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Àííîòàöèÿ: Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?' No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature.Here you will find seventy-five of the greatest works of western literature — from Beowulf to Bronte, from Kafka to Kerouac, and from Dostoevsky to Dickens— each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest essence. Including a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, Twitterature provides everything you need to master the literature of the civilised world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???From Dante's Inferno: I'm havin a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.From Paradise Lost: OH MY GOD I'M IN HELL.'The classics are so last century' Guardian

Àííîòàöèÿ: An A-Z of ELT is a practical and informative guide which is indispensible to teachers and teacher traniners of all levels of experience. The entries provide summaries of the major issues in ELT as well as their practical implications. New teachers can check the meanings of new terms whilst experienced teachers will gain a more wide-ranging understanding of topics of interest.

Àííîòàöèÿ: This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M. R. James, alongside that of anonymous authors from Britain to America. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the bro ...

Àííîòàöèÿ: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F.Scott Fitzgerald.

Àííîòàöèÿ: This hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for artists to keep handy and reference often. The stylish design of this book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, and provides useful tips for more advanced readers. With its great flexibility, acrylic paint can mimic the appearance of oils, tempera, and watercolors in unique ways, each method pictured in a separate step-by-step demonstration. The author also examines the use of acrylics with airbrush, sculptural, and printing techniques-even three-dimensional relief painting and collagraphy printing methods are included-and how several of these different creative processes can be integrated successfully in one composition with ink, pencil, charcoal, and pastel. Inspiring examples of representational and abstract subjects are depicted throughout, and a complete survey of all the latest acrylic materials covers the best paint brands, painting mediums, supports, varnishes, brushes, knives, and palettes

Àííîòàöèÿ: In the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper's historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgerald—s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations

Àííîòàöèÿ: ...it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible, allures with irresistible enchantment. - Chaucer Burr, Memoir, 1850. The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories is a superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre, many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of the supernatural

Àííîòàöèÿ: Batgirl's first encounter with the Dynamic Duo! It's hard enough being a vigilante in Gotham when your father's the police commissioner ? and it's even tougher when Batman and Robin are standing in your way! Sparks fly...and what will happen when Killer Moth is drawn to the flame?

Àííîòàöèÿ: Published a mere 13 days after the death of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered is best appreciated as a valentine of devoted friendship. It's a moving study of mutual trust and admiration between Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg and legendary Hollywood icon Hepburn, who'd established an instant rapport in 1983, beginning a 20-year conversation that blossomed into this enchanting "biographical memoir." As a casual but authoritative survey of Hepburn's career, Berg's book offers little new information to anyone who's read previous Hepburn biographies or Me: Stories of My Life, Hepburn's bestselling 1991 memoir. But the duality of Berg's title reinforces his purpose: "More than my remembrances," writes Berg in his author's note, "this book intends to convey hers." As such, Kate Remembered offers a rare, unvarnished portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential women, achieving a personal intimacy while making the reader feel welcomed in Hepburn's private world of privilege.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Õðåñòîìàòèÿ ñîäåðæèò îòðûâêè èç ïðîèçâåäåíèé àíãëèéñêèõ è àìåðèêàíñêèõ ïèñàòåëåé ñ äðåâíåéøèõ âðåìåí äî íàøèõ äíåé.  íåé äàíû òàêæå áèîãðàôèè ïèñàòåëåé, ïðèâîäÿòñÿ êðàòêèå ñîäåðæàíèÿ èõ ñàìûõ èçâåñòíûõ è ïîïóëÿðíûõ ïðîèçâåäåíèé. Êðîìå òðàäèöèîííîãî ïåðå÷íÿ àíãëîÿçû÷íûõ àâòîðîâ â õðåñòîìàòèè ïðåäñòàâëåíû òàêèå ïèñàòåëè, êàê Ëîðåíñ Ñòåðí, Ãåíðè Äæåéìñ, Äæåðîì Ê. Äæåðîì, Àðòóð Êîíàí Äîéë, Î. Ãåíðè, Ðè÷àðä Áàõ, Äæîàí Ðîóëèíã è ìíîãèå äðóãèå, ÷üå òâîð÷åñòâî íå îñâåùàëîñü ðàíåå â ïîäîáíûõ ó÷åáíûõ ïîñîáèÿõ.  êîíöå êàæäîãî ðàçäåëà êíèãè ñîäåðæàòñÿ êîíòðîëüíûå âîïðîñû è çàäàíèÿ, ìíîãèå èç êîòîðûõ âûïîëíåíû â ôîðìàòå ÅÃÝ. Äëÿ ó÷àùèõñÿ ñðåäíèõ øêîë, ëèöååâ, ãèìíàçèé, ñòóäåíòîâ ãóìàíèòàðíûõ âóçîâ, ïðåïîäàâàòåëåé, à òàêæå äëÿ âñåõ èíòåðåñóþùèõñÿ àíãëîÿçû÷íîé ëèòåðàòóðîé.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Grifter, Spartan, Voodoo... Les Wildcats, don't le groupe a ete dissous apres la mort de Zealot, se sont separes. Pourtant, ils sont toujours actifs, aux quatre coins du globe...

Àííîòàöèÿ: Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Bartleby by Herman Melville, To Build a Fire by Jack London, Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Killers by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others

Àííîòàöèÿ: Anybody who is anybody wants to be seen at the glittering parties at Gatsby`s manion near New York City. But behind the glamorous facade lie mystery and tragedy. This masterpiece by F. Scott Fitzgerald was also made into a stylish film starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics, the sequel to his groundbreaking work Understanding Comics, is a study of two revolutions: a failed one and a potential one. His 1993 book was not only a chronicle of the potential breakthrough of comics (which he redefined as "sequential art") into a legitimate art form but a sterling example itself of the medium's astonishing untapped potential. Now, seven years later, he chronicles the failure of the comic book industry to fulfill that promise, but also explores how the movement can be restarted, particularly by utilizing the resources of another spectacularly successful revolution, the Internet. In the first half of Reinventing Comics, an elegantly clean example of comic art in McCloud's trademark bold black-and-white style, the author outlines how hype, speculation, and artistic burnout led to the genre's decline. He then lays out 12 paths toward a new revolution of comics, including creators' rights, industry innovation, public perception, gender balance, and diversity of genre, which are then explored with such innovative intelligence that, as with his earlier work, the conclusions he comes to are fascinating for both artists and nonartists alike.Three of his paths, however, are of particular interest to anyone who wants to know how the Internet will affect both our lives and the livelihoods of future artists. Understanding Comics, with its brilliant how-to guide on marrying image and language, has become an indispensable reference for many Web designers. Now McCloud returns the favor by focusing on how the digital revolution will influence production, delivery, and the art form of comics itself. Informative without being pedantic, controversial without being argumentative, and always entertaining, this is both a worthy sequel to the author's brilliant original and a work that opens up the potential for an entirely different direction for sequential art in the realm of cyberspace. --John Longenbaug

Àííîòàöèÿ: Àéâàíà âñïîìèíàåò âñå, ÷òî ïðîèçîøëî ñ íåé ñ òåõ ïîð, êàê îíà âçÿëàñü çà ïðîåêò "Ãåíåçèñ" è ñîîáùàåò Áîáó, ÷òî â ðÿäàõ Â.Î. åñòü ïðåäàòåëü. Ìåæäó òåì, ê Êîïèêýò íà÷èíàåò âîçâðàùàòüñÿ åå ïðåæíÿÿ ëè÷íîñòü è âîñïîìèíàíèÿ, âîò òîëüêî îíè íå ñëèøêîì ñèëüíî ðàäóþò äåâóøåê...