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"Дерево, которому суждено быть" • Юваля Зоммера - великолепная рождественская книжка с картинками, которой суждено стать праздничной классикой. Маленькая елочка слишком мала и слишком несовершенна, чтобы ее можно было выбрать на Рождество. Но то, что дерево остается одно в лесу, приносит больше наград, чем оно когда-либо могло надеяться • Книга на английском языке • A gorgeous Christmas picture book that's destined to become a festive classic. A little fir tree is too small and too imperfect to be chosen at Christmas time. But being left alone in the forest brings more rewards than the tree could ever have hoped for • This is a charming and classic-feeling Christmas picture book with a heartfelt message about love and embracing what makes us different

История Пасхи рассказана здесь глазами осла, который вез Иисуса в Иерусалим. Этот прекрасный и чувственный пересказ Брайана Уайлдсмита, одного из наших самых известных детских авторов 20-го века, идеально подходит для того, чтобы поделиться им с детьми. Книга "Пасхальная история" представлена в красивом подарочном формате с потрясающим рисунком из фольги на тканевой обложке в твердом переплете • Книга на английском языке • The story of Easter is told here through the eyes of the donkey that carried Jesus into Jerusalem. This beautiful and sensitive retelling from Brian Wildsmith, one of our most acclaimed children's authors of the 20th century, is perfect for sharing with children. It is presented in a beautiful gift format with stunning foil design on a clothbound hardback cover

What happens when a man lives his life backwards, or a family owns a diamond as big as the Ritz Hotel? • How can a boring girl become more popular, a careless young woman become more sensible, or a cut-glass bowl destroy a married woman's life? • What does a young man do to save the girl that he likes from an evil ghost, or to forget old feelings for a woman when she marries another man? • Read this collection of short stories by one of America's finest storytellers to find out • Retold by Clare West

"Рождественские истории Penguin Book" - идеальный подарок в этот рождественский сезон, щедрая подборка величайших праздничных историй всех времен • Здесь представлены классические рассказы таких писателей, как Трумэн Капоте, Ширли Джексон, Дилан Томас, Саки и Чехов, а также малоизвестные сокровища, такие как "косой взгляд" Итало Кальвино на рождественское потребительство, "История праздничной изобретательности" Вольфдитриха Шнурре в Берлине, "Зачарованный лес" Сельмы Лагерлеф в Швеции и Ирен Немеровски.мрачный семейный портрет. С Санта-клаусами, привидениями, троллями, неожиданными гостями, ворчунами и чудесами - вот Рождество, каким его представляли некоторые из величайших авторов коротких рассказов всех времен • Книга на английском языке • The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition • This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space

What does a young man do to save the girl that he likes from an evil ghost, or to forget old feelings for a woman when she marries another man? • Read this collection of short stories by one of America's finest storytellers to find out • Retold by Clare West

Oxford Read and Imagine is a fiction series written for primary and pre-primary students. Young learners follow Rosie, Ben and Grandpa on their adventures and grow up with the characters as they read and learn • Grandpa has a new machine. It's a Cake Machine. But can Grandpa make a cake for Rosie and Ben?

The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters - Cora and Alice - want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua. On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be heroes and some people will die. And what will happen to their friend Uncas, the last of the Mohican Indians? • Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The Great Gatsby (1925) is probably the most popular American novel of the twentieth century. This new edition incorporates the latest critical approaches and uses the first edition American text as F. Scott Fitzgerald intended it. Generously annotated, a fluent and perceptive introduction details Fitzgerald's struggle to write the novel, its critical reception, and its significance for future generations

A heart-warming story, set in the days leading up to Christmas, about one little girl's magical encounter with a unicorn • Christmas is just days away. A little girl called Milly and her Mum are staying at Grandpa's house. Dad has been kept away but will join them just as soon as he can. But Milly feels a little forlorn, away from her friends and without her Dad. And then something wonderful happens. Milly meets Florian, a unicorn. One snowy night, he patters into Grandpa's house and transforms Milly's Christmas, filling it with friendship, surprise and sparkle. And somehow, Florian makes all Milly's wishes come true. Anna Currey has crafted a beautifully written and sensitively illustrated picture book that will delight every generation as families come together at Christmas

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as "The Snowstorm", "Lucerne", "The Diary of a Madman", and "The Devil" are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. "Strider" and "Father Sergy", as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights • These stories range over much of the nineteenth-century Russian world, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree

'Bring me something new and exciting. Bring me a BIG story!' says Rosie's editor at The Record newspaper • And, when she leaves the office, Rosie does find a story. A story that is bigger than she expects. A story that takes her across Europe, into a dangerous world of art and art thieves

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known • This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany