Удивително пътешествие през времето и през необятните пространства на човешкото въображение. Предстои ви да поемете на фантастично пътешествие... Тази необикновена книга ще ви поведе на удивително пътешествие през времето и през необятните пространства на човешкото въображение. Ще се озовете на места в различни части на света. Някои от тях са съвсем реални, за други до нас са достигнали писмени източници, но и до днес не сме открили и следа от тях. За трети знаем само от приказките и легендите. Но независимо дали са реални, или не, тези места са важна част от човешката история и култура, защото бележат етапи от пътя, ... |
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One day, while Hank Morgan is working, a man attacks him and hits him on the head. When Hank wakes up he is in sixth century England. He is at the Court of King Arthur where he meets the Knights of the Round Table and Queen Guenever. Thanks to his superior knowledge, Hank soon becomes the King's chief minister and plans to modernise the country, but things do not always go according to plan... Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in the novel who tells the story of Hank organ, the boss of a factory in late 19th century Connecticut, who awakens to find himself transported back in time to ... |
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Умален модел на руския крайцер - "Варяг". Дължина на модела 37 cm. Руският бронепалубен крайцер "Варяг" е построен в периода 1898-1899 година в корабостроителницата на William Cramp and Sons, в американския щат Филаделфия. Кораба е предаден на руския военно-морски флот през 1900 година, а през 1901 започва активната му служба, като се базира в руското пристанище Порт-Артур. Водоизместимостта на "Варяг" е 6500 тона, способен е да развива 23 възела. Главното въоръжение се състои от 12x152 mm оръдия, допълнени от 12x75 mm, 8x47 mm оръдия и 6x450 mm торпедни апарата. На 9 февруари 1904 година ... |
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Edgar Allan Poe's only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature. His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is a town in America, near the sea. People from Nantucket are often sailors. His grandfather is a lawyer. He's famous and he's very rich. Gordon Pym is very lucky. He is only eighteen years old, but he as a small boat. Its name is the Ariel. He often goes sailing on the Ariel, near Nantucket. He has a good education and a dream: he wants to go to sea. This is the story of his adventures at sea. He meets pirates, a ghost ship, and storms. He ... |
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A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two brothers - these are only some of the apparently unsolvable cases contained in this volume, which the great sleuth, assisted by his trusted friend Doctor Watson, is challenged to clear up with the aid of his sagacity and unrivalled analytical skills. Published a quarter of a century after the first book of Holmes adventures, and including the famous titular story His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes, this collection shows the detective&# ... |
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Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutches of a roguish aristocrat and suspected murderer; a retired art-supply dealer asks him to investigate the suspicious disappearance of his wife with a neighbour and a stash of money; a veteran of the Boer War appeals to him to track down a missing friend; a man has become convinced that his wife has been sucking their baby son's blood. Will the most famous of sleuths be persuaded to offer his services and set off in ... |
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I know every move of your game... It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes... If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you. With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. The collection culminates in The Final Problem, in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective’s downfall. Soon Holmes and Watson are led across Europe in a deadly pursuit of their devilish ... |
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From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in The Adventure of the Speckled Band, mystified by a missing thumb in The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and beguiled by a beautiful opera singer in A Scandal in Bohemia, never once losing his famous cool. First appearing separately in the Strand Magazine, these stories were ... |
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First published in 1922 and here presented in a fully annotated edition - the only currently available to English readers - this collection will offer the opportunity to discover a lesser-known side of this master storyteller’s ability to surprise and enthrall. A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have become part of our collective imagination, these stories - concerned with ghosts, obscure ... |
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When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective hopes to avoid a murderous crime and bring the would-be assassin to justice. But on being informed soon afterwards that one John Douglas of Birlstone Manor has been found with his head blown apart by a shotgun, he realizes that he is too late. And so begins an enthralling tale of revenge, vigilantism and secret societies, one that transports the reader from the English countryside to the violent world of the American frontier of the 1860s. The fourth and final novel in the Sherlock Holmes canon, ... |
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On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a place to live. He is introduced to a certain Mr Holmes, an eccentric, pipe-smoking gentleman who shows an interest in chemistry and is currently engaged in a test to detect human haemoglobin. What begins as a simple house-sharing enquiry soon turns into a fully fledged study in scarlet, a case of blood, murder and betrayal that will transport the reader from the streets of London to the early settlements of Salt Lake City in Utah... The book is part of the Alma Junior Classics series by Alma ... |
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За Супермакс вече нищо не е както преди... Коварният Доктор Злостник превърна най-добре сресания защитник на справедливостта в картоф. Не стига това, ами заплашва да превърне в картоф всеки, който му се противопостави. Но има нещо, което Доктор Злостник не знае, и то е, че Супермакс, макар и картоф, не е някаква си обикновена грудка. Той е Суперкартоф. Дали Супермакс ще намери начин да си върне перфектния перчем? Дали ще успее да принуди Доктор Злостник да му построи разкартофатор, за да си върне човешкия облик? Предстои да разберем в тези 56 цветни страници изпълнени с екшън и много хумор. ... |
