Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In this sixth volume of «The History of Middle-Earth», Bilbos magic ring becomes evolved into the dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord and a Black Rider first rides into the Shire. The book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps and facsimile pages from the earliest manuscripts.
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Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. This bestselling modern classic, reissued with a beautiful new cover design, is a story for people who want to follow their dreams and make their own rules and has inspired people for decades. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Film tie-in edition of the best-selling classic work of fantasy of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth, featuring the complete story told in both films, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The electrifying sequel to Caves of Steel in which Elijah Baley is once more teemed up with R. Daneel. The two must travel to Solaria, where no human has gone in over a thousand years! Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: To celebrate Little Bear's thirty-fifth anniversary, three paperback editions in the series — Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, and Little Bear's Visit — have been slipcased in a boxed gift set for a whole new generation of children.
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: This book looks at a range of issues relating to the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions. It focuses on who the invaders actually were and the results of these people living and settling together, in terms of language, towns and Christianity. This book provides a variety of activities in each chapter which link to the statements of attainment. It is in full colour, with source material.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The forerunner to «The Lord of the Rings», «The Silmarillion» fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. «The Silmarillion» is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkiens World. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in «The Lord of the Rings» look back, and in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 385) Аннотация: The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, «The Silmarillion». This second part of «The Book of Lost Tales» includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin, itself the finest and most exciting depiction of a battle…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: In a companion volume to Nightmares, poet and artist again collaborate to elicit feelings of exquisite terror. Horn Book. Prelutsky's rhymes are as lethal, lithe, and literate as ever, and Lobel wrings every atmospheric ounce out of them. School Library Journal.
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Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Pierre's 'I don't care!' intrigues a hungry lion. 'A story with a moral air about Pierre, who learned to care.'
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom. Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, «The Silmarillion». «The Book of Lost Tales» stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called «The Silmarillion». Embedded in English legend and English…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From his Books of Blood to The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, and The Great and Secret Show, to scores of short stories, bestselling novels, and now major motion pictures, no one comes close to the vivid imagination and unique terrors provided by Clive Barker. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, a nerve-shattering novella about the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within its…
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