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Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: Now recognized as one of the great photographers of the 19th century, British army officer Linnaeus Tripe (1822–1902) captured superb images of antiquities, temples, palaces, and landscapes in India and Burma in the 1850s. These notecards are decorated with his richly toned images of pillars and the Great Pagoda in Madura, the Great Pagoda in Tanjore, and the Maha-too-lo-Bounghian-Kyoung palace…

Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: Inspired by the poem «The Hound of Heaven» by Francis Thompson, as well as by Carl Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious, classically trained artist R.H. Ives Gammell created a series of paintings he called The Hound of Heaven, full of symbolism and powerful imagery. Four panels from the series illuminate this assortment. The full-sized notecards are presented in a keepsake box with envelopes.

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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Whether you need a refresher or a crash course, the author of Science Without the Boring Bits and The Kings and Queens of England serves up these 200 key concepts of science, philosophy, and history. Along with 100 black and white illustrations, this chunky little text will fill you in on the terminology needed to discuss the basic concerns of life-love, art, liberty, morality-while also delving…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Informal, candid, and decidedly modern, «street photography» has often been associated with Paris and New York City, but Moscow has a long tradition of it as well. With 34 black and white photographs by such photographers as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Vladimir Kupriyanov, and Anatolii Boldin, these images span the 20th century. The photos depict a diverse nation that has always been nonconformist at…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The author of such novels as The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove, Henry James was also a devotee of the novella, and in this omnibus literary critic Philip Rahv has collected ten of James's most important short novels. Accompanied by Rahv's commentary, this collection contains Madame de Mauves, Daisy Miller, An International Episode, The Siege of London, Lady Barberina, The Author of…

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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Why would you want to read An annoying ABC? Because after Adelaide annoyed Bailey, and Bailey blamed Clyde, and Clyde cried, and Dexter drooled on Eloise, and Eloise elbowed Flora ... well, something remarkable happened to everyone in Miss Mabel's alphabetically initialed class. Adelaide apologized. Michael Emberley's colorful sketches are full of action and expression, in this book for readers…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: He considered himself «in the very first row of the second-raters, « yet Somerset Maugham was one of the most successful and influential writers of the 20th century, praised by authors like Anthony Burgess, Ian Fleming, and George Orwell, who called Maugham «the modern writer who has influenced me the most ... for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.» This omnibus…

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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's Vitoria campaign with grim expectancy in this 17th book of his chronicles, from 1985. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain-an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. But Sharpe's enemy Pierre Ducos seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take a personal revenge on Sharpe. And when…

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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: (Part of the original Foundation Trilogy, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series) This is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga, originally a three-part masterwork-for which a special Hugo Award was created, Best All-Time Novel Series, recognizing its status as a central work of science fiction-that was later expanded to a seven-part series. Foundation describes a far…

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Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: In this enthralling scrapbook that William Shakespeare compiled for his daughter, he looks back on his life as he retires from the theatre. Discover late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth centurystories of love, war, kings and queens, fellow playwrights and actors, explorers and life in London.

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Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: The eponymous princesses are both spinsters, but there any similarity ends. Zizi, thwarted in love, takes her lot meekly until she comes face to face with her erstwhile lover’s perfidy, and her sense of justice and familial devotion rise to claim a bittersweet revenge. Mimi meanwhile, whose own romantic failures have left her bitter and resentful, takes her revenge groundlessly, leading all…