Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "To love makes one solitary, she thought." On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own ... |
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Книгата е част от поредицата за детско-юношеска класика - "Златно перо". ... Колоритни и сладкодумни като приказки, българските предания и легенди ни разкриват вярванията на нашия народ, начина, по който си е обяснявал създаването на света, небесните светила, човека, животните, дърветата, природните явления – като дъжд, бури, светкавици и гръмотевици. Освен това те дават богата информация за бита на българина и за знаменателни събития от неговата история. Подборът на преданията и легендите е направен съобразно учебната програма. ... |
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time as a riverboat captain in the Belgian Congo. From the mists of London we are whisked to the darkness of Africa's colonial heart - and into the thrall of the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is one of the great classics of the late nineteenth century. This edition features illustrations by Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Joseph Syddall, and an afterword by Philip Mallett, editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal. Tess Durbeyfield's father ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In this hugely influential, groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds himself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful, but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear - the Eloi are not the only race to have inherited the earth. When his time machine disappears, the Time ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale, in which Pip encounters such famous characters as Miss Havisham, Herbert Pocket and Joe Gargery, he comes to realize that his money is tainted and the girl he loves will not return his affections; happiness must be found in the things he gave up in pursuit of a more ... |
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern ... |
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George Orwell 's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Why has the mild mannered Dr. Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr. Hyde? And why are they never seen together? When Jekyll's old friend Utterson tries to solve these mysteries he uncovers a horrific story of suffering and brutality that eventually leads to the terrible revelation of Mr. Hyde's true identity. Accompanied here by three other memorable stories of horror, murder and the supernatural, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic literature by Robert Louis Stevenson, and one of the most ... |
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Като самопровъзгласил се "поборник за правата на дребните грозници" Джералд Даръл (1925 - 1995) посвещава живота си на съхраняването на природата и животинския свят, без значение дали става въпрос за розовия гълъб от остров Мавриций или за плодовия прилеп на Родригес. Но освен че защитава животните, той и пише забавно и информативно за своя опит и преживелици, докато обикаля света в издирване на животински видове. Намерението му точно преди 60 години при написването на "Моето семейство и други животни" е било да сподели знанията си за дивата природа на остров Корфу, но в крайна сметка се оказва ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic license of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular 'room of one's own', prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential. As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theaters, A Room of One's Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an ... |
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"Човек забравило себе си обича." ... "Съвременната българска литература започва - а според някои и свършва - с Виктор Пасков. В "Балада за Георг Хених" диша, говори и страда, за да изкупи за пореден път греховете на всички ни, самият Господ. Необичаен евангелист е Виктор Пасков. Но с тази книга, едно от най-важните произведения в (не само) съвременната българска литература, той пристъпи към вечността. Ние сме дъските в ръцете на стария майстор Георг. Сами трябва да изберем дали да ни превърне във виола, или пък в бюфет. Онези, които ще изберат виолата, са читателите на Балада за Георг Хених. И в ... |