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Scrisoarea Tat?lui meu
Scrisoarea Tat?lui meu
Alcaz
¥45.78
Cu-acelea?i sentimente, ?n schimb, ?i autorii,Dac? le cade piesa, sus?in ca-s pro?ti actorii.Al.O. (P?storel) Teodoreanu (1894-1964)din poezia "Speech"?nt?lnirea surpriz?, dup? 50 de ani, dintre doi fo?ti prieteni, redeschide o ran?, pe care o credeau ?nchis?. Aceast? reg?sire are loc ?ntr-un spital, unde cei doi sunt interna?i ?i obliga?i s? ?mpart? aceea?i camer?. Sentimentele se transform? ?n urma evenimentelor care au loc.S?rb?torirea celor 26 de ani scur?i de la fuga din Rom?nia la via?a ref?cut? ?n occident este tulburat? de r?t?cirea fiului lor de 17 ani, Chris, cel mai t?n?r din familie. Acesta devine sub influen?a unui imam, musulman, care dore?te s? lupte ?n a?a-zisul stat islamic.?Iubirea este un lucru foarte mare“ scria o feti?? ?n jurnalul ei intim. Dar, c?teodat?, ea este at?t de mare, ?nc?t inima devine cheia fericirii, din calea c?reia trebuie eliminat? orice piedic?. Elibereaz? crima, oare, orice obstacol?Pater noster, rug?ciunea noastr? cea de toate zilele, poate deveni, pentru un renumit scriitor, baza succeselor sale. Reunind al?turi de el pe cei doi fii ai s?i, el organizeaz? mai multe afaceri, care se dovedesc rentabile. Interviul luat de o redactoare de la televiziune confirm? aceste succese… care se dovedesc c? nu erau cele mai literare.
Vecinul
Vecinul
Gardner Lisa
¥66.22
Dup? Aurul spartanilor ?i Imperiul pierdut, so?ii Sam ?i Remi Fargo se ?ntorc ?ntr-o nou? aventur? extraordinar?.Mae?tri ai v?n?torilor de comori, Sam ?i Remi Fargo nu sunt deloc obi?nui?i cu v?n?toarea de oameni. Dar un baron texan al petrolului apeleaz? la ei cu o rug?minte personal?: un detectiv particular angajat s?-i g?seasc? tat?l disp?rut s-a pierdut f?r? urm? ?i el. Dat fiind c? detectivul le este prieten, ar fi dispu?i Sam ?i Remi s?-i caute pe am?ndoi? ?n ciuda suspiciunilor, cei doi accept? noua provocare, iar ceea ce vor descoperi va fi mai mult dec?t ?i-ar fi putut imagina. ?n c?l?toria care ?i poart? prin Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India ?i China, Sam ?i Remi Fargo se trezesc implica?i ?n traficul cu fosile de pe pia?a neagr?, descoper? un cuf?r vechi de secole, un regat tibetan disp?rut, un dirijabil inventat cu secole ?naintea vremii sale… ?i un schelet care ar putea transforma complet ?ntreaga istorie a evolu?iei umane.Plin de imagina?ie ?i cu un suspans care-?i taie r?suflarea, Regatul dovede?te ?nc? o dat? de ce Clive Cussler este considerat ?unul dintre cei mai buni autori contemporani de thriller“. – New York PostRomanele lui Cussler sunt publicate ?n peste 40 de limbi, ?n mai bine de o sut? de ??ri ale lumii.
Exploratorii. Cartea a II a - Lacul Marelui Urs
Exploratorii. Cartea a II a - Lacul Marelui Urs
Erin Hunter
¥65.32
N?scut ?ntr-o clopotni??, ?ntr-un sat din Alpii Elve?ieni, Moses, fiul unei s?rmane surdo-mute este ?nzestrat cu un auz remarcabil ?i cu o voce la fel de limpede precum sunetul uria?elor clopote sub care a v?zut lumina zilei. Sunetele ?i vor fi harta cea mai de ?ncredere pe parcursul vie?ii sale marcate de muzic?, la ?nceput ?n corul unei m?n?stiri ?i, ?n cele din urm?, pe scenele celor mai de seama teatre din Viena ?i din Vene?ia. Binecuv?ntare, dar ?i blestem, vocea sa angelic? este vocea unui musico, castrat ?mpotriva propriei voin?e, pentru a-i p?stra puritatea ?i limpezimea. Moses ??i va tr?i iubirea pentru o t?n?r? nobil? din Sankt Gallen cu intensitate fidel? ?i tragism, p?n? la cap?t, asemenea lui Orfeu, ?n opera cu care ??i face nea?teptat debutul pe scena, la premiera dirijat? de celebrul Gluck.Adev?ruri sf??ietoare, frumuse?e, arta, ur?, conspira?ii, z?mbete printre lacrimi ?i mai ales sunete care s? exprime emo?ii ?ntr-un limbaj universal… romanul lui Harvell ?nf??i?eaz? o poveste str?lucitoare ?i grav?, c? b?taia ?n amurg a marelui Pummerin, din Catedrala Sf?ntul ?tefan.Roman publicat ?n 12 ??ri.
