"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." ... "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series promoted a second set of stories, "The Memoirs". In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for ... |
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This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their "trick endings" or "twists in the tail": repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso&# ... |
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Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their "Bummel" ("roaming or wandering& ... |
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Правете интересни, изумителни, славни, фантастични грешки. Нарушавайте правилата. Оставете света след себе си по-интересен заради вашето присъствие в него. Правете добро изкуство. Илюстрирани неподражаемо от Крис Ридъл и изписани на ръка от Дамян Дамянов , тези текстове са вдъхновяващ призив за свобода на идеите, за нуждата от изкуството и за дързостта да преследваш мечтите си. ... |
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По романа на Джек Лондон , преразказан от Силвана Сарди. ... The story follows the adventure of Buck, a dog stolen from his home in California and sold as a sled dog. As Buck's life changes from a much-loved pet to a working in often very hard conditions, Buck is forced to learn to survive. As the story progresses, Buck becomes more attracted to the Call of the Wild. Read about his adventures and the many problems he has to face in this new cruel world. Main themes include survival, returning to nature and loyalty built on trust. Книгата е част от поредицата Teen Readers на издателство Клет България . ... |
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A very special anthology that's a must for all fans of the Shadowhunter novels! ... Featuring characters from "The Mortal Instruments", "The Infernal Devices" and "The Dark Artifices" among others, this very special illustrated collection showcases beautiful portraits alongside never-before-known details about all your favourite characters from Cassandra Clare 's Shadowhunters' world. ... |
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"The New York Times" Bestseller. ... Before... Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge ... |
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Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels, of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief. ... |
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London ... |
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Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: "Of all my books I like this the best". Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family. Few readers, arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will ... |
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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the "decivilisation" of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast, ... |
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Всеки българин би произнесъл съкращението РБ (Република България) като РъБъ. В стремежа си да наричам нещата с истинските им имена, реших да запазя естетиката на фонетиката. "Президент на РъБъ" е опит за запознанство с истината от "най-висша инстанция". И е монолог за несъстоялия се разговор в българските медии. Инстанцията е толкова висша, че се е превърнала в "свещена крава" начело на стадото. Имаш крава, пиеш мляко. Ако нямаш, пиеш една студена вода. Пих една и ми подейства лековито. Препоръчвам я. Избистря паметта. Камък може да ви падне от сърцето. Разширява зениците, кръгозора и свития ... |
