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The Collector's Library: Everlasting Diary
Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20162016-07-24
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To celebrate the first ten successful years of The Collector's Library, this everlasting literary diary has been specially commissioned from Rosemary Gray. It contains apposite quotes for each day from books in the series, and throughout contains illustrations taken from the best-loved titles. Because each day is dated, but not named, it is suitable for use in any calendar year — or perhaps as a birthday and anniversary book. It is uniform in size with the rest of The Collector's Library, and will make an elegant and handy keepsake.
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Alice in Wonderland Everlasting Diary
Автор: Carroll Lewis Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20162017-02-24
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This everlasting literary diary has been specially commissioned from Rosemary Gray. It has one page per day, and each contains apposite quotes taken from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass and one of Sir John Tenniel's superb illustrations. Because each day is dated, but not named, it is suitable for use in any calendar year — or perhaps as a birthday and anniversary book. It is uniform in size with the rest of The Collector's Library, and will make an elegant and handy keepsake. 2014 is the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventure's Under Ground, the manuscript that Lewis Carroll presented to Alice Liddell and which was developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865. Sir John Tenniel was a British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of the 19th century. He was the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his artistic achievements in 1893.
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The Art of War
Автор: Sun Tzu Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 184 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20182016-07-14
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This is a new translation of The Art of War for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. This edition also contains a full commentary on Sun Tzu, the man and his ideas, contemporary of Confucius and Buddha; and a critical guide to further reading. This is the perfect introduction to one of the world's best-known classics.
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Aesop's Fables
Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20182019-08-03
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This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop fables in a collection that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites — the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and steady tortoise — just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience. While their lifespan over several millennia marks them out as one of the most enduring staples of world literature, they have also been the inspiration for countless other forms of narrative in various languages. For all their entertainment value — this is a world where even a lamp and the moon can speak, and mice taunt bulls — they have also come to be fondly regarded as a playful compendium of secular wisdom.
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Barchester Towers
Автор: Trollope Anthony Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20152018-08-14
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Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope, the smooth Archdeacon Grantly and his father-in-law, the saintly Mr Harding. Barchester Towers is one of Trollope's best-loved novels and captures nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterisation.
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Black Beauty
Автор: Sewell Anna Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow, to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman, to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails — in a gentle, nineteenth-century manner — against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all.
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Cider with Rosie
Автор: Lee Laurie Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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Cider with Rosie is the first part of the poet Laurie Lee's (1914-1997) autobiographical trilogy. It describes his life in the Gloucestershire village of Slad from his earliest years until he was twenty. He tells of thin winters, fat summers, local legends and ghosts, of neighbours and relations, and of growing up against a half-pagan landscape in which violence and madness, country follies and feasts were all part of one pastoral mess-pot.
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Madame Bovary
Автор: Flaubert Gustave Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20182017-09-12
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Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless country doctor. She tries to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she always dreamed about. Flaubert's daring description of adultery and sinfulness caused a national scandal when it was first published, and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today. Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Автор: Doyle A.C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 436 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092005-12-20
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest collection of detective short stories ever written. From his residence at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes solves a series of baffling and bizarre cases using his inimitable deductive powers, recounted to us by the faithful though sometimes bemused Dr Watson.
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The Aeneid
Автор: Virgil Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092005-12-20
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Virgil's epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who abandons his city after its fall, taking with him his father Anchises and his little son Ascanius, for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. On his journey Aeneas must prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles terrifying storms, encounters the fearsome Cyclops, falls in love with the beautiful Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels to the Underworld and fights a war in Italy. It is a story that has been inspirational for generations of artists, writers and musicians, including Dante, Milton, Purcell and Turner.
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The Age Of Innocence
Автор: Wharton Edith Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 376 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082006-05-18
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As the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. Sensitive and intelligent, he respects the rigid social codes of his class, and is thankful that his forthcoming marriage to May Welland is to 'one of his own kind'. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows he discovers how difficult it is to escape the bounds of the society that has shaped him. Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is at once a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical portrait of a vanished world.
