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Легенды о Робин Гуде, настоящем народном герое средневековой Англии, собрал и пересказал переводчик и писатель Михаил Гершензон. Книга выходит с иллюстрациями Сергея Гаврилова, многократного лауреата премии «Образ книги». Для младшего и среднего школьного возраста. В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Выдающееся средневековое произведение татарского народного творчества – эпос «Идегей» основан на реальных исторических событиях, происходивших в период распада Джучиева Улуса (Золотой Орды). Герои эпоса также являются реальными историческими лицами. Издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся средневековым литературным и историческим наследием татарского народа. В формате a4.pdf сохранен издательский макет книги.

Знаменитый ирландский писатель и фольклорист Патрик Кол ум представил наиболее полное собрание мифов и легенд о богах и героях народов Севера, восхищающих мрачной торжественностью и романтизмом величественных образов. Вы побываете в сверкающем дворце Одина и в ледяных замках злых великанов, в чудесном саду богини молодости Идунн и в мрачном подземном царстве мертвых Хель. Узнаете о Дереве мира Иггдрасиль, великой жертве героя Сигурда, тайне демонического волка Фенрира и Сумерках богов. Захватывающе интересные рассказы автора откроют для вас трагический и прекрасный мир чудес и глубокой мистики Севера. В формате PDF A4 сохранён издательский дизайн.

Расположенная на самой окраине Восточной Азии, Корея славится удивительной красотой и разнообразием природы. Не случайно ее жители назвали свою страну так поэтично: «Страна утренней свежести». Тысячелетиями трудясь на земле, освоенной предками, корейский народ создал богатую, своеобразную культуру. Неотъемлемой частью этой культуры является устное народное творчество: сказки, предания и легенды. Летними душными вечерами старики сказочники – иягикуны рассказывали сказки детям. Не одно поколение корейской детворы с восторгом слушало о чудесах и волшебниках, о хитроумных проделках чертей, о духах умерших предков, родственников. В редкие часы отдыха иягикуну внимали и взрослые, которые, как и дети, верили во всемогущего богатыря, способного избавить их от земных невзгод и притеснений янбанов. В «счастливую» могилу, для которой искали и никак не могли найти одно-единственное место на «единственной» счастливой горе. В вещие сны, в которых герою является провидец в образе седобородого старца-отшельника, даоса, дающего мудрый совет, или в облике небесной феи, которая подсказывает, как найти счастье.

Məktəbyaşlı uşaqlar, eləcə də geniş oxucu kütləsi üçün nəzərdə tutulan “Altun Kitab”ın bu nəşrində şifahi xalq ədəbiyyat nümunəsi olan tapmacalar oxuculara təqdim edilmişdir.

Məktəbyaşlı uşaqlar, eləcə də geniş oxucu kütləsi üçün nəzərdə tutulan “Altun Kitab”ın bu nəşrində şifahi xalq ədəbiyyatının ən geniş yayılmış növlərindən olan bayatılar toplanmışdır.

«Большая книга скандинавских мифов» – наиболее полное и последовательное собрание северных легенд и преданий на русском языке. Здесь вы найдете более 150 мифов, героических преданий и избранных саг, действие многих из которых разворачивается на землях нынешней России. Эта книга познакомит читателей с персонажами германо-скандинавского Олимпа: мудрым отцом богов Одином, рыжебородым силачом Тором, ведущим вечную борьбу с жестокими великанами, красавицей Фрейей, обладательницей чудесного ожерелья Брисингамен. Читатели также узнают о происхождении мира из бездны Гиннунгагап, хитрых проделках коварного бога Локи, предсказанном норнами Рагнароке – конце мира и его новом возрождении, о герое «Сказания о Нибелунгах» Сигурде, победившем дракона Фафнира, вожде Беовульфе, сразившемся с чудовищным Гренделем, искусном кузнеце Вёлунде, о великом короле викингов Рагнаре Лодброке и других легендарных героях скандинавских саг и знаменитых походах викингов. Книга станет отличным подарком как для поклонников и любителей скандинавской мифологии, так и для тех, кто только открывает для себя суровые и чарующие предания Севера. В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.

A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings.What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P.G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the ‘Silmarillion’ was winding down, Smith of Wootton Major was the product of ripened experience and reflection. It was published in 1967 as a small hardback, complete with charming black and white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, and would be the last work of fiction to be published in Tolkien’s own lifetime.Now, almost 50 years on, this enchanting tale of a wanderer who finds his way into the perilous realm of Faery is being published once again as a pocket hardback. Contained here are many intriguing links to the world of Middle-earth, as well as to Tolkien’s other tales, and this new edition is enhanced with a facsimile of the illustrated first edition, a manuscript of Tolkien’s early draft of the story, notes and an alternate ending, and a lengthy essay on the nature of Faery.

This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien’s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes.‘Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of the history of these fascinating people – a selection [of verses] offered as an ‘interim report’ to those interested in Hobbit-lore, and to any others who may find amusement in this mixed bag of old confections.’One of the most intriguing characters in The Lord of the Rings, the amusing and enigmatic Tom Bombadil, also appears in verses said to have been written by Hobbits and preserved in the ‘Red Book’ with stories of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and their friends. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil collects these and other poems, mainly concerned with legends and jests of the Shire at the end of the Third Age.This special edition has been expanded to include earlier versions of some of Tolkien’s poems, a fragment of a prose story with Tom Bombadil, and comprehensive notes by acclaimed Tolkien scholars Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.When Paris falls in love with legendary beauty Helen of Troy, the devastating effects of their affair on their families and fellow citizens are unimaginable. Battle lines are drawn, alliances are forged, and as the Greeks and Trojans march into battle, the resilience and humanity of all will be tested.In his epic story of divine ego, human frailty, and the ravages of war, Homer created an unforgettable cast of characters, whose moral dilemmas and heroic deeds will stay with readers long past the final pages of this book. Samuel Butler’s famous prose translation of Homer’s original brings the epic to an entirely new generation of readers.

