After being chased from the home of an upper-class young girl called Ellie, chimney-sweep Tom falls asleep and tumbles into a river. There he is transformed into a "water-baby" and his adventures truly begin. Beneath the surface, he enters a magical world full of strange and wonderful creatures, where he must prove his moral worth in order to earn what he truly desires. One of the most unusual children's books ever written, "The Water-Babies", subtitled "A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby", was originally intended as a satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Now a major motion picture with a hugely star studded cast, featuring the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas and Selena Gomez. 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. Doctor Dolittle is one of the most delightful and fascinating characters in children's literature. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Story of Doctor Dolittle is ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Rather than be "sivilized" by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn - the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk - sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on their tail, they navigate a world of robbers, slave hunters and con men, and Huck must choose between what society says is "right" and his own burgeoning understanding of Jim's friendship and humanity. Nostalgic and melancholy in equal measure, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is a razor-sharp ... |
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Dialogo entre teoria y practica. La didáctica de lenguas de par en par. Diálogo entre teoría y práctica es un homenaje a Ernesto Martín Peris, una de las personas a quien más le debemos quienes nos dedicamos al mundo del español como lengua extranjera (ELE); si no lo sabes, en las primeras páginas del libro descubrirás por qué. Este libro se divide en tres bloques y contiene los siguientes artículos: Enseñanza y aprendizaje Investigación y práctica docente en L2: de la mano y en movimiento. Elisa Rosado y Jaume Batlle Plurilingüismo e ... |
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Монографията на гл. ас. д-р Анета Атанасова е забележително успешен, закономерен резултат от многолетните научни търсения и психологическата практика на авторката с деца и младежи с разстройство от аутистичния спектър. Анализите и обобщенията в нейния научен труд са основани на 293 информационни източника. Професионално заинтересованият читател получава при запознаването с текста необходима, навременна и съвсем конкретна информация, защото д-р Атанасова успява да обхване, компетентно интерпретира и интегрира в хармонична смислова цялост извънредно широк кръг от теоретични, диагностични, методични, терапевтични и чисто ... |
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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. ... |
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This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their "trick endings" or "twists in the tail": repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso&# ... |
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Съставители: Донка Петрова, Герасим Петрински, Росица Йорданова , Мина Тасева-Бенчева. ... Сборникът в чест на 75-годишнината на проф. д.ф.н. Донка Александрова отразява широтата на интересите и постиженията ѝ и "реториката с нейните много лица". В книгата читателят ще намери текстове, написани от учени от целия свят, с които проф. Александрова се е срещнала през своето житейско пътешествие. ... |
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One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road... A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure. Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... For the past two centuries these delightful stories, gathered together and written down by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , have entertained and frightened children and adults alike. The lives of "Tom Thumb", "Cinderella", "Rumplestiltskin" and "The Frog Prince" form part of our common heritage: they stimulate the imagination and the heart, and linger at the back of our minds for a lifetime. They are funny, disturbing, wise and compassionate. They speak of joy and terror, happiness and revenge, love and violence. ... |
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Хайме Хил де Биедма (1929 - 1990) е испански поет, ярък представител на поколението на 50-те години на XX век, включващо писатели новатори, добили известност след Гражданската война. Роден е в Барселона, в заможно семейство от кръга на висшата буржоазия. Следва право в Университетите на Барселона и Саламанка, през 1953 г. заминава за Оксфорд, където се запознава със съвременната англоезична поезия, оказала силно влияние върху цялото му творчество, най-вече Елиът , Одън, Спендър. Самият Биедма споделя, че смята Англия за своя втора родина. Не по-малък интерес предизвиква у него поезията на френските поети символисти ... |
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