Ultima vrajitoare din Transilvania - Vol. 1: Contesa Aneke
Ultima vrajitoare din Transilvania - Vol. 1: Contesa Aneke
Cristina Nemerovschi
¥73.49
Romanul Raucho istorise?te povestea t?n?rului cu acela?i nume. Raucho cre?te ?n pampas, admir?ndu?i pe gauchos ?i n?zuind s? ?mp?rt??easc? via?a lor dur? ?i pitoreasc?. Este un copil rebel, c?ruia nu?i place ?coala, dar care descoper? mai t?rziu pl?cerea lecturii ?i ?ncepe s? viseze la Paris, ca to?i tinerii din vremea sa. Fascina?ia este irezistibil? ?i ?n cele din urm? ??i convinge tat?l s??l lase s? plece. Raucho are inima ?mp?r?it? ?ntre dou? pasiuni: pe de o parte ??i dore?te s? duc? o via?? de gaucho ?n mijlocul naturii, iar pe de alt? parte ar vrea s? fie un b?rbat la mod? ?n capitala Fran?ei, cufund?ndu?se ?n vicii care umplu nop?ile albe. ?n pampas viseaz? la Paris, iar la Paris duce dorul meleagurilor natale. Femeile pe care le cunoa?te fac s??i fie ?i mai greu s? ia o hot?r?re.
Umbra nop?ii
Umbra nop?ii
Cremer Andrea
¥66.22
O noapte ploioas?, ?n Londra. Un ritual de ini?iere din cadrul unei bande se sf?r?e?te cu focuri de arm? ?ntr-o ma?in? care vireaz? brusc pe trotuar ?i plonjeaz? ?ntr-o sta?ie de autobuz. Totul duce la moartea unei victime nevinovate. Dar realitatea este mult mai teribil?…O via?? este distrus? ?i alte trei sunt marcate pentru totdeauna: a t?n?rului care a ap?sat pe tr?gaci, a unui b?tr?n gangster care pl?nuia o r?zbunare mortal? ?i a femeii ?ns?rcinate care se lupt? cu disperare s? descopere adev?rul. Cum se va descurca ea, cu numai dou? s?pt?m?ni ?nainte de a na?te, ?ntr-o lume ?n care moartea este un risc profesional??ntr-un ora? ?n care violen?a poate fi ?nt?mpl?toare sau meticulos planificat?, ?n care bandele de adolescen?i intr? ?n conflict cu cele ale infractorilor de carier? ?i ?n care loialitatea se pl?te?te cu s?nge, orice este posibil.
Basica Lumii si a ne'Lumii
Basica Lumii si a ne'Lumii
Flavius Ardelean
¥81.67
Aventura lui Arn Magnusson continu?. Al doilea volum al Trilogiei Cruciadelor este o combina?ie incitant? ?ntre adev?r istoric ?i fic?iune, ?ntre riscurile misiunii unui b?rbat ?i peniten?a unei femei, r?scump?r?nd am?ndoi acela?i p?cat. Un amestec de ur? politic? ?i religioas?, pe de o parte, ?i prietenie n?scut? din recuno?tin??, pe de alt? parte.
Jurnal de librar
Jurnal de librar
Anca Zaharia
¥57.14
T?n?rul austriac Oskar Voxlauer ?ncearc? s? scape de ororile r?zboiului. ?n Primul R?zboi Mondial dezerteaz?. Dup? nou?sprezece ani petrecu?i ?n Ucraina, se ?ntoarce acas?, dar nimere?te ?n plin? ascensiune a nazi?tilor, iar r?zboiul ?l ajunge din urm?. Nici ?n p?dure nu poate sc?pa, nici iubirea nu este un refugiu posibil.