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Bleak House (ill: )
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 1288 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20082010-03-26
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At the court of Chancery, the interminable law suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce rolls on and on, encompassing so many diverse characters in its thrall like the fog that smothers the great city of London, including Esther Summerson, the heroine of the novel and one of Dickens' more feisty and characterful leading ladies. We are drawn in and fascinated by the complex set of relationships at all levels of society, from Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock, cocooned in their stately home in Lincolnshire, to Jo, the crossing sweeper in the hell hole known as Tom-All-Alone's. In none of Charles Dickens' other novels is the canvas broader, the sweep more inclusive, the linguistic texture richer and the gallery of comic grotesques more extraordinary. While Bleak House is a condemnation of the corruption at the heart of English society, it is also a love story and a murder mystery. And, it is wonderful entertainment.
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The Call Of The Wilde and White Fang
Автор: London Jack Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 376 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082006-05-18
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Presented together in one volume, here are two of the greatest and most popular animal stories ever written. Even to designate them 'animal stories' seems to undervalue them since these tremendous works are so much more than mere children's tales. The Call of the Wild tells how Buck, a domestic dog, is kidnapped from California to pull sleds in the Arctic wastes. In the second story, White Fang, three-quarter wolf and one-quarter dog, endures considerable suffering in the Arctic before being taken to live in California. The two narratives are remarkable for the vividness of their descriptions and the success with which London imagines life from a non-human perspective.
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The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes
Автор: Doyle A.C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Conan Doyle's last twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Compared with earlier collections these tales are darker, exploring such themes as treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity, and containing such gothic touches as a blood-sucking vampire and crypts at midnight.
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A Christmas Carol
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092005-12-20
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A Christmas Carol was an overnight success when first published in 1843, and was followed by two further Christmas books, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, also included in this volume. But A Christmas Carols Ebenezer Scooge is one of Dickenss most unforgettable characters, a miserable skinflint without equal. Even he, however, can be redeemed by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Автор: Dumas A. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 1152 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20112011-05-28
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This classic adventure, set in nineteenth-century France and Italy, tells the story of Edmund Dants, a young man falsely imprisoned who eventually finds himself in a position of power and able to seek his revenge against those who plotted against him. Eventually he begins to question his obsessive search for revenge.
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Crime and Punishment
Автор: Dostoevsky F. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 734 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20122010-12-13
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Crime and Punishment is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. Raskolnikov, a poor student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, and then has to face up to the moral consequences of his actions. The novel is compelling and rewarding, full of meaning and symbolism, and raises profound questions about the individual and society, and the nature of free will.
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David Copperfield
Автор: Dickens C. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 1264 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092007-04-22
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Dicken's tale of David Copperfield follows him from birth through to his successful career as a novelist. The novel boasts a famously rich cast of outlandish characters: the glamorous Steerforth, the cheerful Mr Micawber, the villainous Uriah Heep and David's eccentric aunt Betsy Trotwood, among others. Dickens described this energetic and enjoyable novel as his 'favourite child' and it is easy to see why.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Автор: Stevenson R.L. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 311 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092007-02-23
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a masterpiece of Victorian literature and one of the most potent and enduring of modern myths. Why has Dr Jekyll begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr Hyde? When Jekyll's friend Utterson tries to solve this mystery he uncovers a horrific story of murder and suffering which leads eventually to the terrible revelation of Mr Hyde's true identity. Also in this volume are three other memorable stories: The Body Snatchers, Markheim and Olalla.
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Dracula
Автор: Stocker B. Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20092005-07-24
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When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalise a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula he little suspects that he is unleashing a terrible evil on his fellow countrymen. In this classic novel about vampires Stoker captured the fears of his age. Dracula represents everything the Victorians feared: the irrational, the pagan, the erotic and the foreign.
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