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Sleeping Beauty(1993) EVANS, C SThis most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of the spring revival of the earth after a long winter.Vezava: Trda18,05 € -
Grimms' Fairy Tales(1992) GRIMM, JACOB,GRIMM, WILHELMFirst published in Germany in 1812, these tales were collected by the two brothers Grimm from neighbouring villages and spinning rooms, and include "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Rumpelstiltskin". Arthur Rackham's illustrationVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes(1993) JERROLD, WALTEREvery child's bookshelf should start with a collection of nursery rhymes so that these fantastic and nonsensical verses (some so old their meaning is long forgotten) are among the first magical words to sound in a child's ear.Vezava: Trda18,05 € -
Treasure Island(1992) STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUISStevenson's great adventure story, set in the 18th century, was conceived in the Scottish Highlands, where the author and his 12-year-old stepson amused themselves by making a map that showed the location of buried treasure on an island. The illustrationsVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Milton Poems(1996) MILTON, JOHNJohn Milton (1608-74) was celebrated in his time as a public servant of the Cromwellian regime and as the author of brilliant polemical pamphlets about education religion and freedom of speech, but his posthumous reputation rests principally on his work aVezava: Trda13,88 € -
Just So Stories(1992) KIPLING, RUDYARDKipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as "how the camel got his hump" and "how the whale got his throat", are complemented by the author's illustrations, wVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Book Of Nonsense(1992) LEAR, EDWARDEdward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to amuse the children with comic drawings and rhymes. This boVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Child's Garden Of Verses(1992) STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUISStevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were firsVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Pushkin Eugene Onegin And Other Poems(1999) PUSHKIN, ALEXANDERPushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large.Vezava: Trda16,68 € -
Pied Piper Of Hamelin(1993) BROWNING, ROBERTFirst published in 1842, Robert Browning's poetic version of the legend about the lost children of Hamelin is sub-titled 'A Child's Story' and was originally intended only for the private enjoyment of Willie Macready, young son of the famous actor.Vezava: Trda15,27 € -
Henry James Collected Stories Vol 2(2000) JAMES, HENRYThese are the magnificient works of James' maturity - The Death of the Lion, The Altar of the Dead, The Figyre in the Carpet, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, The Beast in the Jungle and many others - in which the deepening darkness of the author's ownVezava: Trda34,74 € -
Fables(1992) AESOPAesop is believed to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The Fables had already been popular for centuries before Roger L'Estrange published a new English translation in 1692, with the declared intention of making aVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Coleridge: Poems & Prose(1997) TAYLOR COLERIDGE, SAMUELA few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER.Vezava: Trda13,88 € -
Donne Poems And Prose(1995) DONNE, JOHNThe major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. All these genres are represented in this volume, together with a selection from his prayers, letters and sermons, presenting a completeVezava: Trda16,68 € -
Hopkins Poems And Prose(1995) HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEYThe greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin.Vezava: Trda16,68 € -
Wonderful Wizard Of Oz(1992) BAUM, FRANKFrank Baum set out to write 'a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nighmares are left out'.Vezava: Trda18,05 € -
Light In The Forest(2005) RICHTER, CONRADBut when the tribe signs a treaty that requires them to return their white captives, 15-year-old True Son is returned against his will to the family he had long forgotten, and to a life that he no longer understands or desires.Vezava: Trda15,27 € -
Rossetti Poems(1993) ROSSETTI, CHRISTINAAn exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics' 128pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The bVezava: Trda16,68 € -
Robinson Crusoe(1993) DEFOE, DANIELDefoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719.Vezava: Trda20,84 € -
Hardy Poems(1995) HARDY, THOMASDistringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse.Vezava: Trda13,88 €
