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Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry, the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness — the paradoxes deep in…
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: The meanings of «up» are conveyed with merry verse and illustrations in a happy book that celebrates the joy of life.
Скачать книгу (размер 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 98) Аннотация: First published in 1986 and just as fresh and relevant today, this widely acclaimed, child-friendly poetry anthology is now being reissued with a striking new jacket. In his introduction to this book Jim Trelease, bestselling author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, writes, No one better recognizes the essence of the child-poetry connection than poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky... Here are more than…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Harry Hopeman lebt als Diamantenhändler und Gelehrter in New York. Als ihm das Angebot gemacht wird, sich einen verschollen geglaubten Diamanten anzusehen, fährt er nach Jerusalem. Auf seiner Reise wird er mit der aufregenden Geschichte seiner Familie konfrontiert. So wird die Suche nach dem Diamanten auch zur Suche nach sich selbst.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This anthology brings together hundreds of haiku by the Japanese masters — Basho, Issa, Buson, Shiki — with superb examples from nineteenth — and twentieth-century writers. The pioneering translator R. H. Blyth believed that the spirit of haiku is present in all great poetry; inspired by him, the editor of this volume has included lines from such poets as Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Thoreau, and…
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