Русские народные сказки, оформленные Иваном Яковлевичем Билибиным, – единственные в своём роде. Они создают неповторимо трогательную атмосферу волшебства, которая сопровождает нас с самого детства до глубокой зрелости. Для многих поколений читателей имя художника неразрывно связано с миром сказок, былин, с образами Древней Руси.
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Художник Йон Бауэр – самый знаменитый шведский «портретист» героев скандинавского фольклора. С особенной любовью он относился к хозяевам шведских гор и лесов – троллям. С 1907 по 1915 год он иллюстрировал альманах сказок «Среди эльфов и троллей», ежегодно выходящий в Швеции к Рождеству. Как первый художник этого популярного издания, Йон Бауэр приобрёл известность и за пределами родной страны, став классиком сказочной и мифологической иллюстрации ...
Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга – первая и пока единственная в своем роде. Она содержит подробный анализ крымских легенд с древнейших времен до наших дней. Книга адресована всем, кто интересуется культурой и фольклором Крыма – культурологам, этнографам, мифологам, фольклористам, религиоведам и социологам, преподавателям школ и ВУЗов. Она будет интересна самому широкому кругу читателей, потому что написана простым языком и затрагивает вопрос ...
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, dise ...
Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game meets Netflix’s The Christmas Prince , you will ADORE this fun and flirty romcom!Turquoise blue waters. Sandy white beaches. Mojitos…Film location scout Kenzie Cole has found herself in paradise. And working in the Caribbean for a week is just what she needs to escape the long line of exes in her closet.Though the last thing she expects is to be picked up at the resort bar by a disgraced former Prince!Luckily for K ...
Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game meets Netflix’s The Christmas Prince , you will ADORE this fun and flirty romcom!What happens in Vegas…Waking up to the bright lights of Vegas in an unfamiliar penthouse suite, cocktail waitress Phoenix Montgomery finds she’s covered from head to foot in gold glitter and not alone – aside from the empty bottle of champagne, there’s a mystery man in the shower and a huge sparkly ring on her finger!Stays in Vegas?The ...
‘A fairy-tale romance to warm even the coldest of hearts’ Chloe’s Chick Lit ReviewsSally Thorne’s The Hating Game meets Netflix’s The Christmas Prince , you will ADORE this fun and flirty romcom!Teresa Adler is the ultimate Ice Princess, with a heart as frozen as the winter landscape of her beloved home, Westerwald. All her life, she’s belonged to the ‘inner circle’ of wealth, privilege and position.Christian Taylor: Heartthrob. Movie Star. Bad ...
Betrothed…to the wrong man!Building a life away from her bullying family, schoolmistress Helen Tilney needs to convince her childhood sweetheart she’s a worthy bride. Standing in her way is Lord Hunter—the man Nell has just discovered she’s betrothed to!Hunter’s offer of marriage to Nell came out of guilt, and now seems less than appealing! So when she asks for his help to win another man he agrees. Until their lessons in flirtation inspire a ra ...
From wild and rugged Cornwall, the setting of Poldark and Jamaica Inn, comes another fabulous, dramatic story…NO MAN HAS EVER WANTED HER FOR HERSELFWhen she arrives at Beresford Abbey, orphan Mary Wilder’s hopes of finding a place to belong are dashed when she meets Bane Beresford, the enigmatic Earl. He is as remote as the ghosts that supposedly haunt the Abbey…and, like its crumbling walls, her dreams fall apart. Occasionally she sees a differ ...
