Faithful reproduction of the Great Game of the Oracle of the Ladies. Surely one of the most fascinating and mysterious esoteric decks: the author, Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette) published it between 1783 and 1787, in Paris and Amsterdam. The author stated that the game of Tarot derived directly from the legendary "Book of Thoth", a magical text of ancient Egypt to be rediscovered through these cards. Reproduction of the Great Game of the Oracle of Dames, printed in Paris in 1870. 78 cards with dimensions 6.6 x 12 cm and instruction booklet included. ... |
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The much-anticipated first book in a brand-new duology by New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo . Face your demons or feed them. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war - and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a ... |
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Историята на човечеството като филм? А нашият живот - като кратък клип във филма? Има истории и личности в Библията, които са емблематични за различни житейски ситуации и човешки качества. За тях, толкова популярни, но същевременно непознати, се разказва на тези страници. Историите на Адам и Ева, Авраам, Исаак и Яков, Йов и Давид - и накрая Христос - оживяват в нашето съвремия с много свеж хумор и самоирония, пречупени през личните преживявания на автора. Забавни и мъдри, тези разкази ни провокират да спрем за момент и да се замислим за наистина важните неща в човешкия живот. Здравко Ненов е роден през 1945 г. По ... |
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Бестселър на "Ню Йорк Таймс", "Пъблишърс Уикли", "Ю Ес Ей Тудей", "Уолстрийт Джърнъл", "Инди Баунд" и "Амазон". ... Преди хиляда години ангелът Разиел смесил своята кръв с човешка и създал Нефилимите. Полухора, полуангели, те бродят в нашия свят невидими, но винаги край нас - те са нашите защитници. Наричат себе си Ловци на сенки. Ловците на сенки следват законите, записани в Сивата книга, дадена им от ангела. Тяхната мисия е да защитават нашия свят, от нашествениците идващи от други измерения и наречени демони - същества които бродят между световете и унищожават ... |
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Based on the story of J. M. Barrie . Text adaptation by Alex Raynham . ... Peter Pan is the boy who never grows up. He lives in Neverland, an island with fairies and pirates--and he isn't real. Or is he? Wendy and her brothers learn the truth when Peter and the fairy Tinkerbell come and take them all to Neverland. Neverland is wonderful and dangerous. Peter Pan is real, but so are the pirates, and their terrible leader, Captain Hook. Peter cut off Hook's hand, and now Hook wants revenge. Who will win - Pan or Hook? And Will Wendy and her brothers ever go home to London? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive ... |
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Романът, по който е заснет сериалът "Бриджъртън" по Netflix, предизвикал сензационен зрителски интерес. ... Запознайте се с Бриджъртън - уважавано семейство от английската аристокрация. Лейди Бриджъртън, вдовица и майка на осем деца, е твърдо решена да задоми подобаващо отрочетата си. Лейди Дафни Бриджъртън е четвъртото от осемте деца. Хората я харесват заради нейната доброта и духовитост. Но заради своята прямота тя не е сред най-ухажваните млади дами. Любезността не е качество, което Саймън Басет, херцог Хейстингс, притежава. Наскоро завърнал се от чужбина, той възнамерява да страни от висшето общество точно ... |
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Based on the story of Gaston Leroux . Retold by Jennifer Bassett . ... It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers... But who has actually seen him? Finalist of The Language Learner Literature Award 2004. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written ... |
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In traditional societies, the individual exists only as far as taking its place in a group, a place that is often destined from birth in a social hierarchy. It is governed by the collective beliefs, rules and norms shared by all present that are not in dispute, because they come "from above" - transcendence based on social connections and "pre" - mythical past and valuable. The modern man of the XXI-the century chooses his preferred beliefs and values in a pluralistic world, where conflicting values co-exist and are subject to the critique of reason. The past is no longer a perfect world, ... |
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Based on the award-wining novel. ... This inimitable American road trip tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday who employs him to serve as his bodyguard - thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Lucas, World fantasy and Nebula award-winning epic novel and hit "Amazon Prime video" TV series by international bestseller Neil Gaiman is adapted ... |
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The No. 1 "New York Times" Best-Selling Series. "Fables" is the winner of 14 Eisner Awards. ... Who Killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case - and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams."Fables: Legends in Exile" collects the first five issues of writer and creator Bill Willingham's award-winning "Vertigo" series (superbly illustrated by Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and ... |
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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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Библиографският указател е първото и единствено у нас справочно издание, което установява и регистрира всички издадени в България литературно-художествени сборници, алманаси и антологии и без подбор разкрива аналитично тяхното съдържание. По този начин дава пълна картина на публикуваните по страниците на тази категория документи художествени произведения и представлява нова основа за проучвания на литературния живот през разглеждания период. Чрез системата от различни видове показалци представя в удобна форма разкритото съдържание за бързи и ефективни справки. Кирил Георгиев Ставрев е роден на 20.01.1939 г. в Дупница. ... |