HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Money`s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.` Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future - one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and scheming dilettante.

ISBN: 978-0-00-790228-6
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and wishes to create her own future, rather than finding it as a wife. Consequently she refuses two very eligible suitors: Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, who has followed her to Europe from America. When her uncle Lord Touchett dies, leaving Isabel a fortune, he unwittingly does her a great disservice, for on a visit to Italy she is introduced by Madame Merle to Gilbert Osmond. Osmond is a charming but worthless dilettante who sees Isabel as a beautiful prize, a mother for his daughter Pansy, and a source of easily attained...

ISBN: 0140622497
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2002

This book includes an introduction by Stape, St Mary`s College, Strawberry Hill. Enormously influential on all later biographies of Jane Austen, the "Memoir of Jane Austen" (1869) by her nephew James Edward Austen - Leigh enjoys the privileged perspective of first-hand knowledge. It displays the deft touch of a man trained in the compassionate observation of human fallibility and virtue. Austen-Leigh`s highly readable and affectionate account of his aunt offers a vividly compelling portrait of Jane Austen`s habits and personality. Accompanied by the novella "Lady Susan" and the unfinished "The Watsons", this edition is simply essential reading for any admirer of a writer whom Virginia Woolf called `the most perfect artist among women`.

ISBN: 978-1-84022-560-0
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011

`Daisy Miller` is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James (1843-1916), then living in London, his first international success. Like many of James`s early works, it portrays a venturesome American girl in the treacherous waters of European society - a theme that would culminate in his 1881 masterpiece,`The Portrait of a Lady`. On the surface, `Daisy Miller` unfolds a simple story of a young American girl`s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. But throughout the narrative, James...

ISBN: 0-486-28773-4
Издательство: Dover
Дата выхода: июль 2005

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (nee Eastman, formerly See, September 24 1941 – April 17 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune. She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on March 12, 1969, and was a member of Wings. The McCartneys had four children together: Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, whom Paul McCartney adopted in 1969), Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. Linda became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997. McCartney wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the...

ISBN: 978-6-1317-5147-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Битрейт: 192 kbps Время: 8ч.08мин. 100 звездных блюз-баллад. На диске: Led Zeppelin, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, Bob Seger, Oscar Benton, Bonnie Raitt, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Ray Charles, Santana, Ten Years After, Grand Funk Railroad, J.J.Cale, Blind Faith, Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Thin Lizzy, Ry Cooder, Blues Company, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Tyler и др. 1   Since I've Been Loving You (Page/Plant)/Led Zeppelin (7:23) 2   I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (Kooper)/Blood, Sweat & Tears (5:56) 3   I Loved Another Woman (Green)/Fleetwood Mac (2:54) 4   Red...

Производитель: RMG
Дата выхода: июль 2004

Битрейт: 192 kbps Время: 8ч.12мин. Содержание диска : 1. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra (1927-1928), The Duke\'s Men: Small Groups (1934-1938) : 2. Vol.1, 3. Vol.2, Braggin\' In Brass: The Immortal 1938 Year (1938): 4. Vol.1, 5. Vol.2, The Blanton-Webster Band (1939): 6. Vol.1, 7. Vol.2, 8. Vol.3 + Фотографии. 1. DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA (1927-1928) 1  (1)  Wahington Wobble (D.Ellington) (2:55) 2  (2)  Creole Love Call (Ellington/Jackson/Miley) (3:14) 3  (3)  The Blues I Love To Sing (Ellington/Miley) (3:06) 4  (4)  Black And Tan Fantasie (Ellington/Miley) (3:10) 5  (5)  Washington Wobble...

Производитель: RMG
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004

Битрейт: 192 kbps Время: 8ч.11мин. Содержание диска : 1. Ella Fitzgerald Sings Duke Ellington Vol.1 (1957), 2. Ella Fitzgerald Sings Duke Ellington Vol.2 (1957), 3. Ella Fitzgerald Sings Duke Ellington Vol.3 (1957), 4. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess (1958), 5. The Harold Arlen Songbook (1961), 6. Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson (1962), 7. Ella Sings Broadway (1962), 8. These Are The Blues (1963), 9. The Jerome Kern Songbook (1964), 10. The Johnny Mercer Songbook (1964) + Фотографии. 1. ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS DUKE ELLINGTON VOL.1 (1957) 1  (1)  Rockin' In Rhythm (Carney/Ellington/Mills) (5:20) 2  (2)  Drop Me Off In Harlem...

Производитель: RMG
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004