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Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 107 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20082007-10-23
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Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encylopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious pursuit.
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Eric Gill's Masterpieces of Wood Engraving
Автор: Gill Eric Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2012 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20132014-05-22
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This original collection gathers the finest woodcuts of one of the most creative and prolific English artists of the early 20th century. Ranging from the religious to the erotic, featured designs include well-known images inspired by The Song of Songs, The Canterbury Tales, and the four Gospels. A feast for the eyes and an important and accessible reference.
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The Golden Cockerel: From the Original Russian Fairy Tale of Alexander Pushkin
Автор: Pogany Elaine Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092007-10-11
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Elaine Pogany recounts a beloved Russian fairy tale of a king, a wizard, and a magic bird in charming prose that will delight readers of all ages. This classic also receives a stunning artistic treatment from one of the masters of book illustration, her husband Willy Pogany, whose color and black-and-white pictures adorn every page.
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Four Great Russian Plays
Автор: Chekhov Anton Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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Masterpieces by great writers from the golden age of Russian theater: The Inspector General by Gogol; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; Gorky's The Lower Depths; and A Month in the Country by Turgenev. Essential reading for courses in modern theater, these widely acclaimed works will be appreciated, as well, by theatergoers and drama lovers.
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Birds of Prey: Stained Glass Coloring Book
Автор: Soffer Ruth Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2001 Страниц: 8 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092002-06-11
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Peregrine falcon, great horned owl, goshawk, American kestrel, black vulture, osprey, red-tailed hawk, and bald eagle are realistically and boldly outlined on translucent paper. After coloring, put near light source for stained-glass effects. 8 full-page designs on translucent paper.
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American Short Story Masterpieces
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 239 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20092010-08-17
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An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty.
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Fantastic Ornament, Series Two: 118 Designs and Motifs
Автор: Hauser Arnold Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2013 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20182018-08-27
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Engraved in the 19th century, these flamboyant ornamental designs are based on a wide variety of historical examples, dating back as far as the 1500s and including images by Watteau and Durer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes.
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Steampunk Iron-On Transfer Patterns
Автор: Szczerba Ramona Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2013 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142016-09-12
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More than 40 hip and humorous iron-on transfers in the popular steampunk mode offer a distinctive way for the fashion-conscious to decorate their clothes and possessions. Suitable for embellishing jackets, corsets, handbags, pillows, and other fabric items, the transfers feature stylized robots, blimps, clock faces, and a host of other mash-up motifs.
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Eighty Drawings: Including The Weaker Sex. The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor
Автор: Gibson Charles Dana Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2013 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20152018-08-17
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This affordable edition reprints in its entirety one of Charles Dana Gibson's best collections of iconic drawings as published in their original form over a century ago. Not only are there dozens of gorgeous Gibson Girls on display, this volume includes the artist's The Weaker Sex series, featuring a bachelor enraptured by these free-spirited beauties.
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Golden-Age Illustrations of W: Heath Robinson
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2013 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20142015-05-22
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Edited and with an Introduction by an expert on Golden Age illustrators, this anthology is the first full-scale treatment of Robinson's early output. More than 100 Art Nouveau-inspired illustrations feature images from fairy tales, children's literature, and the works of Shakespeare, Kipling, and Poe, many in full glorious color.
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Pen and Ink Drawing
Автор: Lohan Frank Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20102007-07-21
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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.
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The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales
Автор: Ransome Arthur Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2004 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20092009-08-21
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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.
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Pride and prejudice
Автор: Austen Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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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.
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300 Art Nouveau Designs and motifs in Full Color
Автор: Grafton Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102010-10-11
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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.
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Great English Short stories
Автор: Negri Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092008-04-29
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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.»
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Viking Designs
Автор: Smith Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102010-10-11
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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.
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The Strange Case of Dr: Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Автор: Stevenson Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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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.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Автор: Wilde Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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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.
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1500 Decorative Ornaments (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2000 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092002-10-27
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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.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Автор: Twain Mark Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2002 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20092005-09-17
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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.
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