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Normand Charles: Neo-Classical Design (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: An elegant collection of neo-classical architectural and interior designs from vases, wall panels and candelabra. Dover Electronic Design series: permission-free illustrations and designs for art, craft, business and educational use. Hundreds of designs scanned at 600 dpi and saved in the most popular formats; can be used for Mac and Windows. Each set contains CD-ROM and book with every image on…

Austen Jane: Pride and Prejudice

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.

Negri: Great English Short stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Saki's «Tobermory» tells the tale of a talking cat who's conversation turns toward the scandalous remarks he's overheard. Additional selections include Hardy's «The Fiddler of the Reels,» Dickens' «The Haunted Hotel,» Trollope, «The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne,» Lawrence, «The Prussian Officer,» Kipling, «The Phantom Rickshaw,» Wells, «Under the Knife,» and others.»

Waldrep M.C.: Steampunk Sourcebook

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Combining futuristic technology and Victorian romance, the influence of the steampunk style extends from literature and film to art and fashion. This one-of-a-kind compilation from Dover's vast archives offers approximately 200 images that range from dirigibles and sea vessels to corsets and pocket watches. A gallery of original art completes the volume.

De Honnecourt Villard: The Medieval Sketchbook of Villard De Honnecourt

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Little may be known about Villard de Honnecourt, but thanks to his immortal Sketchbook, there exist reliable and contemporaneous graphic observations of everyday life in thirteenth century France. Contained in this volume are the entire contents of Honnecourt's portfolio, complete with authoritative translations of the artist's words, annotation, and editor's commentary.

Francis Yelena P.: Great Russian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century: A Dual-Language Book

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This dual-language anthology features more than a dozen, 20th-century tales translated into English for the first time. Contents include The Fugitive by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, The Present by Leonid Andreev, Trataton by D. Mamin-Sibiryak, and The Life Granted by Alexander Grin, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Alexander Kuprin, Arkady Gaidar, and others.

Negri Paul: Great Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — includes such popular tales as Kafka's A Country Doctor, Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings, plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.

Victorian Architectural Details: Designs for Over 700 Stairs, Mantels, Doors, Windows, Cornices, Porches, and Other Decorative Elements

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Originally published over 130 years ago by one of America's leading architectural firms, this volume provided prospective homeowners and other customers with a wide range of design alternatives. While the collection includes elevations and floor plans for a variety of handsome, private residences and commercial structures, the emphasis is on architectural details — from cornices, dormer windows…

Arthur Rackham: The Arthur Rackham Treasury

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The finest collection of art by one of the greatest English book illustrators. A stunning full-colour treasury of the finest illustrations by the famed English artist. Rackham's subjects ranged from fairy tales and children's stories to Wagner's operas. This superbly printed work includes more than 80 full-page plates that span his entire artistic output. The illustrations in this handsome volume…

Solomon Lefschetz: Algebraic Geometry

Скачать книгу (размер 1 182 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 233) Аннотация: An introduction to algebraic geometry and a bridge between its analytical-topological and algebraical aspects, this book explores fundamental concepts of the general theory of algebraic varieties: general point, dimension, function field, rational transformations, and correspondences as well as formal power series and an extensive survey of algebraic curves. 1953 edition.

Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does…

Ornamental Scrolls and Cartouches (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Fine selection of plates from rare catalog — advertising elegantly illustrated fiber wood carvings, moldings, and furniture trimmings — depict wood carvings, mouldings, and furniture trimmings. Includes 538 black-and-white illustrations of borders, garlands, and other decorative elements, ideal for use by artists, designers, woodworkers, and other craftspeople.

Shakespeare William: Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Includes 4 of the playwright's greatest works: Hamlet, featuring the drama world's most discussed and contentious character; Macbeth, concerning a Scots nobleman's overweening ambition; Othello, in which a gallant soldier is undone by jealousy; and Romeo and Juliet, the tale of the lovers whose names are synonymous with star-crossed romance.

Dehli Arne: Treasury of Byzantine Ornament: 255 Motifs from St Mark's and Ravenna

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Decorative architectural elements derived from delicate line drawings of 6th and 7th-century Italian buildings and churches depict a wealth of interior and exterior adornments. Includes images of perforated marble panels, intricately fashioned stone grilles and cornices, and elaborate stone mosaics for floors and ceilings. A multipurpose reference for students, artists, and designers.

Halfpenny Joseph: Gothic Ornament: Architectural Motifs from York Cathedral

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: These royalty-free motifs feature exquisite specimens of the sculptured ornaments from northern Europe's largest medieval cathedral. York Cathedral features soaring Gothic architecture and a vast interior, parts of which date back to the 13th century. Reproduced from a rare 18th-century volume, this compilation consists of 175 illustrations, selected from throughout the building.

Carol Belanger Grafton: 120 Great Paintings (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This rich color treasury of famous paintings by the world's greatest artists provides inspiring images for use in a number of projects. Superb reproductions of more than 100 masterpieces from 5 centuries are included -from works by Fra Angelico, Hieronymus Bosch, and Albrecht Dürer to Thomas Gainsborough, Winslow Homer, and Edward Hopper.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 107) Аннотация: Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encylopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld,…

Pogany Elaine: The Golden Cockerel: From the Original Russian Fairy Tale of Alexander Pushkin

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Elaine Pogany recounts a beloved Russian fairy tale of a king, a wizard, and a magic bird in charming prose that will delight readers of all ages. This classic also receives a stunning artistic treatment from one of the masters of book illustration, her husband Willy Pogany, whose color and black-and-white pictures adorn every page.

American Short Story Masterpieces

Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty.

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich: Five Great Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Incisive, masterfully written tales — set in Tsarist Russian milieux — reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes The Black Monk (1894), The House with the Mezzanine (1896), The Peasants (1897), Gooseberries (1898), and The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899).