Shaw G Caesar and Cleopatra = Цезарь и Клеопатра: пьесса на англ.яз

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "Lay Morals and Other Papers" is a wonderful collection of essays including works like "Father Damien", "The Pentland Rising", "The Day After To-morrow" and "The Great North Road."

Оскар Уайльд - английский философ, писатель, поэт и один из самых известных драматургов XIX века. "Женщина, не стоящая внимания" - блестящая пьеса автора, написанная ярким языком, прекрасно иллюстрирующая быт и нравы английского светского общества, обличает его пороки и заблуждения, шокирует незабываемыми образами. Так кто же она - Женщина, не стоящая внимания, и что кроется в её прошлом? • Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Франсуа Рабле - один из величайших французских сатириков XVI века, чьи произведения считаются классикой мировой литературы. «Гаргантюа и Пантагрюэль» - это самое известное произведение Рабле, которое остаётся актуальным и по сей день. Гротескный роман в сатирической манере описывает путешествие отца и сына в страну Великанов. Читателя ждут необычные персонажи, яркое повествование и незабываемые приключения! Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Уильям Шекспир - один из самых значимых и таинственных писателей, эталон английской поэзии и драматургии. Споры по поводу его авторства и личности не утихают до сих пор, но это нисколько не умаляет величия волшебных строк, приписываемых автору • Трагический надрыв, шёпот страсти и яркие образы мастерски сплетены в шедевре мировой литературы, повествующем о бессмертной любви Ромео и Джульетты, которая продолжает вдохновлять сердца людей во всём мире

Пигмалион - одно из величайших произведений Джорджа Бернарда Шоу. История о простой цветочнице Элизы Дулиттл, которая решила стать настоящей леди, обратившись за помощью к вздорному и высокомерному профессору лингвистики. Он берётся научить Элизу правильному произношению и избавиться от её кокни-акцента. Остроумная комедия показывает искусственность различия социальных классов и обнаруживает, что говорить, как леди, - не то же самое, что быть ею • Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

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

The book contains the poetry defined by such poetic genres as the love verses, landscape, philosophical, and civic poetry. It reflects the views of the poet upon modern processes that take place in our society, the tendencies in their changes, it reflects a complex pattern of relationships of the people • Much attention is paid to the formation of the system of values among people and its compliance with the values system of society and the country. The poems show the beauty and power of an impact the poetry has upon things that take place, a personality of a person, one's aspirations for self-expression and perfection • The reader, whom author loves dearly, and whose opinion is always considered, will give an objective assessment of the book's contents

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The Rover is a novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again to action in a mission of danger, patriotism and heroism

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them

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

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes wonderful stories like "The First and The Last", "A Stoic", "The Apple Tree", "The Juryman" and "Indian Summer of a Forsyte"

The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air