Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets-both the Allied and Axis...Loe edasi...
For two Greek boys the author has made this little book, which tells them in English some of the stories that they soon will read for themselves in the tongue of their forefathers. But the stories are not only for boys whose fatherland lies near the...Loe edasi...
This wonderful story Bill the Minder follows the adventures of 15-year-old Bill and his cousins, Boadicea and Chad. In the process of their adventures they meet multitude weird and wonder characters such as The Ancient Marina, The Triplets, The Doc...Loe edasi...
This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of Jataka tales. However, the author confesses to ruthlessly altering them for the amusement of children and occasionally borrowing a phrase or a versicle. He opens the book w...Loe edasi...
A Midsummer Nights Dream is a comedy play - one of Shakespeares lighter works, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. Both in text, and on stage, it is one of Shakespeares most popular narratives, and remains widely performed acros...Loe edasi...
This edition of Kiplings "e;The Song of the English"e; was originally published in November 1909. It included the six subsidiary poems: The Coastwise Lights, The Song of the Dead, The Deep-Sea Cables, The Song of the Sons, The Song of the Ci...Loe edasi...
This gorgeous book is a collection of 43 Indian folk-tales superbly illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. These tales were originally collected by William Crooke but are retold here by W. D. Rouse to delight children. Rouse has chosen to keep this select...Loe edasi...
Charles Kingsleys classic, The Water Babies, was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British childrens literature for many decades. It tells the story of a young chimney sweep, Tom, who drowns in a river and is turned into a water-...Loe edasi...
This enchanting volume is a new collection of W. Heath Robinsons fantastical fairy tale art and childrens book illustrations, produced across a 50-year career during the Golden Age of Illustration. Your absurd, beautiful drawings . . . give me a pa...Loe edasi...
This beautiful book, originally published in 1913, contains a collection of seventeen classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Stories include, The March Kings Daughter, The Snow Queen, The Storks, The Real Princess, The Little Mermaid, The U...Loe edasi...
A fantastic collection of W. Heath Robinsons drawing depicting humorous wartime scenes from World War I. These 24 full page drawings originally appeared in ;The Sketch and in ;The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.W. Heath Robinson was an E...Loe edasi...
Kiplings poem The Dead King was written as a eulogy to King Edward VII as a wise devoted monarch who had served his people well. King Edward VII died on May 6th, 1910 and this poem was first printed in The Times, the Morning Post, and other Englis...Loe edasi...
The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern lite...Loe edasi...
I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.The name of William Heath Robinson has entered the national vocabulary as a by-word for eccentric inventions and makeshift solutions and with good reason. His world of cogs, bits...Loe edasi...
I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.The name of William Heath Robinson has entered the national vocabulary as a by-word for eccentric inventions and makeshift solutions and with good reason. His world of cogs, bits...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2014, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: RHE Media Limited, ISBN-13: 9781910226230)
First published in 1937, How to be a Perfect Husband is the second book in the How to... series. From finding a wife to growing old together, Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne explore many aspects of married life with witty and insightful text and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2014, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: RHE Media Limited, ISBN-13: 9781910226254)
How to Live in a Flat, if posed as a question, is worth asking today with so many articles on tiny flats with hugely inflated price tags in the newspapers. Flat-dwellers were faced with very similar problems in 1936. During 1932 and 1933 Heath Robi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2014, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: RHE Media Limited, ISBN-13: 9781910226292)
In 1935 the driving test became compulsory for anyone wishing to hold a British driving licence and a rite of passage for adults, young and old alike, was established. It was just a few years later, in 1939, that William Heath Robinson collaborated w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2014, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: RHE Media Limited, ISBN-13: 9781910226278)
The origins of How to Make a Garden Grow lie in an article in The Strand Magazine called A Highly Complicated Science. The science referred to was that of gardening and the article by K. R. G. Browne was accompanied by nine of Heath Robinsons...Loe edasi...
