Based on the story of Robert Louis Stevenson . Retold by Rosemary Border . ... You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? Classics, modern ... |
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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop ... |
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Ирина Щиглич и Теодора Павлович, заедно с прочутия български женски камерен хор “Васил Арнаудов” са регистрирали подбрани песни от Шуман. Почти всичките са композирани през 40-те години на ХІХ в., прекрасно време за Шуман, намерил най-после истинското щастие на живота си. В тях са изразени най-съкровени чувства, радости и тъги, възторзи, впечатления и инспирации от поезията на любимите му Мьорике, Рюкерт, Айхендорф, Елизабет Кулман и други немски поети, вдъхновявали много композитори на романтичната музика. Истински бисери са малките песни като “Розмарин”, “Майска песен”, “Пролетна песен”, “Спинелиед”, също и хорът от ... |
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Based on the story of Robert E. Howard . Text adaptation by Bill Bowler . ... When Conan the Barbarian follows Valeria the Pirate south, he surprises her. Together they escape from a fierce dragon, and enter a strange city in the desert, looking for treasure. Two enemy clans live there, and Conan and Valeria are soon asked to join in the war between them. This adventure story - full of battles, magic, and terrible monsters - is about two friendly fighters. But who are their enemies? And what is the secret of the black pillar with the red nails in it? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers ... |
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A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination, "in which the detective solves the crime by investigation and observation, by using his or her wits". Douglas G. Greene, a widely recognized authority in the field of mystery fiction, provides an introduction and informative headnotes for the stories. Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely acknowledged as the first detective story; Charles Dickens ' " ... |
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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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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway 's 1927 classic, "The Killers". Other selections include Poe 's "The Tell-Tale Heart", Melville's "Bartleby", Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp", "To Build a Fire", by Jack London , "The Real Thing" by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair& ... |
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Основен мотив на книгата е нишката на съдбата, която предопределя изключително интересен живот изпълнен с превратности и приключения, които понякога изглеждат невероятни. Нишката на съдбата в моя живот е мемоарна книга за доц. д-р Иванка Кирова. Тя е автор на книгите Природосъобразен живот , Духовните тела в теб , Живях в Коми и други. Д-р Кирова също така е автор в рубриката Човекознание на вестника със статии За духовно и душевно здраве, Природосъобразен живот, За духа на българския народ. Доцент д-р Иванка Кирова , к.м.н. е пионер у нас в научната разработка, внедряването и популяризирането на направлението за ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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Съставител: Марек Томс . ... Тази книга е повествование за най-вълнуващите и интригуващи събития във футболния свят на XXI век. За футболистите Роберт Левандовски, Роналдиньо, Стивън Джерард, Луис Суарес, Кака, Тиери Анри, Франческо Тоти, Неймар, Килиан Мбапе, Лука Модрич, Томас Мюлер, Лионел Меси, Кристиано Роналдо - имената им са добре познати на футболните фенове, а и не само на тях. Книгата разглежда не само футболните срещи, майсторските головете, точните или пропуснати удари, но и поведението на играчите, на техните страсти и съдби. Сега можете да се докоснете до футболните легенди и да си припомните вълнуващи ... |
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Edited by Ursula Doyle. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, "Love Letters of Great Men" collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. 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 is edited and introduced by publisher Ursula Doyle. For some of these great men, love is a "delicious ... |
