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Byatt A. S. The Virgin In The Garden
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires. The First Frederica Potter Novel
3488 Руб.
Пуччини - Мадам Батерфлай, Набор виниловых пластинок (3 шт)
СодержаниеAct I A1 The Little House With A Garden In NagasakiB1 (The End)Act II, Scene I C1 The Little House With A Garden In NagasakiD1 (The End)Act II, Scene II E1 The Little House With A Garden In NagasakiF1 (The End)
1644 Руб.
Byatt A. S. Medusas Ankles. Selected Stories
Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and travel from Ancient myth to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairytale palace. Driven by curiosity, Byatt takes her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary and the gloss of the fantastical, to a place rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable.
7085 Руб.
Ip Rachel The Last Garden
In the middle of a city, a little girl tends to the last garden. But the city is breaking and everyone is leaving. Will the garden ever bloom again? The perfect story to open up conversations about war and migration with little ones, anywhere in the world. In a war-torn city, a little girl tends to the last garden. But everyone is leaving and soon the girl has to leave too. The garden is all alone now but soon the seeds scatter throughout and the roots take hold. Inspired by true events in Syria and war gardens around the world and throughout history, The Last Garden is a thoughtful, tender story of hope, touching on issues of conflict and migration, from a talented debut picture book pairing.
826 Руб.
Cassely Jean-Pierre Тайны Прованса
A statue of pregnant Virgin Mary, an astronomical observatory in a former nuclear missile silo, a hotel room in a tree or a gipsy caravan, primitive Provencal artists, the mark of Christ's knee, a fountain that flows with wine, a caiman dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a church in a theatre, an erotic medieval bas relief, a countess who returned to life, a Provencal Villa Medicis, a false volcano at La Roquebrusane, a "sheep bridge" at Arles, a rain-making saint, an alchemist's garden, a magic palindrome at Oppede... Provence is not limited to postcard cliches about fields of lavender or picturesque villages where pastis-drinking inhabitants pass the time playing petanque. For those who manage to stray from the beaten paths, Provence is full of surprising features and curious sights that will amaze residents as well as visitors who thought they knew all there is to know about this region.
1359 Руб.
Addison Allen Sarah Garden Spells
Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that s been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic. Claire has always clung to the Waverleys roots, tending the enchanted soil in the family garden from which she makes her sought-after delicacies famed and feared for their curious effects. She has everything she thinks she needs until one day she waked to find a stranger has moved in next door and a tendril of ivy has crept into her garden... Claire s carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control.
2210 Руб.
Burnett Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden tells the story of Mary Lennox, a child who is spoiled, unliked, and tragically orphaned. She is sent to live with her uncle, who resides in a magnificent manor in the Yorkshire countryside. Mary discovers a garden tucked away in the manor’s grounds, and as the dilapidated garden transforms, so does the young girl. This book, which powerfully shows the healing power of nature, has resonated with generations of readers. Now fans of all ages can rediscover The Secret Garden in this beautiful clothbound edition featuring the exquisite color illustrations by Charles Robinson that appeared in the original British edition of 1911. A new introduction by Alice A. Carter, an expert on Golden Age illustration, discusses the earliest illustrators of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s timeless tale.
5671 Руб.
Atwood Margaret The Penelopiad
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder. The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
1450 Руб.
Various Artists Виниловая пластинка Various Artists Het Beste Uit De New Wave 100 Vol. 2
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. Het Beste Uit De New Wave 100 Vol. 2. Виниловая пластинка . 3 lp A1 Siouxsie & The Banshees– Hong Kong Garden A2 The Cramps– Goo Goo Muck A3 Liaisons Dangereuses– Los Niños Del Parque A4 D. A. F.*– Der Mussolini A5 Yello– Bostich B1 Executive Slacks– The Bus B2 Crash Course In Science– Flying Turns B3 Dave Ball– Passion Of A Primitive B4 Shriekback– All Lined Up B5 Luc Van Acker– Zanna C1 The Cure– Charlotte Sometimes C2 A Flock Of Seagulls– Wishing (I Had A Photograph Of You) C3 Simple Minds– New Gold Dream C4 Soft Cell– Tainted Love C5 Tears For Fears– Mad World D1 Anne Clark– Sleeper In Metropolis D2 The Neon Judgement– The Fashion Party D3 No More– Suicide Commando D4 Fehlfarben– Ein Jahr (Es Geht Voran) D5 Grauzone– Eisbär E1 Virgin Prunes– Baby Turns Blue E2 Arbeid Adelt!– Death Disco E3 Heaven 17– Let Me Go E4 Tuxedomoon– In A Manner Of Speaking E5 XTC– Making Plans For Nigel F1 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark– Enola Gay F2 The Human League– The Lebanon F3 Iggy Pop– The Passenger F4 Red Zebra– The Art Of Conversation F5 De Brassers– En Toen Was Er Niets Meer Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
12636 Руб.
McEwan Ian Enduring Love
Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, Enduring Love is a tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan. As featured on bbc2's between the covers. Discover the tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan. One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Joe's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. 'A plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night' A.S. Byatt
3169 Руб.
Twain M. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
One of Twain`s most celebrated novellas, `The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg` is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold.
1353 Руб.
Twain Mark, Твен Марк The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
One of Twain`s most celebrated novellas, `The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg` is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold.
1353 Руб.
Twain M. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
One of Twain`s most celebrated novellas, `The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg` is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold.
1353 Руб.
Byatt A. S. The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye
A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in possession - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and middle eastern settings. The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself, and has inspired the new film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
3539 Руб.
Garden Stories
Gardens have been fruitful settings for stories ever since Adam and Eve were ejected from Paradise. This delightfully wide-ranging collection brings together all sorts of tales of the tilled earth, featuring secret gardens, enchanted gardens, gardens public and private, grand and humble. Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden-Party.” The family in Doris Lessing’s “Flavours of Exile” hauls succulent vegetables and fruits from the rich African soil, and Colette in “Bygone Spring” luxuriates in extravagantly blooming flowers. Children discover their own peculiar paradises in Sandra Cisneros’s “The Monkey Garden” and Italo Calvino’s “The Enchanted Garden,” while adult gardeners find things that move and haunt them in William Maxwell’s “The French Scarecrow” and Jamaica Kincaid’s “The Garden I Have in Mind.” Gardens of the imagination round out the anthology: the beautiful but fatal garden of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” the crystal buds of J. G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time,” ravenous orchids in John Collier’s “Green Thoughts,” and Matsudo Aoko’s “Planting,” in which a young woman plants each day whatever she has been given—roses and violets, buttons and broken cups, love and fear and sorrow. Garden Stories is an abundant crop of entrancing stories and the perfect gift for gardeners of all kinds.
4862 Руб.
Burnett Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden
This story of a key that leads a lonely girl to a secret garden is a beloved children s classic. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett s children s novel published in 1911, this retelling, simply and warmly written, will charm youngsters. They ll fall in love with Mary, her gentle friend Dickon, and the beautiful garden they bring to life.
852 Руб.