Disparitia din Silver Water
Disparitia din Silver Water
Haylen Beck
¥65.32
Autorul bestsellerurilor interna?ionale CAP?TUL CERCULUI ?i PAZNICII LEG?M?NTULUI ?n 1970, Silvana, fiica lui Giovanni Nobile, profesor de teologie la Vatican, este r?pit? din ordinul unei secte religioase ?i ?ncuiat? ?ntr-un sicriu. Dac? Nobile nu le pred? un pergament vechi de mii de ani, numit Manuscrisul lui Lucifer, r?pitorii amenin?? c? o vor l?sa pe Silvana ?n co?ciug p?n? la moarte. Patruzeci de ani mai t?rziu, arheologul Bj?rn Belt? descoper? ceea ce pare s? fie un fragment din misteriosul manuscris ?i se treze?te din nou ?inta unor atacuri inexplicabile. Singura cale de a sc?pa de urm?ritori este s? dezlege taina manuscrisului ?i s? aduc? la lumin? un secret uluitor, p?zit cu str??nicie de mai bine de patru milenii. ?Scriu c?r?ile pe care mi-ar pl?cea s? le citesc – c?r?i care m? intrig?, m? entuziasmeaz?, m? provoac?, m? ?nva?? lucruri noi, dar ?i c?r?i care m? sperie...“ Tom Egeland ?Manuscrisele str?vechi, miturile din jurul lor ?i impactul pe care l-au avut asupra omenirii ar p?rea de interes numai pentru erudi?i, dar ?n m?inile lui Egeland iau foc ca praful de pu?c?.“ Dagsavisen ?Romanul creeaz? suspans nu numai la suprafa?a evenimentelor, ci ?i ?n ad?ncime, prin viziunea tulbur?toare pe care o propune asupra ?ngerilor, a demonilor, a lui Dumnezeu ?i a Satanei.“ Aftenposten
Dear Darlin'. Namor
Dear Darlin'. Namor
Mihnea Rudoiu
¥32.62
E la mijloc un mister negru. erpuitor. Cu femei puternice, regsindu-se n albia nopilor. Cu brbai pierdui n hiurile existenei. Cu adolesceni care asist gur-casc la felul n care morii dau buzna n existena de zi cu zi. Sunt pagini dense, pe mari poriuni memorabile, de un erotism subtil, nvalnic, mpuns de botul fraged al morii care-este-pretutindeni. Madeleine Davidsohn are lejeritatea i familiaritatea lucrurilor artate la lumina zilei de creatorii obiectelor artizanale, confecionate cu o art motenit din tat n fiu, ce-i transmit reciproc secretele meseriei, trucurile tiute exclusiv de membrii clanului de meseriai.“ – Aura Christi
Regulile creierului
Regulile creierului
John Medina
¥65.32
Un nou bestseller interna?ional de la creatorii seriei ?Pisicile r?zboinice” Lumea nu va mai fi niciodat? la fel dup? Marele M?r?it - a?a s-ar numi un cutremur devastator v?zut prin ochii unui c??el. P?m?ntul s-a despicat pe de-a ?ntregul ?i au disp?rut toate labele-lungi – a?a s-ar numi semin?ia omeneasc? prin ochii aceluia?i c??el. Hrana a devenit aproape imposibil de g?sit, apa este otr?vit?, iar du?manii mi?un? la tot pasul. ?n aceast? situa?ie, c?inii se v?d nevoi?i s? deprind? toate aptitudinile unor supravie?uitori. A venit vremea lor s? domine lumea. Norocel, un C?ine Singuratic obi?nuit s? tr?iasc? pe cont propriu, s-a integrat ?n Haita C?inilor Lega?i pentru a face fa?? condi?iilor dure de via?? de dup? Marele M?r?it. C?nd un atac puternic ?i pune ?n pericol nu numai