Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: The Oresteian trilogy (`Agamemnon`, `Libation Bearers`, `Eumenides`) established the themes of Greek tragedy — the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. The plays dramatize the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, the revenge of her son Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athens.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have come out of America.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian? Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. In their letters home they report on visits to the theatre and scientific societies, and observe the manners and flirtations of polite society, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid — the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic, humorous, alarming, but always thought-provoking. This collection…
Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: What does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes an unbridgeable chasm.…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Deception is usually frowned on as morally unacceptable, but is it always wrong? Can hiding or distorting the truth sometimes have good effects, adding to the sum of human happiness? These ten stories are full of secrets and lies, from a light-hearted bit of fun to dark and desperate deceit; but whether harmless or evil, deception can sometimes lead to quite unexpected complications.
Скачать книгу (размер 718 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 142) Аннотация: What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name of love and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love won and love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in despair. It might be love between men and women, children and parents, even humans and cats; but whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with. This collection contains stories by…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches — or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day. You can have an English afternoon tea, walk on long…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers — this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes — this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared.…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In English-speaking countries around the world people celebrate Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and other special days. Some celebrations are new, like Remembrance Day and Mother's Day; others, like the summer solstice, go back thousands of years. What happens on these special days? What do people eat, where do they go, what do they do? Why is there a special day for eating pancakes? Who is…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: There are many different Irelands. There is the Ireland of peaceful rivers, green fields, and beautiful islands. There is the Ireland of song and dance, pubs and theatres — the country of James Joyce, Bob Geldof, and Riverdance. And there is the Ireland of guns, fighting, death, and the hope of peace. Come with us and visit all of these Irelands — and many more...
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: What will we do when there is nowhere to put our rubbish? Every day, all over the world, people drop cans, boxes, paper, and bottles into bins and never think about them again. And the rubbish mountains get bigger and bigger. But there is another way — a way that makes old paper into houses, broken bottles into jewellery, and old cans into bridges. Anyone can recycle — it's easy, it saves money,…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live — and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person. One country has the biggest rock in all the world, and a town where everybody lives under the ground; the other has a beach where you can sit beside the sea in a pool of hot water, and lakes…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: It is hard to imagine the modern world without information technology. At home, at work, and at play, mobile phones, e-mails and computers have become part of daily life. The story of information technology is a story of machines — from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. Meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Everybody knows about the United States of America. You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere in the world. Cowboys, jazz, hamburgers, the Stars and Stripes — that's the United States. But it's a country with many stories to tell. Stories of busy cities, and quiet, beautiful forests and parks. Stories of a country that fought against Britain, and then against…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man — a man of peace. I have a dream, said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites living together in peace…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The doctor took great care of his patients. Everybody agreed about that. And a lot of his women patients were old and ill, so it was only natural that a lot of them would die. Everyone agreed about that too. Until some of the women who died were not very old, or very ill — and someone began to ask questions about Dr Harold Shipman... Many great crimes end in a question. Not all the answers are…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In 1918 in the peaceful province of Transkei, South Africa, the Mandela family gave their new baby son the name Rolihlahla — troublemaker. But the young boy's early years were happy ones, and he grew up to be a good student and an enthusiastic sportsman. Who could imagine then what was waiting for Nelson Mandela — the tireless struggle for human rights, the long years in prison, the happiness and…