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Hadji Murad
Автор: Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2009 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112011-05-06
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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.
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Leaves of Grass
Автор: Whitman Walt Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2007 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20122009-07-21
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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.
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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom
Автор: Wilde Oscar Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1998 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092000-10-27
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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.
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The Queen of Spades
Автор: Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeevich Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091995-12-20
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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.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Автор: Coleridge Samuel Taylor Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1992 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20091993-12-16
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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.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
Автор: Twain Mark Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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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.
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The Dore Bible Illustrations
Автор: Dore Gustave Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 241 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20112013-08-21
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Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the appropriate verses from the King James version of the Bible.
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100 Turn-of-the-century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091995-12-20
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Reprint of fascinating 1912 publication features all the winning entries from a major nationwide competition for bungalow designs — from a tile-roofed hacienda to an elaborate thatch-roofed English cottage. 100 superbly rendered plates show houses in perspective, with floor plans, itemized construction costs, and some landscape planning.
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Chinese Vector Designs (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Weller Alan Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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This superb treasury of stylized Chinese motifs will spark the imaginations of graphic designers. Fierce dragons and lions abound, plus elegant cranes and peacocks, cherry blossoms, flower-bearing maidens, and other exotic designs. Includes a gallery of project ideas, tutorials, and 200 Vector-based images that stay crystal clear even when enlarged.
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Following the Equator
Автор: Twain Mark Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092011-04-25
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Great writer's 1897 account of circumnavigating the globe by steamship. Brimming with ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor, the book describes shark fishing in Australia, riding the rails in India, tiger hunting, diamond mining in South Africa, much more; also peoples, climate, flora and fauna, customs, religion, politics, food, etc. 197 illustrations.
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The Essential Nietzsche
Автор: Nietzche Friedrich Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112010-05-25
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A prominent intellectual of the Weimar era, Heinrich Mann was a leading authority on Nietzsche. This volume consists of Mann's selections of highlights from the philosopher's works — The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and others — along with an introduction that explains their significance.
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Almayer's Folly
Автор: Conrad Joseph Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092008-08-21
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Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrad's first novel with the qualities that have made him one of the most popular and most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant isolated in 19th-century Borneo, the machinations of his bitter Malayan wife, and the loss of his much loved daughter.
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Love: A Book of Quotations
Автор: Braybrooks Ann Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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A heart set on love will do no wrong, declared Confucius. This compact gift book features an international assortment of romantic ruminations from ancient and modern philosophers, playwrights, poets, novelists, commentators, critics, and actors, from Ovid to Bruce Lee. Wise, worldly, sentimental, and cynical, the quotes will touch hearts all year long.
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A Christmas Carol
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1991 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091992-12-16
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This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has become as much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths.
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The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Автор: Wilde Oscar Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102013-08-17
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Renowned for his poetry, plays, essays, and conversational skills, Oscar Wilde also wrote delightfully entertaining works of short fiction. This volume contains four of his finest. Most celebrated is The Canterville Ghost, a delightfully comical tale centering around the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville, who for some 300 years has terrorized the residents and employees of Canterville Chase. When the house is bought by the Otises, an American family that refuses to believe in such supernatural nonsense, hilarious results ensue. Also included here are The Sphinx Without a Secret, about an enigmatic woman who carries the key to a mystery with her to the grave; The Model Millionaire, the charming story of a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession; as well as Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. Rounding out the volume are Wilde's lyrical Poems in Prose, including The Artist, The Doer of Good, The Disciple, and 3 more. These diverting stories offer the wit, whimsy, and imaginative gusto of one of the 19th century's most scintillating masters of the English language.
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The Wisdom of the Buddha
Автор: Muller F. Max Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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These ancient verses offer a compelling introduction to Buddhist thought, revealing the Four Truths — concerning the nature of the world and our lot in it — and the Eightfold Path to enlightenment, the means by which to overcome the essential suffering revealed by the Four Truths as the essence of life.
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Dore's Illustrations for Paradise Lost
Автор: Dore Gustave Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20091995-12-26
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This volume presents superb royalty-free reproductions of all 50 plates Dore created for a 19th-century edition of Paradise Lost. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from Heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve and the Flood.
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Napoleon's Military Maxims
Автор: Bonaparte Napoleon Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102010-07-23
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This classic brings together a rich sampling of the knowledge and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders. The concise text not only provides a fascinating glimpse of the French leader's intellectual ability for conducting military operations but also reveals his thoughts, theories and commentaries on waging war and the art of conducting statecraft. Equally relevant to today's entrepreneur, the book is packed with maneuvers that can be applied just as easily to increasing revenues on the battlefield of commerce. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Freemantle and Co., London, 1901.
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Pugin's Ecclesiastical Ornament
Автор: Pugin Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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This Victorian artist/architect A. Welby Pugin is perhaps best known for his work on the Houses of Parliament in the neo-Gothic style, but he also produced a wealth of beautiful ecclesiastical designs that hark back to their medieval roots. Hundreds of his best designs for embellishing crosses, altar cloths, and church vestments are shown in magnificent colour on the 59 plates in this new anthology.
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Perspective for Painters
Автор: Etter Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2013 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20182016-04-12
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knowledge of perspective is invaluable to any painter working in a realistic style. Systems of perspective can be applied by mechanical techniques or by freehand. Since the best approach for the beginner is to learn basic mechanical drawing methods, the reader is shown how to work out these systems with drafting tools. Once these are understood, they can be applied to freehand work, so that the artist has a great deal of control when representing objects in space. The book demonstrates the essentials of perspective drawing through the use of colour sketches and overlays, accompanied by finished paintings. This system is then applied to actual in-the-field painting situations that cover a broad range of subjects: landscape, still life, interiors, figures, and portraits. Authors Howard Etter and Margit Malmstrom, both working artists, present this often intimidating subject in a non-threatening manner especially geared to the beginning or intermediate artist. Howard Etter is a painter, architectural delineator, and design consultant. He has had extensive experience teaching perspective for both architects and artists. Margit Malmstrom is the author of three Watson-Guptill titles on clay sculpture.
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