Книги издательства Dover Publications
Название: Pen and Ink Drawing
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2005
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An inspiring sourcebook for all skill levels, this guide helps artists discover a wide variety of subjects and ideas for their next sketch. More than 140 of the author's own drawings include partially finished details that illustrate how to achieve the desired visual effects. Stimulating topics include nostalgic scenes, old engravings, atmospheric effects, photographs, landscapes, and life itself.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2004
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Choice collection of nine classic tales — gathered by British author on his journeys to Russia in the early twentieth century — tells of magical beasts, daring young men, frightful giants, wicked witches, and beguiling creatures of the sea. A delight for fairy tale fans of all ages.
Название: Five Great English Romantic Poets: Poems by Byron, Coleridge, Shelly, Wordsworth and Keats
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Charming set of English poetry from the Romantic period includes: Byron's Selected Poems, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems by Shelley, Wordsworth's Favorite Poems, and Lyric Poems by Keats.
Название: 1920s Fashions from B: Altman and Co
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Over 700 black-and-white illustrations, detailed descriptions, and prices for a vast array of upscale women's clothing and accessories appear among these highlights from rare 1920s B. Altman & Company catalogs. Stylized drawings of flappers depict sophisticated dresses, bathing suits, cloche hats, shoes, and more. A selection of attire for men and children is included.
Название: Pride and prejudice
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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In one of the most universally loved and admired English novels, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. Jane Austen's art transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2013
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Eleven stories include F. Scott Fitzgerald's «Bernice Bobs Her Hair,» Guy de Maupassant's «The Necklace,» Edgar Allan Poe's «The Black Cat,» Chekhov's «The Lady with the Toy Dog,» and O. Henry's «The Furnished Room,» in addition to works by Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather.
Название: Eight Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2013
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These richly atmospheric tales from Victorian London trace the continuing adventures of an ever-popular sleuth: «A Scandal in Bohemia,» «The Red-headed League,» «The Adventure of the Speckled Band,» «The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb,» «The Final Problem,» «The Adventure of the Empty House,» «The Musgrave Ritual,» more. Large print edition.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Selection of beautiful Art Nouveau designs from the Dekorative Vorbilder, an extremely rare early 20th-century stylebook. 44 full-page, full-color plates display the sensual lines and muted colors typical of Art Nouveau in a variety of ways — in frames, borders, panels, cartouches, head-and tailpieces and dingbats. All permission-free. On coated stock.
Название: Treasury of Art Nouveau
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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577 authentic Art Nouveau designs specially selected for artists and designers. Ranging in size from full-page illustrations to borders, headpieces, tailpieces, and initials; all clearly reproduced in black-and-white line. Designs include: florals, landscapes, figures, etc. from artists such as Klimt, Bradley, Auriol, Larcombe, and many more.
Название: Men’s Fashion Illustration
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Over 100 full-page, royalty-free illustrations document what well-dressed American men wore in early 1900s: checked and striped business suits, sporty knickers and jackets, elegant formal wear, long fur-trimmed coats, more. Includes variety of accessories: canes, gloves, spats.
Название: Great English Short stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2005
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Saki's «Tobermory» tells the tale of a talking cat who's conversation turns toward the scandalous remarks he's overheard. Additional selections include Hardy's «The Fiddler of the Reels,» Dickens' «The Haunted Hotel,» Trollope, «The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne,» Lawrence, «The Prussian Officer,» Kipling, «The Phantom Rickshaw,» Wells, «Under the Knife,» and others.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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One hundred twenty pages of illustrations, accompanied by descriptive captions, depict one-piece strapless bathing suits and dresses with plunging necklines for women; business suits with wide lapels for men; bluejeans, plaid shirts, and full, knee-length swing skirts for girls; fringed cowboy suits for youngsters of both genders; more. Over 300 black-and-white illustrations.
Название: Celtic Designs: Ready to use
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Treasury of immediately usable motifs featuring the sinuous interlacements, stylized mythical creatures, abstracts, geometrics, and other elements that give Celtic art its characteristic distinctive look. Ideal for a host of art and craft projects.
Название: Romeo and Juliet
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families, and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. This inexpensive edition includes the complete, unabridged text with explanatory footnotes. Ideal for classroom use, it is a wonderful addition to the home library of anyone wanting to savor one of literature's most sublime paeans to young love.
Название: Twelve Plays by Shakespeare
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Convenient and inexpensive, this box set features a dozen of the Bard's most popular dramas. Unabridged texts of Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado About Nothing.
Название: Viking Designs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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This compilation features more than 175 dynamic, royalty-free motifs in a wide range of styles. Derived from the metalwork, woodwork, textiles, carvings, and ceramics of the Viking homelands of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, they include sinuously intertwined patterns, mythological animals, dragon-slaying heroes on horseback, and many other striking images.
Название: Baroque Ornament and Designs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in design, Baroque art and architecture flourished in 17th-century Europe. These engravings by a noted French artist perfectly embody the Baroque sensibility through architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, lush florals and foliates, borders, and other striking design elements. 46 illustrations.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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This intriguing combination of fantasy thriller and moral allegory depicts the gripping struggle of two opposing personalities — one essentially good, the other evil — for the soul of one man. Its tingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature reveal Stevenson as a novelist of great skill and originality.
Название: An Ideal Husband
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Wilde's scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2013
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Ranging from fairy tales to detective yarns, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and stylistic versatility. Contents include the complete texts of «The Happy Prince and Other Tales,» «A House of Pomegranates,» «Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories,» «Poems in Prose,» and «The Portrait of Mr. W. H.»