pe C?inii Lega?i, ci ?i pe inamicii lor, C?inii S?lbatici, Norocel ??i d? seama c? singura lor ?ans? de supravie?uire este s? se uneasc?. Tocmai aceast? decizie ?i va provoca probleme, iar ?n cele din urm? va fi alungat din haita unit?. Cartea a IV-a prilejuie?te ?mp?carea dintre Norocel ?i Alfa, conduc?torul Haitei S?lbatice. Dar ?ntre ei r?m?ne ?n continuare o tensiune mocnit?: Alfa las? de ?n?eles c? nu va fi niciodat? dispus s? accepte compania anumitor c?ini. Haita recent unit? se afl? ?n c?utarea unui nou c?min, c?t mai ?ndep?rtat de Tab?ra C?inilor Fioro?i. C?inii descoper? treptat c? niciun teritoriu nu este complet lipsit de pericole. Atunci c?nd ?nt?lnesc un alt grup de c?ini care a supravie?uit Marelui M?r?it, Norocel sper? ca cele dou? haite s? se alieze. ?ns?, aceast? nou? Hait?, condus? de Teroare, laba dreapt? a C?inelui-Spaim?, s-ar putea s? se transforme ?n cel mai periculos inamic pe care l-au ?nt?lnit vreodat?... ?O carte plin? de ?nt?mpl?ri palpitante ?i minunate.“ - Kirkus Reviews ?Tinerii cititori vor g?si o mul?ime de lucruri fascinante ?n aceast? carte de aventuri, de la intriga palpitant? p?n? la caracteriz?rile fiec?rui c??el ?n parte. O lectur? ideal? pentru fanii ?Pisicilor r?zboinice?.” – Booklist ?S? vezi lumea prin ochii unui c??el ??i poate schimba viziunea asupra vie?ii. Ac?iunea ?i pericolul ?i vor ?ine pe cititori ?n suspans, iar finalul pe muchie de cu?it ?i va determina s? deschid? ner?bd?tori urm?toarea carte din serie.” - Jennifer Rummel, VOYA Din aceea?i serie: Supravie?uitorii. Cartea I - Ora?ul pustiu Supravie?uitorii. Cartea a II-a - Du?manul ascuns Supravie?uitorii. Cartea a III-a – C?derea ?ntunericului
Cuv?ntul care st? s? m? nasc?. The word poised to birth me
Cuv?ntul care st? s? m? nasc?. The word poised to birth me
Lazu Lidia
¥24.44
Hamburger cu m?m?lig? este un pamflet cinic ?i incisiv care descrie fidel ?i realist dou? popoare: rom?n ?i american. Le descrie nu din auzite, nu din ziare ?i nu din vizionarea programelor de televiziune, ci din experien?a autorului. O carte acid? care condamn? prostia, arogan?a ?i incultura ?elitei“ societ??ii rom?ne?ti de ast?zi, dar ?i prostia americanilor care habar nu au unde se afl? Rom?nia ?i poporul ei. O carte care dezv?luie f?r? rezerve ?i f?r? ascunzi?uri adev?rata fa?? a societ??ii rom?ne?ti contemporane. O carte ?n care personajele principale sunt politicienii, protipendada, ?baronii locali“, potenta?ii vremii, biserica, media aservit? politic ?i cea declarativ ?liber? ?i independent?“, trafican?ii ajun?i vedete. O carte despre cum suntem noi cu adev?rat ?i despre cum sunt americanii de fapt. Ve?i citi o carte r?z?nd ?n hohote, dar ?i pl?ng?nd cu lacrimi amare. Ve?i citi ?i ve?i cunoa?te adev?rul. Iar adev?rul v? va face liberi! Pentru c? un popor care nu mai r?de este condamnat s? fie ve?nic sclavul celor care ??i bat joc de el. Revolta?i-v? ?i r?de?i! ?i v? ve?i sim?i liberi!...
