Vintage books Wise Children Картер Анджела

Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain's greatest and most original writers • Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast.' • And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing

Прочтите самую классическую утешительную фантастическую историю о совершеннолетии - "Пятеро детей и Это" Эдит Несбит • - Разве ты не узнаешь песчаную фею, когда видишь ее? • Осмелюсь сказать, вы часто задумывались о том, что бы вы сделали, если бы вам исполнили три желания. Пятеро детей - Сирил, Антея, Роберт, Джейн и их младший брат - часто говорили об этом, но когда они сталкиваются со сварливой песчаной феей, им трудно принять решение. И это только начало их дилемм. Как они обнаруживают, нет ничего лучше желания навлечь на вас ужасные неприятности • Книга на английском языке • Read the ultimate classic comforting coming of age fantasy story • 'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?' • I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes

Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered • There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large • Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?

Откройте для себя классический феминистский пересказ любимых сказок Анджелы Картер, переплетенный мастером соблазнительного, яркого повествования • Из знакомых сказок и легенд - "Красная шапочка", "Синяя Борода", "Кот в сапогах", "Красавица и чудовище", "Вампиры и оборотни" - Анджела Картер создала захватывающую коллекцию мрачных, чувственных, фантастических историй • Книга на английском языке • Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling • From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories

"Я начала писать короткие пьесы, когда жила в комнате, слишком маленькой для написания романа". Так говорит Анджела Картер об этом сборнике, написанном во время проживания в Тойко. Эти экзотические, чувственные истории представляют собой первое крупное достижение Картера в форме короткого рассказа. Пышные воображаемые леса, смертоносное кукольное представление и экспрессионистское видение Японии: каждое из них мгновенно создает атмосферу, мрачную и светлую по очереди, созданную узнаваемо смелым воображением одного из великих стилистов двадцатого века • Книга на английском языке • 'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko

This collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life’. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am an American fad—of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop’ • Like Vonnegut’s books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection • Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries • The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation

Две семьи. Семь дней. Один дом • Анджела и ее брат Ричард провели двадцать лет, избегая друг друга. Теперь, после смерти их матери, они собирают свои семьи вместе на каникулы в арендованном доме на границе с Уэльсом. Четверо взрослых и четверо детей. Семь дней совместных трапез, разведения костров, карточных игр и прогулок по мокрому снегу • Но в тишине и неподвижности долины начинают появляться призраки. Родители, которые, как думал Ричард, были у него. Родители, которые, как думала Анджела, были у нее. Прошлые и настоящие любовники. Друзья, враги, жертвы, спасители • Марк Хэддон, автор книг "Любопытный случай с собакой в ночное время" и "Место беспокойства", написал роман "Красный дом", который является забавным, пронзительным и глубоко проницательным о человеческих жизнях

If you love Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes,you’ll adore The Bell Family • 'Well, little people, what's the news?’ • Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend, Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then there's all the children – practical Paul, dancing Jane, mischievous Ginnie, and finally the baby of the family, Angus, whose ambition is to own a private zoo (he has already begun with his six boxes of caterpillars). And not forgetting Esau, a surefire competitor for the most beautiful dog in Britain • Follow their eventful lives from tense auditions to birthday treats; from troubled times to hilarious escapades • Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out which one of the Bell children you most resemble! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives

The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents • Twelve years of marriage, three children, a husband, Henrik, with whom she no longer finds anything in common: Anna is at the end of her tether. Besides, she’s in love – with Henrik’s friend Tomas, a student-priest, who is everything her husband is not • Based upon film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s own family life, Personal Confessions is the final part in Bergman’s loose trilogy of books that started with The Best Intentions and Sunday’s Children

The second novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents • Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the terrible realisation that his father and mother are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, its rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family’s ramshackle summer home threatens to bring to a close the bright, brilliant haze of Pu’s childhood world • Based upon film-maker Ingmar Bergman’s own family life, Sunday’s Children is the second part in Bergman’s loose trilogy of books that started with The Best Intentions, and closes with Private Confessions

‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’ • Dr Dolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his friends Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Too-Too the owl, the parrot Polynesia, as well as rabbits in the pantry, white mice in the piano and a crocodile in the fish pond. Why do the animals love Dolittle so? Its because he can speak their language, and because he's the best animal doctor for miles around. When the monkeys in Africa call on his aid, Doctor Dolittle sets off on an marvellous voyage, encountering bad-tempered kings, fearsome pirates and the mysterious pushmi-pullyu along the way • Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can learn about the different ways that animals talk to each other! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives