"Модата е взета вместо цивилизацията." Това послание отправя Добри Войников в предговора на своята комедия "Криворазбраната цивилизация", завършена в Букурещ през май 1871 г. Тя разглежда тема, която е актуална и днес - за сблъсъка между традиционната и външната култура, за отношенията между родното и чуждото. В произведението авторът порицава онова разбиране за цивилизованост и култура, което се изчерпва с механичното подражаване на последните моди и тенденции, заради които човек дори е склонен да забрави своя род и обичаи. Така тази "мнима цивилизация" се оказва способна да заблуди ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become. A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In this hugely influential, groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds himself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful, but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear - the Eloi are not the only race to have inherited the earth. When his time machine disappears, the Time ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Lidenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons, and danger and excitement wait around every corner. Richly illustrated by Édouard Riou, the French painter and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One wild, snowy night on the Yorkshire moors, a gentleman asks about Wuthering Heights, the remote farmhouse inhabited by his mysterious landlord. He is told about the tragic romance of the beautiful, headstrong Cathy and the orphan Heathcliff, who - although desperately in love her - is rejected in favor of a rich suitor. But Cathy cannot forget him, and he develops a lust for revenge that will take over his life as he attempts to win her back, and to destroy everyone, and everything, he considers responsible for his loss. One of the great novels of the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepartout, he sets off on a thrilling journey. Adventure, chaos and romance ensue as the daring pair harness the new power of steam to escape their ever-increasing enemies and beat the clock. The exciting adventures of Fogg and Passepartout in Jules Verne' ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Frankenstein" is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his "monster" pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of their humanity are lost. In 1831, Mary ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Three adventurers set out to kill a sea monster, but all is not as it seems. Out in the vast expanse of the Pacific they find not a beast but a submarine - the Nautilus, an advanced craft captained by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Captured and hauled aboard, they accompany him through coral reefs, shipwrecks, and ancient ruins. There they hunt sharks, and battle giant squid, not realizing that the greatest danger is Nemo himself, who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance. Beautifully illustrated by the French painter Édouard Riou, who worked ... |
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Публикуван за пръв път през 1847 г., "Още десет години по-късно" описва двора на Луи XIV и предлага една романтична версия за загадката около Желязната маска. Героите от "Тримата мускетари" са остарели, но се впускат в последната си битка за справедливост. След 35 години вярна служба, д'Артанян подава оставка като лейтенант на мускетарите, която той приема от младия крал-слънце Луи XIV. Заедно със своите стари приятели е въвлечен в новия дворцов свят - свят на интриги, шпионаж, ревност, коварство. Мускетарите се намесват в легендарната история за двойника на краля-слънце - мистериозния човек зад ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Cast away for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, "Robinson Crusoe" is one of the most enduring novels in the English language and its unique blend of extraordinary realism and brilliant drama continues to ... |
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Книга от поредицата "Българска класика" ... Класическите произведения на българската литература са слънчевите стълбове, крепящи националното ни самосъзнание. Те са кристалните мостове на възторга, по които Отечеството ще премине през огън и страдание и ще пребъде в третото хилядолетие. Издателство "Захарий Стоянов" предлага специална поредица - най-доброто от високата българска класика. Всеки том е придружен от статии, анализиращи от различни гледни точки творчеството на българските класици. Изданието е насочено към ученици и студенти, както и към широката българска общественост. Томът съдържа " ... |
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Дон Кихот е необикновена книга. Вече четири столетия тя буди удивление и възторг, кара хората по целия свят да се смеят и да страдат, кара ги и дълбоко да се замислят. А нейните герои - безподобният рицар и оръженосецът му - отдавна са напуснали страниците и, за да заживеят сред нас, а сигурно и във всеки от нас. За гениалната творба е писано много, изписани са хиляди страници, но едва ли някога ще може да се каже, че е написано всичко, защото внимателният читател винаги може да открие в нея нещо ново, още неказано. Дон Кихот положително нямаше да бъде същият, а навярно нямаше и да се появи, ако епохата, в която е било ... |
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