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Weller Shane: Great Love Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Great title poem plus Kubla Khan, Christabel, 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes. Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, The Pains of Sleep, To William Wordsworth, Youth and Age, many more. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Olian: Everyday Fashions of the Forties

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: What American men, women and children wore in the 1940s, shown in 122 fully illustrated and captioned pages selected from rare copies of Sears catalogs, reproduced in large format on high-quality glossy stock. Hundreds of detailed drawings depict hats, overcoats and shoes, suits and dresses, sportswear, undergarments, corsetry, neckties, rainwear and personal accessories. JoAnne Olian is a…

Smith Philip: Favorite Poems of Childhood

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter, Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Eugene Field's Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Emily Dickinson's I' m Nobody Who are you?, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Swing, many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type.

London Jack: Five Great Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Five stories that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story. The White Silence, In a Far Country, and An Odyssey of the North bring the harshness of the frozen North powerfully to life while The Seed of McCoy reflects London's experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. Also includes The Mexican. Publisher's Note.

O'Henry: The Gift of the Magi: and Other Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Sixteen captivating stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as «The Gift of the Magi,» «The Last Leaf,» «The Ransom of Red Chief,» «The Voice of the City,» and «The Cop and the Anthem.» Publisher's Note.

Great Ghost Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Ten classics of supernatural fiction by masters of the macabre: Bram Stoker's The Judge's House, The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James' The Rose Garden, Charles Dickens' To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt, Dickon the Devil by J. S. LeFanu, E. G. Swain's Bone to His Bone and 5 others.

Гоголь Николай Васильевич: Overcoat and Other Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: «The Nose», a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; «Old-Fashioned Farmers», a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; «The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich», one of Gogol’s most famous comic stories; and «The Overcoat», widely considered a masterpiece of form.

Jacob Broschart: Ornamental Designs from Architectural Sheet Metal: The Complete Broschart and Braun Catalog, ca: 1900

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A must for architectural historians, restoration specialists and vintage home enthusiasts: 1,095 late Victorian-era designs, superbly drawn or photographed, including egg and dart enrichments; bead, flute and ogee enrichments; drapery and drop ornaments; urns, vases and wreaths; eagles, lion heads and gargoyles; rosettes, ribbons, garlands and festoons; sunbursts, weather vanes and more.

Roessing H.: 2286 Traditional Stencil Designs

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Masterfully executed designs in reproductions of two rare catalogs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with intricate floral and foliated patterns, architectural ornaments and design elements, religious symbols and figures, animals, mosaics, landscapes, much more. Invaluable to artists and craftspeople working with textiles, wallpaper and other decorative items.

Fowlie Wallace: French Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 10 unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: Micromegas, by Voltaire; The Atheist's Mass, by Balzac; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler, by Flaubert; Spleen of Paris, by Baudelaire; Minuet, by de Maupassant; The Guest, by Camus; and more. Accurate English translations appear on facing pages.

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich: Five Great Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Incisive, masterfully written tales — set in Tsarist Russian milieux — reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes The Black Monk (1894), The House with the Mezzanine (1896), The Peasants (1897), Gooseberries (1898), and The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899).

Poe Edgar Allan: The Gold-Bug and Other Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Nine gripping tales of psychological terror and the supernatural, by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum and 4 others.

Dickens Charles: A Christmas Carol

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has become as much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths.

Whitman Walter: Selected Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass, Selections include I Hear America Singing, I Sing the Body Electric, Song of the Open Road, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and O Captain My Captain — all reprinted from an authoritative text.

Rebay Luciano: Introduction to Italian Poetry: A Dual-Language Book

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Treasury of 34 hymns, sonnets, madrigals, heroic epics (in selection) and lyrics by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, d'Annunzio and 15 others. Full Italian texts with expert literal translations on facing pages, plus biographical and critical commentary on each poet. Introduction. 21 black-and-white illustrations.

Burns Robert: Poems and Songs

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Treasury of 43 works including: «The Cotter's Saturday Night,» «To a Mountain Daisy,» «To a Mouse,» «To a Louse,» «Tam o' Shanter,» «Comin Thro' the Rye,» «I m Oe'r Young to Marry Yet,» «O, Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass,» and «O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast.» Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Extensive glossary.

Shakespeare William: Complete Sonnets

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms.

Wilson Richard Guy: The Architecture of McKim, Mead and White in Photographs, Plans and Elevations

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: First one-volume paperback edition of one of the most important documents in American architecture. Depicted are over 130 structures — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, Tiffany & Company, and the original Penn Station, among others, in New York, as well as many important landmarks in other cities. 435 photographs, over 250 line illustrations.

Spero James: Old Master Portrait Drawings

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Masterpieces of drawing from the great schools and traditions of Italy and northern Europe, spanning four centuries from Filippino Lippi, Andrea del Sarto, and Titian to Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Ingres. 47 plates.