Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes «Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman», «Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp», «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves», «The Fisherman and the Jinni», «Judar and His Brethren», and «Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad».
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: This volume provides a fascinating sample of Erte's very best graphic work, offering every plate from his most popular collections: «The Alphabet» (1977); «The Numerals» (1968); «The Aces» (1974); «The Precious Stones» (1969); and «The Seasons» (1970). Each plate has been painstakingly reproduced from the autographed, limited-edition lithographs.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: To the general public, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is perhaps best known for his poster of Sarah Bernhardt and magnificent decorated plans such as The Seasons — work that continues to grow in popularity and value as the resurgence of interest in Art Nouveau increases. Among graphic artists and commercial designers, Mucha is praised for the innovative style books that pioneered the use of Art…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: James Gibbs remains one of England's most influential and respected architects. His legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martins-in-the-Fields — the standard for many churches that followed — the Senate House of the University of Cambridge plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The most definitive collection available, this sumptuous gallery gathers breathtaking artwork from rare, early editions of such popular tales as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and The Snow Queen. There are 180 elegant images that capture the genius of Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Warwick Goble, Charles Folkard, Willy Pogany, and others.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Known as 'the master of the fantastic', the great French artist Dore (1832-1883) produced some of the wildest, most evocative, and memorable illustrations of the past 150 years.This new original collection draws together for the first time Dore's best work on the theme of knights and their adventures — battles, damsels, dragons, fantastic landscapes, and more.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Readers of all ages will cherish this unique book and its splendid combination of art and literature. Eighty-five stunning images by a master of watercolor techniques depict scenes from Japanese, Bengali, and Italian folklore. Other subjects include the works of Shakespeare and Tennyson, plus familiar characters such as Cinderella and Puss in Boots.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — includes such popular tales as Kafka's A Country Doctor, Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings, plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Renaissance can be found in the elaborate ceiling paintings and designs that graced palaces and churches throughout Europe. This unique treasury reproduces in full colour some of the finest examples of such art from two rare 19th century French and German portfolios. Whether used in their entirety or for individual motifs and ornaments, these wonderful designs will add beauty and sophistication…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In this amazing cache of designs, arresting displays of geometrics explode into thousands of fascinating variations. Each of 41 original black-and-white motifs is spun into three pages of adaptations, offering strikingly different variations on the original theme. More than 4,200 images form kaleidoscopic designs, optical illusions, and hypnotic abstracts.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Finely rendered line drawings, based on photographs of authentic Victorian and Edwardian era designs, depict lovely floral and foliate motifs, a remarkable array of geometrics, transitional designs showing Art Nouveau influence, and much more — all in a wide range of sizes and shapes.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The idealistic son of a corrupt merchant exposes his father's duplicity, but in the process destroys the very people he wishes to save. Gregers Werle forces his friends, the Ekdals, to confront the truth about their lives — but the truth only serves to wound them further.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: One of the greatest classics of modern theater — the fateful drama of a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Inspired by the new ideas of naturalism and psychology that swept Europe in the late 19th century, the play is reprinted here complete with Strindberg's critical preface.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: From one of England's greatest playwrights, a remarkably inventive and poetically expressive work that set the form for later Elizabethan dramas. The 2-part romantic tragedy focuses on Tamburlaine — a Mongol warrior whose relentless rise to greatness and power, together with his enormous greed and vanity, culminates in his eventual downfall.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: One of Cather's earliest novels — written in 1918 — is the story of Antonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. In quiet, probing depth, the story commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers whose persistence and strength helped build America.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Rich, varied collection of 14 extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories, many never before published in book form: Kipling's «The Return of Imray»; «The Tragedy of the Life Raft» by Jacques Futrelle; «The Copper Beeches» by Arthur Conan Doyle; plus hard-to-find tales by G. K. Chesterton, Catherine L. Pirkis, Silas K. Hocking, others.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Selected from the works of American, British, and French writers, 21 rare and seldom-anthologized stories include «A Bottomless Grave» by Ambrose Bierce, «The Ship that Saw a Ghost» by Frank Norris, Guy de Maupassant's «The Tomb» Richard Marsh's, «Haunted Chair», and other hard-to-find gems of the genre.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner. John Webster's great Jacobean drama detailing the fiendish schemes of two brothers who desire their wealthy sister's title and estates ends with a bloody and horrifying climax.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: The first of Zane Grey's many bestsellers, this stirring tale of adventure and romance established the prototype for western novels. A proud young heroine stands alone against the villains who rustle and stampede her cattle — until a stranger rides into the territory. Classic of American frontier fiction, teeming with color, authenticity, thrills.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A landmark of 20th-century American literature: a series of over 200 compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. Reprinted from the authoritative 1915 edition.