745-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Géricault, Delacroix und Daumier sind die herausragenden Meister der französischen Lithographie der 1. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ihr lithographisches Werk bildet einen Glanzpunkt innerhalb der Geschichte der neueren Graphik. Das reich bebilderte Buch zeigt erstmals eine umfangreiche Privatsammlung mit wichtigen Werkgruppen dieser drei Künstler sowie Arbeiten von Künstlern aus deren Umfeld. Faszinierend sind Théodore Géricaults Schilderungen des alltäglichen Lebens und seine großartigen Pferdedarstellungen. Eugène Delacroix ließ sich hauptsächlich von literarischen Themen inspirieren und schuf Zyklen zu Faust, Hamlet und Götz von Berlichingen. Honoré Daumier lieferte...
ISBN: 978-3-86568-403-5
Издательство:
Michael Imhof Verlag
Дата выхода: август 2011
