With an introduction by Rachel Cusk. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Age of Innocence", is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist, Rachel Cusk. As the scion of ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot's most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of "The Mill on the Floss" features an introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes. Maggie Tulliver and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... 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. Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin's strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature. In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is on holiday ... |
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Selected Short Stories. 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. Lord Peter Wimsey, wealthy, charming and charismatic, is one of the most famous amateur detectives of the golden age of crime. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates is introduced and edited by crime writer David Stuart Davies. The fifteen short stories in this lively and witty ... |
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Introduced by Joanna Trollope. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A complex and truly timeless emotion, love - whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation - has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by bestselling author, and Romantic Novelist Association prize-winner, Joanna ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's original illustrations and an afterword by novelist Paul Bailey. Proud to be ensconced with his wife Carrie at The Laurels in the desirable London suburb of Holloway, bank clerk ... |
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Тифани е изключително изискан, скъп и прочут бижутериен магазин в Ню Йорк, разположен на Пето Авеню номер 727, който се превръща в истинска легенда, и то в световен мащаб, след романа на Труман Капоти Закуска в Тифани (публикуван през 1958 г.). Книгата става знаково произведение за големия писател и го превръща в жив класик. Романът получава такава известност, че сега бижутерийният магазин се рекламира чрез него и чрез едноименния филм по сценарий на Капоти. Изпълнението на Одри Хепбърн в Закуска в Тифани се смята за най-доброто в цялата ѝ кариера. Филмът пожънва невероятен успех, отнася голям брой номинации и ... |
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Св. апостол и евангелист Лука
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Второ издание. ... Великият подвиг на изповедничество и мъченичество за Христа, просиял в Русия през трагичния XX век - подвиг на огромно множество почти съвременни нам православни християни, е явление с недостижима за нас, немощните и грешни люде, духовна висота. Многочислен сонм вярващи - епископи, свещеници, монаси и най-обикновени хора - в дни на пълно наглед тържество на злото, в дни на предателство и отстъпление, на страх и измяна показват вяра, сравнима по своята сила с вярата на древните християнски мъченици. Те гинат в затвори и лагери, понасят с изумително търпение нечувани унижения и страдания, но не отстъпват ... |
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The Greatest Short Stories - Vol. 2 (Adapted Books), is a selection from the best of classic short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters in the genres of adventure, fantasy, horror, thriller mystery, romance, and realist fiction. Readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin, and The Return of a Private by Hamlin Garland. The book has approximately three thousand headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text has ... |
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Adapted Book. This remarkable collection features short stories by great nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Beginning with Washington Irving's masterpieces - The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker, the volume also includes humorous short stories by Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog) and Ellis Parker Butler (Pigs Is Pigs); fantastic and dark tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Rappaccini's Daughter) and Fitz-James O'Brien (The Diamond Lens); realistic stories by Herman Melville (Bartleby) and the Pulitzer-winner Willa Cather (Paul's Case); a crime story by Edgar ... |
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Главният герой на романа Щастието е възможно е писател, който е разделен със съпругата си Тамара и живее в покрайнините на Москва. Голямо издателство му възлага да напише позитивен роман. Той описва чужди съдби, като дори не се опитва да разгадае своята. Не само наблюдава, но и инициира щастието на хора около себе си. Тамара обаче продължава да го посещава заедно с нов любим, на когото писателят дори показва най-добрите места за риболов с истинско будистко спокойствие. Неочаквано, неволно, любовният триъгълник придобива странни форми и победител е... изоставеният съпруг. Възможно ли е щастието?"Сякаш идва от нищото, ... |
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Те ще жертват всичко в името на любовта. Джека Лейтън е художничка и мечтае творбите ѝ да станат световноизвестни. Работата в художествената галерия не я удовлетворява, тя чувства, че пропилява артистичната се дарба. По настояване на най-близката си приятелка Ким, дизайнерка на бижута, Джека временно загърбва безмилостния нюйоркски свят на изкуството и се завръща в Едилин. Ще рисува, а и ще види отново чаровния Рийд. Но съдбата понякога има други планове. Доктор Тристан Олдридж не може да забрави Джека. Макар срещата им да е била мимолетна, той още пази снимката ѝ. И щом научава за завръщането ѝ в ... |
