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В книге "Аристотель. Жизнь и смысл" доступно и ярко рассказывается о биографии и философском наследии древнегреческого философа и ученого Аристотеля, ученика Платона, учителя Александра Македонского.

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Настоящая биография из серии "Жизнь замечательных людей" написана на основании изучения всех сохранившихся до наших дней материалов, касающихся жизни Галилея, - его огромной переписки, его сочинений, документов инквизиции и заметок, относящихся к истории его научных открытий и частной жизни.

The Brinkers are very poor and their children Hans and Gretel want to compete in a race to win some silver skates. Their own skates are wooden, no match for the opposition, but with help from a stranger they are given a chance to win.

Description: When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn’t expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there – nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie’s tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng – and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. It’s a situation that only Jeeves can unravel…

Description: P.G. Wodehouse was the 20th century's answer to William Shakespeare reproduced as musical comedy. In Pigs Have Wings, Mr. Wodehouse produced one of his very best efforts. As usual, the themes involve a satire of romantic love, miscommunications between the sexes, the vapid interests of the titled class, and the silliness of people in general. As the book opens, Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth finds himself faced with a threat to the supremacy of his pig, Empress of Blandings, in the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Bart, of Matchingham Hall, had already hired away Clarence's pig handler, George Cyril Wellbeloved . . . and Clarence is sure that some new skullduggery will soon follow. As the story develops, we find that it's all too true. Soon both pig camps are doing their best to knobble the other man's pig. With everyone else having a bet on the outcome, many other people are soon engaged in trying to sabotage one pig or the other. It's the most pignapping fun caper you can imagine!

Description: Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday Doran, New York. It is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s (the Depression is mentioned twice) and is a light-hearted and exclusively humorous look at the film industry and in particular at child stars.

Description: Vem hade kunnat ana att Bertie Woosters nyanlagda lilla tangorabatt en studie i rött och enligt ägarens mening prickarnas prick över i skulle bli den tuva som så när hade stjälpt hela Berties lyckolass? Föga anade han, där han stod framför spegeln i sin lya och stolt smekte den rödlätta grodden, att han därmed utmanade ett öde hemskare än döden. Hade inte Jeeves ryckt till undsättning på sitt genomfeodala sätt, vet ingen hur det hade kunnat gå. Möjligen kan man våga en gissning att denna bok JEEVES OCH FEODALANDAN då skulle ha blivit något helt annat förmodligen en av världslitteraturens stora tragedier, värdig en Dostojevskij eller någon av de andra ryssarna.

Description: Written in 1960, Jeeves In The Offing finds PG Wodehouse's best-loved characters on as fine form as ever. With Jeeves on holiday, Bertie Wooster accepts an invitation to Brinkley Court, where he hopes to pass a few pleasant days. However, there is little time to relax when the visit turns out to involve Bertie's ex-headmaster, a former fiancée, an eccentric playboy, and a purloined cow-shaped creamer. Bertie struggles to master the situation, but soon enough he needs to call for the assistance of his butler.

Description: Anton Chekhov is regarded by many as the most outstanding short story writer. This may be a surprise at the first encounter with even his most famous stories, because they are rarely driven by plot or anticipation. They are often gentle in character, elusive in purpose; but they create a resonance in the imagination that rings long. Here are 12 stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic, each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form; the dying actor, the children playing a game, the cabman with his tragedy, the orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, the family laid bare in 'In The Ravine'. With music by Tchaikovsky and Balakirev.