Книги жанра Dover Publications
Название: Idylls of the King
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Tennyson interprets the Arthurian myth as an epic poem, and his tales of Camelot soar to remarkable imaginative heights to trace the birth of a king; the founding, fellowship, and decline of the Round Table; and the king's inevitable departure. Encompassing romance, heroism, duty, and conflict, Tennyson's poetry charts the rise and fall of a legendary society.
Название: Contemporary Designs for Glass Etching
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2011
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This practical guide to glass etching provides craftworkers with 63 attractive, original designs, ideal for applying to dozens of projects. Patterns ranging from nautical themes and Art Nouveau designs to florals, butterflies, and borders are accompanied by instructions for attaining perfect results.
Название: The Quest of the Historical Jesus
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2011
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Groundbreaking study that established the reputation of the famed theologian traces the search for the historical person of Jesus. Schweitzer examines works of more than 50 18th and 19th-century authors and scholars and concludes that many of the earlier historical reconstructions of Christ were largely fantasies. The criterion for all subsequent studies.
Название: The Call of the Wild
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog, who, caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Note.
Название: N: C. Wyeth Paintings
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2000
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Excellent reproductions of works originally created for magazines and literary classics as well as personal paintings, landscapes and other subjects. Includes The Wreck of the Covenant (from Kidnapped), The Fight in the Forest (The Last of the Mohicans), Still Life with Onions, House in Maine, Pyle's Barn and 19 others.
Название: 100 Best-loved Poems
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1995
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Popular, well-known poetry: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Death, be not proud, The Raven, The Road Not Taken, plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others.
Название: Doctor Faustus
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1995
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One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.
Название: English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1997
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Rich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.
Название: English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1998
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This anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, and many others. An introduction and brief biographical notes on the poets are included.
Название: The Eternal Husband
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. One of the esteemed Russian author's most powerful and accessible tales, it employs his favorite themes of mental torture and neurosis. Captivating and highly revealing, it explores love, guilt, and hatred.
Название: Five Great Short Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1991
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Incisive, masterfully written tales — set in Tsarist Russian milieux — reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes The Black Monk (1894), The House with the Mezzanine (1896), The Peasants (1897), Gooseberries (1898), and The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899).
Название: The Gold-Bug and Other Tales
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1991
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Nine gripping tales of psychological terror and the supernatural, by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum and 4 others.
Название: Great Love Poems
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
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Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets.
Название: Hadji Murad
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2009
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Hadji Murad (also known as Hadji Murat) is a novel written by Leo Tolstoy and not published until after his death in 1912. The final work of Tolstoy, Hadji Murad is about an Avar revel commander who seeks personal revenge and forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians who he had been previously fighting. Hadji Murad is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Leo Tolstoy and also for those who are discovering Leo Tolstoy works for the first time.
Название: Leaves of Grass
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2007
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The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece Song of Myself. Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.
Название: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1998
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Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human nature, morals, and society to art, politics, history, and more.
Название: The Queen of Spades
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1994
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Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus An Amateur Peasant Girl, The Shot, The Snowstorm, The Postmaster, and The Coffin-Maker — all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest poets and most influential writers.
Название: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
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Great title poem plus Kubla Khan, Christabel, 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes. Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, The Pains of Sleep, To William Wordsworth, Youth and Age, many more. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
Название: Ten Plays
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Comprehensive and competitively priced, this anthology features the Russian playwright's most popular works. Contents include 5 full-length plays — The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov — and 5 one-act comedies: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Includes hundreds of Twain's most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel, and diverse other topics, among them. He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty. Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please; and more than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