Pen Drawing: "An Illustrated Treatise"
Pen Drawing: "An Illustrated Treatise"
Charles D. Maginnis
¥18.74
The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey in Victorian England, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator.In the new narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that takes him to A.D. 802,701, where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, childlike adults. They live in small communities within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing no work and having a frugivorous diet. His efforts to communicate with them are hampered by their lack of curiosity or discipline, and he speculates that they are a peaceful communist society, the result of humanity conquering nature with technology, and subsequently evolving to adapt to an environment in which strength and intellect are no longer advantageous to survival. Returning to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find his time machine missing, and eventually works out that it has been dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy doors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. Later in the dark, he is approached menacingly by the Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Within their dwellings he discovers the machinery and industry that makes the above-ground paradise possible. He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes have become the brutish light-fearing Morlocks. Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine, he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that they feed on the Eloi. His revised analysis is that their relationship is not one of lords and servants but of livestock and ranchers. The Time Traveller theorizes that intelligence is the result of and response to danger; with no real challenges facing the Eloi, they have lost the spirit, intelligence, and physical fitness of humanity at its peak. Meanwhile, he saves an Eloi named Weena from drowning as none of the other Eloi take any notice of her plight, and they develop an innocently affectionate relationship over the course of several days. He takes Weena with him on an expedition to a distant structure that turns out to be the remains of a museum, where he finds a fresh supply of matches and fashions a crude weapon against Morlocks, whom he fears he must fight to get back his machine. He plans to take Weena back to his own time. Because the long and tiring journey back to Weena's home is too much for them, they stop in the forest, and they are then overcome by Morlocks in the night, and Weena faints. The Traveller escapes only when a small fire he had left behind them to distract the Morlocks catches up to them as a forest fire; Weena is presumably lost in the fire, as are the Morlocks. The Morlocks use the time machine as bait to ensnare the Traveller, not understanding that he will use it to escape. He travels further ahead to roughly 30 million years from his own time. There he sees some of the last living things on a dying Earth, menacing reddish crab-like creatures slowly wandering the blood-red beaches chasing butterflies in a world covered in simple lichenous vegetation. He continues to make short jumps through time, seeing Earth's rotation gradually cease and the sun grow larger, redder, and dimmer, and the world falling silent and freezing as the last degenerate living things die out.
Prodigal Village: "A Christmas Tale"
Prodigal Village: "A Christmas Tale"
Irving Bacheller
¥18.74
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (4 May), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. Short Summary: Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty")—the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, "Jabberwocky", whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror. She also observes that the chess pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up. Upon leaving the house (where it had been a cold, snowy night), she enters a sunny spring garden where the flowers have the power of human speech; they perceive Alice as being a "flower that can move about." Elsewhere in the garden, Alice meets the Red Queen, who is now human-sized, and who impresses Alice with her ability to run at breathtaking speeds. This is a reference to the chess rule that queens are able to move any number of vacant squares at once, in any direction, which makes them the most "agile" of pieces. The Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. This is a reference to the chess rule of Promotion. Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, thus acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.
Rubens: "Masterpieces in Colour" Series: Book-IV
Rubens: "Masterpieces in Colour" Series: Book-IV
Samuel Levy Bensusan
¥28.04
In “True Ghost Stories,” Mr. Carrington presents a number of startling cases of this character; but they are not the ordinary “ghost stories”—based on pure fiction, and having no foundation in reality. Here we have a well-arranged collection of incidents, all thoroughly investigated and vouched for, and the testimony obtained first-hand and corroborated by others. The chapter on “Haunted Houses” is particularly striking. The first chapter deals with the interesting question, “What is a Ghost?” and attempts to answer this question in the light of the latest scientific theories which have been advanced to explain these supernatural happenings and visitants. It is a book of absorbing interest, and cannot fail to grip and hold the attention of every reader—no matter whether he be a student of these questions, or one merely in search of hair-raising anecdotes and stories. He will find them here a-plenty! The following little book endeavors to bring together a number of “ghost stories” of the more startling and dramatic type,—but stories, nevertheless, which seem to be well authenticated; and which have been obtained, in most instances, at first hand, from the original witnesses; and often contain corroborative testimony from others who also experienced the ghostly phenomena. Some of these incidents, indeed, rise to the dignity of scientific evidence; others are less well authenticated cases,—but interesting for all that. These have been grouped in various Chapters, according to their evidential value. Chapters II. and III. contain well-evidenced cases, some of which have been taken from the Proceedings and Journals of the Society for Psychical Research (S. P. R.), or from Phantasms of the Living, or from other scientific books, in which narratives of this character receive serious