100 Bulgarian Folk Tales will give you one hundred reasons to love Bulgaria and its people. Broadly divided into six chapters, this book covers a wide range of the most common topics and characters, pertaining to Bulgarian folklore. Starting with the practical wisdom of everyday stories, the collection then dips into tales of magical adventures and encounters with supernatural creatures. Further, it will make you relax with witty sketches, sprinkled with local humour. Following the trail, you will gradually discover a closer and deeper bond to the life of our ancestors. The surviving legends of creation and shared ... |
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It is getting dark over the mountain lake; the passing winter freezes the quiet northern land. A little boy dressed in fur, girded with a sword decorated with a raven head, struggles with uneven terrain, mud, and unbearable load - the remains of his father - Edsgar, the mighty warrior of the Great North. A stream of white light splashes from the sky to the funeral pyre. A ringing sound fills everything around. It is as if billions of metal particles are sprinkled on a steel shield. Edsgar bids farewell to Erik, the lovely Valkyries take on the spirit of the warrior, and he flies with them to the gates of Valhalla to take ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features some of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to ... |
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Enola Holmes is on the run from the world's most famous detective - her brother Sherlock Holmes. As she roams the dark and dangerous streets of London disguised as a doctor's secretary called Miss Ivy Meshle, Enola is reminded more and more that her name backwards spells "alone". But when she finds a concealed cache of dazzling charcoal drawings, she feels drawn to the girl who drew them. Only, that girl, young Lady Cecily, has mysteriously vanished. It's up to Enola to find her, but false appearances can only last so long... Enola's adventures continue in this thrilling second instalment. ... |
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This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their "trick endings" or "twists in the tail": repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso&# ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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An explosive YA thriller, from the author of "Last One To Die". The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected based on academic excellence. So when a series of murders target the school's brightest and best, the pressure is on. Someone is determined to stop at nothing to clear their path to the top. But who is it? And can they be stopped? A high-school slasher with a lethal twist. Perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Holly Jackson and Gossip Girl. ... |
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A magical secret. A mythical hunt. And a love that could risk everything. In the dark, gothic town of Wickdon, Maggie Welty lives in an old creaking manor. Maggie's mother is an alchemist who has recently left town, leaving Maggie with just her bloodhound for company. But when Maggie spots a legendary ancient fox-creature on her porch, her fate is changed forever. Whoever tracks down and kills the hala in the Halfmoon Hunt will earn fame and riches - and if Maggie wins the hunt, she knows her mother will want to celebrate her. This is her chance to bring her home. But the rules state that only teams of two can join ... |
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Включва албумите: Tim Buckley - Tim Buckley Wildflowers - Judy Collins Tom Paxton - Ramblin' Boy John Prine - John Prine Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion ... |
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The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from № 1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood It Girl is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her ... |
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Платинената певица и текстописка Румър издаде четвъртия си албум "This Girl's In Love: A Bacharach And David Songbook". Записът съдържа някои от най-емблематичните продукции на Бърт Башарак и Хал Дейвид, и в комбинация с невероятния глас на британката Румър, се получава най-добрият ѝ албум досега. Записан в известното студио Capital Studios и с помощта на композитора Роб Ширакбари "This Girl's In Love" включва и самия Башарак на пиано. Някои от песните в "This Girl's In Love" са ни познати от миналия век. Румър и Ширакбари решават да ги премоделират и да предадат приятната ... |
