Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Peter Pan is a fantasy of extraordinary imagination, and a national treasure. It has everything — airborne children, mocking mermaids, bloodthirsty pirates, and a homicidal crocodile with a nasty tick. In this novelization of the original play, J.M. Barrie brings the cast and the action of the drama brilliantly to life on the page. We travel to the surreal world of Neverland, and meet the true…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Collector's Colour Library takes the favourite illustrated titles of The Collector's Library and presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced, and where illustrations and decorations were originally black-and-white they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. One of the most celebrated works of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 492 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 686) Аннотация: The Three Musketeers follows the career of an impoverished young gentleman, D'Artagnan, who sets off to Paris to seek fortune as a member of the King's guard. Once there, he meets Porthos, Athos and Aramis, the musketeers of the book's title, and embarks on a daring and exciting series of adventures. France is under threat, and the friends must use all their guile and ingenuity to outwit the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Tom has to spend the summer at his aunt's, and it seems as if nothing good will ever happen again. Then he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen — and everything changes. Outside the door is a garden — a garden that shouldn't exist. Are the children there ghosts, or is it Tom who is the ghost? This Carnegie-Medal-winning modern classic is magically timeless, and has never been out of print.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This phantasmagoric study in terror is set in Second World War London. Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt — a Graham Greene speciality — and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. From that moment he is the quarry of malign and shadowy forces from which he tries to escape with a mind that is out of focus. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her Bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Lady Audley's Secret is, perhaps, the most famous of the Victorian 'sensation' novels. When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael's nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 584) Аннотация: David Stuart Davies has edited four other immensely popular anthologies for the Collector's Library. This volume includes some of the greatest classic crime short stories ever written. It contains locked rooms, barely decipherable codes, and straightforward murders written by masters of the genre: Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, John Dickson Carr, Sheridan…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: To celebrate the first ten successful years of The Collector's Library, this everlasting literary diary has been specially commissioned from Rosemary Gray. It contains apposite quotes for each day from books in the series, and throughout contains illustrations taken from the best-loved titles. Because each day is dated, but not named, it is suitable for use in any calendar year — or perhaps as a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This everlasting literary diary has been specially commissioned from Rosemary Gray. It has one page per day, and each contains apposite quotes taken from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass and one of Sir John Tenniel's superb illustrations. Because each day is dated, but not named, it is suitable for use in any calendar year — or perhaps as a birthday and anniversary…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: This is a new translation of The Art of War for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. This edition also contains a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop fables in a collection that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites — the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and steady tortoise — just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience. While their lifespan over several…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless country doctor. She tries to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she always dreamed about. Flaubert's daring description of adultery and sinfulness caused a national scandal when it was first published, and this masterpiece of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 151 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 423) Аннотация: Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, «Tender is the Night» is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. In «Tender is the Night», Fitzgerald…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 652) Аннотация: The 'north and south' of the title are the Satanic mills of the industrial north and the leisured life of London society and rural Hampshire. When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to destroy him is hatched by those determined to preserve the threatened Republic. But the different motives of the conspirators soon become apparent when high…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. This edition, beautifully illustrated with contemporary portraits and modern artwork by the illustrator Ian Penney, contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy, and are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we…
Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, and feminists have been divided in their responses. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously 'tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war…