consideration. Chapter V., on the contrary, contains a number of incidents which,—striking and dramatic as they are,—cannot be included in the two earlier Chapters, as presenting real evidence of Ghosts; but are published rather as startling and interesting ghost stories. Chapter IV., devoted to “Haunted Houses,” contains brief accounts of the most famous Haunted Houses, and of the phenomena which have been witnessed within them. Appendix A gives a list of a few of the important “Historical Ghosts,” Appendix B describes the “Phantom Armies” lately seen by the Allied troops in France—while Appendix C lists a number of books of Ghost Stories which the interested reader may care to peruse. A short Glossary, at the beginning of the book, explains the meaning of certain terms used,—which are not, perhaps, ordinarily met with in books of this character. In the Introductory Chapter, I have endeavored to explain, very briefly, the nature and character of Ghosts; what they are; and the various scientific theories which have been brought forward, of late years, to explain Ghosts. I hope that this may prove of interest to the reader; in case it does not do so, he is invited to “skip” directly to Chapter II., which begins our account of “True Ghost Stories.” I wish to express my thanks in this place to the Council of the English S. P. R. for special permission to quote and to summarize several striking cases here reproduced; also to Miss Estelle Stead, for permission to utilize several cases previously printed at length in Mr. Wm. T. Stead’s collections of Ghost Stories. H. C. [Author]
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H. Rider Haggard
¥18.74
The War of the Worlds is a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The narrator, a philosophically-inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to southern England. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events in the capital and escapes the Martians by boarding a ship near Tillingham, on the Essex coast. The plot has been related to invasion literature of the time. The novel has been variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory, British Imperialism, and generally Victorian superstitions, fears and prejudices. At the time of publication it was classified as a scientific romance, like his earlier novel The Time Machine. The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never gone out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It has even influenced the work of scientists, notably Robert Hutchings Goddard. Plot SummaryYet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.— H. G. Wells (1898), The War of the Worlds The Coming of the MartiansThe narrative opens in an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw where explosions are seen on the surface of the planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community. Later a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common, near the narrator's home in Woking, Surrey. He is among the first to discover that the object is an artificial cylinder that opens, disgorging Martians who are "big" and "greyish" with "oily brown skin," "the size, perhaps, of a bear," with "two large dark-coloured eyes," and a lipless "V-shaped mouth" surrounded by "Gorgon groups of tentacles." The narrator finds them "at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous." They briefly emerge, have difficulty in coping with the Earth's atmosphere, and rapidly retreat into the cylinder. A human deputation (which includes the astronomer Ogilvy) approaches the cylinder with a white flag, but the Martians incinerate them and others nearby with a heat-ray before beginning to assemble their machinery. Military forces arrive that night to surround the common, including Maxim guns. The population of Woking and the surrounding villages are reassured by the presence of the military. A tense day begins, with much anticipation of military action by the narrator.
Воздушные блинчики, оладьи, вафли.
Воздушные блинчики, оладьи, вафли.
Ivchenko Zorjana
¥17.99
Кра?на, яку залишили ?? творц?, винах?дники та мислител?, приречена на в?йну, голод ? смерть. Владу захоплюють нев?гласи, корупц?онери й мародери. ?стор?я трива? бодай тому, що одна вольова ж?нка на ?м’я Да?н? Та??арт переконана, що досконалий св?т справжн?х ц?нностей ?сну?. Вона намага?ться зламати сценар?й неминучо? катастрофи. ?? Атлантида не м?ф. У св?т? ще ? см?ливц?, спроможн? створити сусп?льний лад, де нема? конфл?кт?в, не виника? потреби в самопожертв?, жодна людина не становить загрози для мети ?нших. Бунт?вн? атланти знають, що розум таки переможе. Риторичне питання, хто такий Джон ?олт, насправд? ма? в?дпов?дь, а неймов?рн? ?де? — сво? вт?лення, яке проголомшу? людську уяву. В останн?й частин? свого фундаментального роману ?дей Айн Ренд змальову? ц?л?сну ф?лософську систему, яка дос? виклика? палк? дискус??, де в?д захвату до обурення — один крок.
Spiders
Spiders
Cecil Warburton
¥18.74
This book is called The White Spark as the white spark or vacuum cell in Nature IS THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD—it is a ubiquitous principle of the universe and is the cause and parent of electricity, combustion, radium, snow-flakes, flowers, trees, leaves, crystallization, wireless telegraphy, animal forms and EVEN LIFE ITSELF. This book is the key to every department of human endeavor, as it enunciates the basic principle and THE PRIME MOVER of the universe.?It tells the road to health, the cause and cure of disease, the truth about the germ humbug and drug treatments, serums and antitoxins. It shows why luminosity is produced on the flesh of various organisms, why a slice of pollock when first iced, then heated to 100 degrees and then thrust into a temperature of 50 degrees becomes luminous. It shows the farmer that he can become a magician of agriculture—tells that the nitrogen of the air is only a dust of quartz rocks, like the invisible moisture of the air is "a dust of water"—that the nodules on the roots of the clover and legumes do not abstract nitrogen from the air, for if they did nature would have placed these bacteriological growths on the vine and not the root, the scientists have the cart before the horse in this case and the nodular cells form the proteids from sand or silica, this book tells how it is done. It tells what a trance is and how the soul can leave the body temporarily. How JESUS CHRIST is carrying out the biblical prophesy by TELEPATHY. Gives the truths about the ideal society, alcohol, drunkenness, causes of crime, longevity and law.
