Gargantua and Pantagruel = Гаргантюа и Пантагрюэль: на англ.яз. Rabelais F

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge

Designed and created as both a valuable tool for beginners and a strong support for professional artists, the Leonardo Collection stands out for its clear explanations, plain language, and especially for its intelligent, well-directed choice of illustrations • The Collection offers exhaustive information on methods and strategies in both drawing and painting, starting from the basics of drawing and gradually presenting various media and techniques in a vast range of subjects. The first five titles of the series have been adopted by many art schools throughout the world because of the informative and easy to follow step-by-step practice and demonstration approach. Each manual in the Leonardo Collection explores a single subject matter, but taken together they create a comprehensive survey of drawing and painting useful for artists of all levels and abilities who want to expand their knowledge and skills

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This book includes two wonderful short stories: mysterious and unpredictable "The Sire de Maletroits Door" and witty and inspiring "Providence and the Guitar."

James Barrie (1860—1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan, a free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up. "Peter Pan and Wendy" tells about Peter Pan's friendship with Wendy Darling and her brothers and their journey to his island home Neverland. This story is full of magic, marvelous adventures and battles with evil Captain Hook

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This volume includes wonderful stories like "In a Far Country", "The Men of Forty Mile", "The Son of the Wolf" itself and others. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by Cooper. Set in 1796-1804, it follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel is partially autobiographical, based on Cooper's own experiences as a sailor

Tverskaya Oblast is a heart of Russia. The Upper Volga region, which is a huge area, equal to Belgium and Switzerland together, is advantageously located between two Russian capitals -Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is a land of endless forests and deep lakes, of which Lake Seliguer - a pearl of Central Russia - is best known. Imperceptible streamlets in Tverskaya Oblast give rise to great Russian rivers - Volga and Zapadnaya Dvina (Daugava). Curative and saint springs, unique monuments of Russian architecture, old noble centres related to great persons of Russia, Pushkin's places - Bernovo, Staritsa, Torzhok... Many cities of the Tver region is a real monuments of the Russian history and culture; some of them are older than Moscow.Many worthy epithets and fine metaphors are related to our Russian remote places, the Tver region

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of GaskelPs best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters. The Short Stories II is a beautiful collection of five stories, including Christmas Storms and Sunshine - beautiful and heart-warming Christmas tale

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century. She also was part of a group of English intellectuals, writers, and artists, graduates of Cambridge, called the Bloomsbury group. "The Voyage Out" is Woolf's first novel, and it revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel Vinrace, on a sea voyage from London to the South American coast. On the ship, Rachel faces different people: politicians, writers, scientists. She learns life, experiences the first feeling, and then even real love, and begins to understand what is valuable in human relations

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a complete mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collinss success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. Sister Rose is Set against the background of the French Revolution and concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danvilles land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaines father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danvilles animosity