These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant`s Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos.Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.
ISBN: 9781853261022
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
Each page of this beautifully illustrated book is filled with things to spot in nature. From birds and bugs to flowers and trees, Poppy and Sam take the readers on a journey through different locations and the things they might find there. Every detailed little picture has a label giving some information, making it a perfect way for little children to start learning about the natural world around them.
An interactive board book with over 60 flaps, exploring all kinds of questions that young children love to ask. Children will enjoy lifting the flaps to discover who, what, when, where, how, which and why. Provides friendly, simple answers to challenging questions, with entertaining and informative illustrations. A perfect book to dip into – great for inquisitive little ones!
ISBN: 9781409523338
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2012
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "Kenelm Chillingly" is one of Bulwer`s most popular novels of English life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves home in search of adventures as an unknown pedestrian with a few pounds in his pocket, but he does not expect, that adventures will change him cardinally.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08277-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2019
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician, A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "Kenelm Chillingly" is one of Bulwer`s most popular novels of English life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves home in search of adventures as an unknown pedestrian with a few pounds in his pocket, but he does not expect, that adventures will change him cardinally.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08276-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2019
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame`s book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection.
ISBN: 9781840227826
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Исторический приключенческий роман Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. Главный герой - семнадцатилетний Дэвид Бэлфур. Его родители погибли, оставив юношу наедине со взрослым миром. Однако в замке Шос, который пользуется репутацией мрачного и безрадостного места, проживает дядя Дэвида. Юноша начинает подозревать, что именно он является законным наследником семейного имущества, но дядя совершенно не намерен...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05530-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Two men — a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama — are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06023-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. King Solomon`s Mines tells a story of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain. Allan Quatermain is a sequel of King Solomon`s Mines based on author`s own experience in the African continent. Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Together with Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa he survives fierce encounters with Masai warriors, undergoes a terrifying subterranean journey, and discovers a lost civilization before being caught up in a passionate love-triangle.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07719-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
In King Solomon`s Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry`s brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom. Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition, though he has little hope they will return alive. After suffering unimaginable hardships, they find the treasure hidden deep within a mountain, but while they are admiring the hoard the vast stone door closes. Their store of food and water rapidly runs out and the trapped men prepare to die, but in the nick of time they find a way of escape. On their return trek to civilisation they succeed in the purpose of their expedition when they...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-628-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul" is a satirical social novel about a young man, Artie Kipps. Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, he is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman - and the inheritor of his fortune.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08245-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
"Knives" is a detective story. Three attempts were made to kill Clara Yurievna, a tax officer, daughter of a wealthy businessman, bride of a famous professor. The method of murder was all the same, pretty strange for our times. The author reveals a wide range of characters, day-to-day rules and life situations.
ISBN: 978-5-00153-165-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Lady Anna" is a novel, written in 1871 and first published in book form in 1874. The protagonist is a young woman who, through an extraordinary set of circumstances, has fallen in love with and become engaged to a tailor. The novel describes her attempts to resolve the conflict between her duty to her social class and her duty to the man she loves.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08339-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Soon after its publication Lady Chatterley`s Lover (1928) became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words. This last of Lawrence`s novels reflects his belief that men and women must overcome the deadening restrictions of industrialized society.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00545-1
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: август 2017
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" is the novel with which D.H.Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it became a world-wide best-seller when Penguin Books successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them publishing an unexpurgated edition. The famous "Lady Chatterley trial" heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservatism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-488-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: март 2011
Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children.These classic stories are based on the original Ladybird retellings by Vera Southgate, with beautiful new illustrations of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail.An essential part of any child`s bookshelf, Ladybird Tales are perfect for sharing together and creating memories to treasure forever.This beautiful treasury brings together five of everyone`s favourite fairy tales: Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Puss in Boots.
ISBN: 9780723299066
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: июнь 2017