Книги издательства Dover Publications
Название: The Importance of Being Earnest
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.
Название: Great Illustrations by N: C. Wyeth
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2013
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Newell Convers Wyeth created more than 3,000 illustrations in the course of his career. This original full-color collection focuses on his early and most popular illustrations, featuring more than 100 iconic images from The Mysterious Stranger, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rip Van Winkle, The Boy's King Arthur, and other classics.
Название: 1500 Decorative Ornaments (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2000
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Hundreds of attractive royalty-free designs from all periods and styles — from Renaissance and Baroque to Art Deco and Geometric. The virtually inexhaustible supply of dynamic, black-and-white graphic devices includes elegantly rendered miniature flowers and leaves, everyday objects, holiday and abstract motifs, classical designs, and other decorative elements.
Название: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2002
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This less-well-known tale of Tom's exploits is narrated by Huck Finn, who recounts their trip by river steamer to visit Aunt Sally in Arkansaw. When the boys encounter an acquaintance who's being pursued by a dangerous pair of thugs, Tom breaks out the mail-order detective kit he's been itching to put to use.
Название: Sense and Sensibility
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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When two sisters appear to be deserted by the young men they had intended to marry, the stage is set for a delicious comedy of manners that not only showcases Austen's perception, humor and incomparable prose, but offers a splendid glimpse of upper and middle-class English society of the early 19th century.
Название: Pere Goriot
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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A kind-hearted and idealistic youth enters the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s, where his education in the realities and costs of city life begin among the residents of a shabby but respectable boardinghouse. Acclaimed by Leslie Stephen as «the modern King Lear,» it offers a timeless view of the tragedies behind the prosaic details of everyday life.
Название: The Necklace and Other Short Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include «Ball of Fat,» regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, «The Necklace,» «A Piece of String,» «Mme. Tellier's Establishment,» «Mademoiselle Fifi,» «Miss Harriet,» «A Way to Wealth,» «My Uncle Jules» and «The Horla.»
Название: Five Comic One-Act Plays
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama, including The Anniversary, a frenetic, behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on in a bank; An Unwilling Martyr, a humorous recital of an overburdened man's chores and obligations; as well as The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal.
Название: Uncle Vanya
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1998
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This structurally and psychologically compact drama takes place on an estate in 19th-century Russia, exploring the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and the daughter and brother-in-law from his first marriage. Interwoven themes of weakness, delusion, and despair are balanced by an underlying message of courage and hope.
Название: Crime and Punishment
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering.
Название: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2010
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This splendid collection of mysteries carries readers back to a gas-lit era, when literature's greatest detective team lived on Baker Street. A dozen of Holmes and Watson's best-known cases include «The Speckled Band», «The Red-Headed League», The Five Orange Pips», «The Copper Beeches», and «A Scandal in Bohemia».
Название: Sister Carrie
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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A teenage girl without money or connections leaves her small town in search of a better life in Dreiser's revolutionary first novel. The chronicle of Carrie Meeber's rise from obscurity to fame — and the effects of her progress on the men who use her and are used in turn — aroused much controversy upon its debut in 1900.
Название: The Beautiful and Damned
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Transparently based on the lives of Fitzgerald and his beautiful wife, Zelda, this novel traces the meteoric rise and fall of glittering young socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch. Building their marriage on the shaky foundation of an expected inheritance, they devote their youth and happiness on hedonistic pursuits that plunge them into moral and financial bankruptcy.
Название: Treasury of Japanese Designs and Motifs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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360 traditional Japanese designs and motifs redrawn in clean, crisp black-and-white, royalty-free illustrations.
Название: Dubliners
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Declared by their author to be a chapter in the moral history of Ireland, this collection of 15 tales offers vivid, tightly focused observations of the lives of Dublin's poorer classes. A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential writers, it includes a masterpiece of the short-story genre, «The Dead.»
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
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Sixteen captivating stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as «The Gift of the Magi,» «The Last Leaf,» «The Ransom of Red Chief,» «The Voice of the City,» and «The Cop and the Anthem.» Publisher's Note.
Название: Russian Cookbook
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Easy-to-follow instructions, adapted for modern American cooking, for over 200 mouthwatering traditional dishes: borsch, shashlik of salmon, Russian squab in sour cream, potato kotlety, pirozhki and pirogi, blini, paskha and many more. Also origins of Russian foods, helpful hints on buying and preparing foods, much else. Definition of terms.
Название: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Among the most popular of all Shakespeare's comedies, this play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. With its several pairs of lovers, on-again, off-again romances, magic spells, fairies, and a bumbling troupe of would-be actors, the play continues to enchant audiences. Unabridged reprint of an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Название: King Lear
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, it explores themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, wretchedness and the meaninglessness of life with unsurpassed power and depth. Reprinted here from an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Название: Best Works of Mark Twain
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1998
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In addition to the classic novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this set includes Humorous Stories and Sketches (featuring «Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses,» «The Stolen White Elephant,» and 5 other items) plus «The Mysterious Stranger» and Other Stories («The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County» and 3 others).