Плетем из газет, бумаги, картона (Pletem iz gazet, bumagi, kartona)
Плетем из газет, бумаги, картона (Pletem iz gazet, bumagi, kartona)
Popovich Natalja
¥17.74
Rū?ītis ?ī skaistā pasaka ir mazā elfa dzīves stāsts. Vi?? mitinājās bagāta tirgotāja mājā un vienmēr bija pārticis.? ?ajā mājā dzīvoja arī kāds trūcīgs students, kur? bie?i cieta badu, jo visu naudu tērēja grāmatām. Kādu dienu Rū?ītis ieskatījās studenta istabi?ā pa atslēgas caurumu. Ko vi?? tur ieraudzīja? Kas notika tālāk? Lasiet pa?i! ?ajā burvju pasakā ir daudzas svarīgas patiesības un morāles vērtības. Tās saturs, noska?a un krāsainās ilustrācijas noteikti iepriecinās visus bērnus
Лечение радикулита и ревматизма народными средствами
Лечение радикулита и ревматизма народными средствами
Popovich Natalja
¥8.91
Das Buch enth?lt drei wundersch?ne M?rchen. ?Die Hirtin und der Schornsteinfeger“ ist eine fr?hliche Geschichte über Porzellanfiguren, die eine alte Kommode bewohnen. ?Das kleine M?dchen mit den Schwefelh?lzern“ ist eine traurige Erz?hlung über ein M?dchen, das Streichh?lzer am Heiligabend verkaufen muss. “Fünf aus einer Schote“ ist eine rührende Geschichte über ein krankes M?dchen, in dessen Leben unerwartet ein kleines Erbsenkorn auftaucht. Alle Erz?hlungen sind sch?n und farbig illustriert. Die Hirtin und der Schornsteinfeger Die Helden des M?rchens sind Porzellanfiguren: eine Hirtin, ein Schornsteinfeger und ein alter? Chinese, der will, dass die hübsche Hirtin einen geschnitzten Feldwebel heiratet. Das M?dchen ist damit nicht einverstanden, weil sein kleines Herz schon lange für den?? Schornsteinfeger schl?gt. Was passiert weiter?? Das k?nnt ihr hier erfahren. Die Erz?hlung ist sch?n und farbig illustriert. Das kleine M?dchen mit den Schwefelh?lzern Dies ist eines der berühmtesten M?rchen,? das jedes Kind lesen sollte. Es ist eine berührende? Geschichte über? ein armes M?dchen, das? an einem kalten Heiligabend versucht Schwefelh?lzer an die? Passanten zu verkaufen. Was wird mit dem M?dchen weiter geschehen? Ihr k?nnt es hier lesen. Die Erz?hlung ist sch?n und farbig illustriert. Fünf aus einer Schote Es ist eine Erz?hlung über eine kleine Erbse, die durch einen Spalt im Dachgeschoss in eine Wohnung reinf?llt. Dort lebt eine Frau mit ihrer kleinen Tochter, Karolina. Das M?dchen ist? schwer krank und kann seit langem? sein Bett nicht verlassen. Karolina beobachtet mit Neugier die Pflanze, die aus dem Korn w?chst. Was passiert im Leben des M?dchens?? Lest weiter!? Die Erz?hlung ist sch?n und farbig illustriert.?
Улучшаем зрение народными средствами
Улучшаем зрение народными средствами
Popovich Natalja
¥8.91
Die Hirtin und der Schornsteinfeger Die Helden des M?rchens sind Porzellanfiguren: eine Hirtin, ein Schornsteinfeger und ein alter? Chinese, der will, dass die hübsche Hirtin einen geschnitzten Feldwebel heiratet. Das M?dchen ist damit nicht einverstanden, weil sein kleines Herz schon lange für den?? Schornsteinfeger schl?gt. Was passiert weiter?? Das k?nnt ihr hier erfahren. Die Erz?hlung ist sch?n und farbig illustriert.
War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
¥23.30
The Wizard was written in the year 1896 by Henry Rider Haggard. This book is one of the most popular novels of Henry Rider Haggard, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.