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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Книгата е част от колекция "Върхове" на издателство "Изток - Запад". ... "Всеки знае името на английския корабопритежател, индустриалеца Кунард, който през 1840 г. основа пощенска служба между Ливърпул и Халифакс с три дървени кораба с колела, с мощност 400 конски сили и с вместимост 1162 тона всеки един. След осем години имуществото на дружеството се бе увеличило с още четири кораба по 650 конски сили и 1820 тона, а две години по-късно - с други два, по-мощни и по-големи по тонаж. През 1853 г. дружеството "Кунард", което току-що бе подновило правото за превоз на пощата, увеличи ... |
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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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The worldwide bestseller. ... "Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance..." From the book This popular paperback edition of the classic work of fantasy, with a striking new black cover based on J. R. R. Tolkien 's own design and featuring brand new reproductions of all his drawings and maps. The prelude to "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit& ... |
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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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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly ... |
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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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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Oliver Francis. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. ... |
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"Двадесет години по-късно" е продължението на романа "Тримата мускетари" от Александър Дюма - баща. ... "Двадесет години по-късно" е публикуван е за пръв път през 1845 г. В него са развити характерите на главните герои от първата част на трилогията, които сега са разделени от политическите си убеждения - докато Атос и Арамис подкрепят каузата на принцовете, Д’Артанян и Портос са на страната на Мазарини. Въпреки това неразделните приятели отново се събират и оказват помощ на английския крал Чарлз I. Появяват се и нови герои като Раул (виконт дьо Бражелон), синът на Атос. Действието се развива ... |
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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. ... 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 ... |
