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Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: «Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice. Hardy's indictment of society's double…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a success de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here 'Pandora', 'The Patagonia', and 'Four Meetings' it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 202 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 433) Аннотация: In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however,…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For this edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Usually classified as a «problem comedy», All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and offers a fully reconsidered, annotated text for both readers and actors.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first full stage history and analysis of the original production of Coriolanus at the Blackfriars theater, and also examines…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Wide-ranging and authoritative, this sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it contains over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it provides widespread coverage of all aspects of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: Developed using evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, this fully revised text offers more up-to-date and complete coverage of synonyms and antonyms than any other A-Z thesaurus. Increased coverage now includes hundreds of new phrases and idioms, and newly selected examples of real English showing how words are used, and helping to guide you to the right meaning. New features include the Word…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Mental Maths contains mental maths activities for your child to do at home — along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The activities consolidate mental maths at Key Stage 2, covering time, fractions, measurement, pictorial and verbal problems. They are an easy way to…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Reasoning Skills — Non-Verbal contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their non-verbal reasoning skills at home along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The questions are diagrammatic or pictorial and involve simple sequencing or odd-one-out type…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Spanish contains progressive activities for your child to do at home to practise their Spanish words and sentences. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old learning and practising Spanish, the pages are clear, in two colour to make each language stand out clearly, and fun. It is an easy way to boost confidence learning a language — children can work their own way…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Old Testament reveals the lives of many families across the generations and tells the stories of many unforgettable men and women. Their lives are played out in turbulent times against the drama of great floods, plagues, journeys, and battles. From this epic sweep, Berlie Doherty has chosen more than forty stories. Her narrative draws out the emotions of real people: their hopes and fears,…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Winnie's sisters have given her a flying carpet but Winnie is struggling to find something nice to say about it in her thank-you letter as the carpet has been more than a little wayward. Winnie decides to give the carpet one last chance but then disaster strikes. The carpet swoops off with poor Wilbur as its unwilling passenger. Winnie tries to catch it but the carpet is too fast for her and it…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and…