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21Tree and Leaf , J. R. R. Tolkien (2001)
Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairytales and fantasy and rescues the genre from… 839 руб22Bruegel , Hagen Rainer (2015)
Folk stories: An eye on everyday peasant life At a time when artists were still widely preoccupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder… 1028 руб23The Pilgrim&# 039;s Progress , Джон Беньян (1996)
John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the… 172 грн (только Украина)24The Pilgrim&# 039;s Progress , Джон Беньян (2013)
От издателя:HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. THE PILGRIM&# 039;S PROGRESS, John Bunyan&# 039;s masterful religious allegory… 76 грн (только Украина)25Doctor Faustus , Thomas Mann (2015)
"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." - The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture... Finely translated by John E. Woods." … 1144 руб26The Essential Kafka , Kafka Franz (2016)
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from… 349 руб27Georgics (2009)
'A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labour of his life. So he sustains his native land...'Virgil's affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more… 493 руб28The Graveyard Book , Gaiman N. (2008)
The Graveyard Book. In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene - a family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jack" … 595 руб29The Senility of Vladimir P , Майкл Хонинг (2016)
A biting satire of a particular despot and a deeply human allegory of the fragility of goodness and the contagion of unchecked power. Set twenty-odd years from now, it opens on Patient Number… 475 грн (только Украина)30The French Lieutenant's Woman , John Fowles (2004)
Of all John Fowles's novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim, and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the… 1146 грн (только Украина)
