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Crawford Tom: The Story of King Arthur

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Stirring tales of King Arthur's boyhood, his sword Excalibur, the round table, adventures of Sir Launcelot, other daring deeds.

Amy L. Lusebrink: 159 Celtic Designs

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Over 150 motifs reflecting the eye-catching intricacies of Celtic design, ideal for use in graphics layouts, needlework designs and other art and craft projects. Often incorporating sinuous interlacements of animal, floral and abstract motifs, the designs have been clearly and boldly drawn to provide the clearest possible image for reproduction.

L.N. Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The Kreutzer Sonata portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. How Much Land Does a Man Need? Is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of The Death of Ivan Ilych, after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death. Explanatory footnotes.

Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson: Mexican Indian Folk Designs

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Incorporating abstract and geometric forms as well as highly stylized images of flowers, plants, animals, birds, and humans, these exacting illustrations represent more than 20 major Mexican Indian cultures, among them the Huichol, Otomi, Tepehua, Huasteco, Nahuatl, Mazatec, Tarahumara, Tepecano, Mestizo, Zapotec, Mixteco, Mazatec and Cuicatec.

Donne John: Selected Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Rich selection of 73 works by the English metaphysical poet. Included are The Good Morrow, The Canonization, The Relic, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, To His Mistress Going to Bed, Death Be Not Proud, Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich: The Three Sisters

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This landmark probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.

Kemple Brian: Essential Russian Grammar

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of Russian grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday Russian, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.

Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Classic adventure story of a perilous sea journey, a mutiny led by the infamous Long John Silver, and a lethal scramble for buried treasure — seen through the eyes of cabin boy Jim Hawkins.

Potter Beatrix: Peter Rabbit and Eleven Other Favorite Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 463 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 92) Аннотация: In addition to the title story, this treasury includes The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Ginger & Pickles, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Tale of Tom Kitten, and 4 more. Newly reset in large type with 59 new illustrations.

Carroll Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Скачать книгу (размер 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 86) Аннотация: Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle and the dreadful Queen of Hearts. Includes all 42 of Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations.

Dostoevsky Fyodor: Notes from the Underground

Скачать книгу (размер 458 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 91) Аннотация: Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19'th and 20'th century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate,…

Stevens Mark A.: Classic Flower Prints: A Portfolio of 6 Self-Matted Full-Colour Prints

Скачать книгу (размер 24 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 6) Аннотация: Lovely prints, meticulously reproduced from rare 18th- and 19th-century botanical classics: the Waratah Camellia by Samuel Curtis, Mary Lawrance's Austrian Copper Brier Rose, Anemones and other flowers by Jean-Louis Prevost, Walter Hood Fitch's Lily, G. D. Ehret's magnificent multi-blossomed Turk's-cap Lily, and the Iris xiphioides by Pierre-Joseph Redoute.

Grafton Carol Belanger: Treasury of Ironwork Designs: 400 Examples from Historical Sources

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.

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.