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Russia has 14 cities that are home to a million or more people. This fact alone is testimony to the extent to which Russia is both a major player in the world's economy and little understood. In just a few years, Russia has gone from being a world power in the making, to an undisputed key player on the global scene.
| Жанр | Иностранные языки |
| Год | 2012 |
Russia has 14 cities that are home to a million or more people. This fact alone is testimony to the extent to which Russia is both a major player in the world's economy and little understood. In just a few years, Russia has gone from being a world power in the making, to an undisputed key player on the global scene.
| Жанр | Прикладная и научно популярная литература |
| Год | 2012 |
Dating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the classic story of a knight on a green steed challenging Sir Gawain to a monumental wager, it is a strange tale full of decapitations, seduction and magic.Soon to be brought to the big screen, Sir Gawain is one of the earliest great stories of English literature.
| Автор | Уэстон Джесси |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2021 |
Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner shoots the bird, arousing the wrath of spirits who pursue the ship. Haunted by Death, the crew begin to perish one by one, until only the cursed mariner remains to confront his guilt. As penance for his actions he is condemned to wander the earth, telling his tale to those he meets as a warning.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's...
| Автор | Coleridge Samuel |
| Жанр | Прочие издания |
| Год | 2016 |
London society is full of women of the very* highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the writer s works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of...
| Автор | Оскар Уайльд |
| Жанр | Прочие издания |
| Год | 2011 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.'One of Shakespeare's most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a play that explores courtship, romance and marriage through a number of relationships. Most famously, that of the irrepressible Beatrice and Benedick as they trade their wits against one another, criticising the notion of marriage, yet slowly falling in love with one another as they do so.
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2021 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'Let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.'A prophet waits to board a ship after 12 years away from his homeland. His journey is interrupted by a group of people who ask him to impart his wisdom before he leaves forever. What follows are 26 short chapters on everything from love, marriage and children, to freedom, reason, talking, time and death.A guide to...
| Автор | Gibran Kahlil |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2021 |
After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word 'rache' - German for revenge - written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face, and the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle.
| Автор | Doyle Arthur Conan |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2014 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear.” Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island where he meets the mysterious Doctor Moreau. Horrified by the discovery that Moreau is performing vivisection...
| Автор | H. Wells |
| Жанр | Мистика Фантастика Фэнтези |
| Год | 2021 |
Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty in the torrent of Reichenbach Falls, Holmes makes a disguised reappearance to Baker Street and his good friend Dr Watson.Featuring one of Holmes' greatest adversaries, Charles Augustus Milverton, as well as trademark astute logic, forensic science, murder,...
| Автор | Doyle Arthur Conan |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2013 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.
| Автор | Shaw George |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2021 |
The story of Pinocchio has remained one of the best-loved children's tales for over a century. However, the original 1883 novel about the adventures of the mischievous marionette on his quest to become a real boy began as a sophisticated story for both adults and children, and includes political satire, slapstick humour and questions about the role of tradition and society. From the moment Geppetto decides to carve himself a son from a magical piece of wood, the tale lurches from one fantastical...
| Автор | Carlo Collodi |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2012 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.'Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his...
| Автор | George Eliot |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2012 |
Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died - a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who?Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was...
| Автор | Sparks Nicholas |
| Жанр | Романтика |
| Год | 2019 |
Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells ....
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.'Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must...
| Автор | Данте Алигьери |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2021 |
Книга для чтения на английском языке.
| Автор | Дойль Артур-Конан |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2010 |