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Greenmantle
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20122014-08-27
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley. Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in The Thirty-Nine Steps, Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.As well as being a gripping adventure story, Greenmantle is surprisingly modern in the concept of using a Jihad to mobilise Muslim forces, and is disturbingly relevant to the modern world.
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Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20122014-03-18
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A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike. Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays.
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The afterword for this edition is by David Stuart Davies. The challenge and pleasure of these stories is the simultaneous appeal to both child and adult with their themes of love, truth and sacrifice, which are as relevant today as when they were written. In this collection are to be found some of the brightest gems from the treasure trove of Oscar Wilde's incomparable writing.
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Hard Times
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
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Irish Ghost Stories
Автор: David Stuart Davies Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112012-10-20
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Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural — from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings. Stories and storytelling have always been central to Irish folk culture, and this anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, George Moore and W. B. Yeats. The result is a collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees that will chill the blood of readers and listeners alike.
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The Jungle Book
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies. The Jungle Book shows Kipling's writing for children at its best. It is a collection of short stories and poems, revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. We meet the tiger Shere Khan who attacked and drove off Mowgli's parents, Bagheera, the black panther, Baloo 'the sleepy brown bear, and the evil python, Kaa. Other stories include Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal and Toomai of the Elephants, and the book contains the original illustrations of J Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) and W H Drake.
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Kidnapped
Автор: Robert Louis Stevenson Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 364 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20132012-04-07
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, is kidnapped, and falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself.Modern critics see the novel as more than a boy's adventure yarn; at the heart of it lies what Henry James described as the 'really excellent' chapters of the flight in the heather that raise the novel to greatness.
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Limericks
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20102010-12-07
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The Limerick packs laughs anatomical into space that is quite economical, but the good ones I've seen so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so rarely are comical. This collection of witty Limericks, some clean, many filthy, and some packed with double-entendre has been assembled to add gaiety to nations. It contains over 1,000 Limericks historical, wistful, whimsical, clerical, medical, cynical and gastronomical, all of which will delight connoisseurs of the English language.
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Macbeth
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20122014-03-18
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Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror — killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20122014-03-18
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the magic begins. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and ultimately restored.
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The Riddle of the Sands
Автор: Erskine Childers Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by Ned Halley.
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Romeo and Juliet
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968. A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.
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Silas Marner
Автор: George Eliot Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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Combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism, this is an unsentimental, yet affectionate portrait of rural life. Its protagonist, a man wrongly accused and exiled is given a chance to achieve true happiness through his care of an orphaned girl.
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Sonnets
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-04-25
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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published — that is to say, entered at Stationers' Hall by the publisher Thomas Thorpe — on 20th May 1609. This 400th-anniversary edition contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy, and are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from his plays. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and for many they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.
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The Thirty-nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 152 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102009-12-23
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
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The Wizard of Oz
Автор: Lyman Frank Baum Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 182 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20152014-06-05
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.This is the story of Dorothy and her little dog Toto who are carried away from Kansas by a cyclone and transported to the wonderful world of Oz. She meets three companions — the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion — and the three journey to the Emerald City of Oz to ask the Wizard of Oz to give them their heart's desires, which in Dorothy's case is to return home to Kansas.On their way to Oz and while fulfilling the tasks that the surprising Wizard asks of them they encounter witches, winged monkeys, the Deadly Desert, fighting trees and magic shoes.
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Best Fairy Stories of the World
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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An anthology that brings together «The Frog Who Became an Emperor from China», «The Thee Billy Goats Gruff from Norway», and «Pinocchio» from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde, among many others.
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Best Ghost Stories
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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The short story is the perfect format for traditional ghost stories. They have their roots in folklore, but in modern form they can be traced back to the romanticised writers of the Gothic tradition. Authors include Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, F. Marion Crawford, Elizabeth Gaskell and H. H. Munro (Saki). Perhaps the finest exponent of the genre was M. R. James whose sly, academic tales are well represented in this collection, as well as those of Le Fanu, whom James acknowledged as his inspiration. This is a book to be relished by the fireside, with the curtains drawn against ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night.
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A Boxful of Ghosts
Автор: M. R. James Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 1872 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20122013-02-23
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The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles — the superb, donnish tales of M.R. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker — and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set. It includes Charles Dicken's famous tales of the supernatural, as well as stories from other great literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, E.F. Benson, John Buchan and Sir Walter Scott. This box will make a handsome gift for those who appreciate the macabre, the unearthly and the plain scary, and this limited edition offers a considerable saving over the purchase of the four books individually.
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Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Автор: Jane Austen Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 880 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20112010-06-28
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Jane Austen is perhaps the best-loved of all English novelists. Her knowledge of human nature is remarkable, and her awareness of the importance of class, money and appearances makes her a peculiarly modern author. She addresses the politics of dating, courtship and mating with an incisive intelligence that both foreshadows and outstrips romantic novels of today. Her teasing novels of gentle worldliness have been brought to new audiences by modern film and television productions, and this complete edition of her novels with its charmingly evocative illustrations by Hugh Thomson will be a welcome addition to any library or collection of books. It is quarter bound in bonded leather, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, gilt top edge, and illustrated front and back boards. This edition contains the magical pen-and-ink drawings by the master of period illustration, Hugh Thomson, whose illustrations in The Collector's Library have won such acclaim.
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