Есть ли место сказке в мире смартфонов и компьютеров? Может ли домик на окраине коттеджного посёлка оказаться избушкой бабы Яги, а твой новый одноклассник сыном Морского царя? Денис Королёв теперь знает точно.

Вьетнамские сказки и легенды представляют собой драгоценные сокровища национального фольклора. Кроме того, во Вьетнаме сказкотворчество — это весьма современный процесс. Коллекция вьетнамских сказок постоянно пополняется новыми творениями, которые весьма удачно вписываются в фольклорное наследие и культурный контекст. В поведении и взаимоотношении героев этих историй, внимательные читатели обнаружат укоренённые на генетическом уровне ролевые модели, которые вьетнамцы с неизменным постоянством демонстрируют при построении деловых отношений и регулярно воспроизводят при решении практических задач. Заметки на полях раскрывают глубинный культурный контекст и особенности национального менталитета вьетнамцев, расшифровывают культурный код, дают полезные и интересные пояснения, без понимания которых читателю, мало знакомому с универсалиями восточных культур, свойственно пускаться по пути ложных ассоциаций.

Сказка "Клубок Мокоши" написана по мотивам славянских мифов. Её события происходят в те стародавние времена, когда боги спускались на землю и беседовали с людьми, а мифологические существа были такой же обыденностью, как природные или бытовые явления. Славянская мифология - источник прекрасных метафор, несущих в себе энергию добра, мудрости и красоты человеческих поступков. Сказка "Клубок Мокоши" - о силе великой и самоотверженной материнской любви, о дружбе и верности. В канву захватывающего сюжета вплетаются описания традиций и быта славянской общины, ярких и самобытных славянских праздников, которые погружают читателя в атмосферу седой древности и старины.

" Вот моя деревня: Вот мой дом родной..."(И.Суриков " Детство"). Забавные истории из жизни. Добро пожаловать на позитив!

Comprising the ancient texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, The Rivan Codex is a book which stands in the same relationship to the Belgariad and Malloreon as The Silmarillion does to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.Before David Eddings started to write his first fantasy series, the BELGARIAD, in the late 1970s, he spent a year working on the design and mythology of the fantasy world in which it is set.The Rivan Codex comprises the immensely readable background material to Eddings’ best-loved series, repeated information a lot of it, but it’s the books that repeat the information, and these seminal documents have about them an air of original inspiration, world-building in action. The rest of it is background which is taken for granted but not spelled out.History, geography, myths and folktales, peoples, gods, customs, social organization, political hierarchy, laws, dress, modes of address, produce, culture, flora, fauna, all presented with so light a touch one can only yearn for Eddings to be taken up by academics so that his style might catch on in the real real world.The 12-book long series grew out of these delightful preliminary sketches like a river growing from a spring of striking purity and constancy. Magically, the information reads fresh each time, minimal Eddings prose, beguilingly arcane, in which massive events attain an all-time perspective.

Stunning Japanese novel with a chilling twist – the follow-up to Ring and Spiral.Kaoru's father, Hideyuki, lies dying in a Tokyo hospital, his body ravaged by viral cancer. This nightmarish incurable disease has sprung out of nowhere and has begun to affect organisms all over the planet.Twenty years ago Hideyki worked on a virtual reality project which replicated evolution on earth, called the Loop. The project failed when the organisms within it inexplicably stopped reproducing normally and started cloning. Nearly all of the other scientists who worked on the Loop are already dead – from cancer.To get to the heart of the mystery, Kaoru must travel to the other side of the planet, to the Mojave desert. The secret he encounters there will overturn everything he thought he knew about the world – and his own identity.In this suspense-filled follow-up to ‘Ring’ and ‘Spiral’, Suzuki masterfully confounds the reader with a stunning new twist on the Ring mythology.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril.In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar.Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child Eärendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was ‘the first real story of this imaginary world’ and, together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.

The lost tales of ‘Animal-land’, written and illustrated by C.S. Lewis and his brother Warnie, which they developed into the chronicles of the kingdom of Boxen, newly published to mark the centenary of the first story.Half a century before the publication of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis created another imaginary world. The tales of ‘Animal-land’ which eight-year-old Jack (as his family knew him) had shared with his brother Warnie developed into the chronicles of the kingdom of Boxen. In a succession of stories over the next few years, the young Lewis explored its history, geography and the colourful exploits of its inhabitants in vivid detail, writing the last of the papers, his Encyclopedia Boxoniana, in April 1928.This landmark edition marks the centenary of the very first Boxen manuscript. Here are all the stories, some never before seen, sensitively edited and arranged to make the most of the fabulous and inventive fantasy while retaining all the vigour of a child’s imaginative writing. Lavishly and charmingly illustrated by the author, and published for the very first time in colour, together with facsimile pages from the original notebooks, this book will provide a unique insight into one of the most extraordinary minds of our age. For every reader who has been captivated by the magic of Narnia, Boxen will open a window on to another enchanted land.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, ‘Soul Mountain’ is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer – he had won a ‘reprieve from death’ and had been thrown back into the world of the living.Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is ‘Soul Mountain’.Interwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters – from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare.