Гийом Аполлинер (Giyom Appoliner) Французский литератор в своей лирике, рассказах и драматических произведениях открыл новые возможности художественного изображения действительности. Аполлинер был приверженцем "кубизма", ввел в искусство понятие "сюрреализм" и последовательно связывал в своих стихах форму и содержание, новаторски достигая их симбиоза.
Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes and others – the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. John Aubrey gave the wittiest, amusing and moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey's Brief Lives has been loved for generations for its colorful gossipy tone and for the glimpses it provides of the unofficial sides of its subjects. Aubrey's use of informants and his eye for the unusual provides much more vivid pictures than a biography based on documents could. He is frank but never malicious. Read by Brian Cox
Pirate Jack Пират Джек – роман для детей. Путешествия во времени, пиратские сокровища, джунгли и битвы.
A fun adventure novel. Young Jack Spencer sees his father's boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. In desperation, he sets out on a dangerous adventure through time to find pirate treasure and bring it home. When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson's crew, he enters a life and death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery. Each chapter is under ten minutes in length. (20 chapters). Rated PG - For ages 13 and higher.
Long, long ago, in the winter-time, when the snowflakes were falling like little white feathers from the sky, a beautiful Queen sat beside her window, which was framed in black ebony, and stitched. As she worked, she looked sometimes at the falling snow, and so it happened that she pricked her finger with her needle, so that three drops of blood fell upon the snow. How pretty the red blood looked upon the dazzling white! The Queen said to herself as she saw it, "Ah me! If only I had a dear little child as white as the snow, as rosy as the blood, and with hair as black as the ebony window-frame..."
