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Gantera hexagonala Sportmann este potrivita pentru persoanele care doresc sa isi dezvolte musculatura bratelor, a pieptului si a spatelui. Aceasta gantera este fabricata din materiale de calitate, manerul solid este realizat din fier, iar greutatile sunt acoperite cu cauciuc rezistent. Gantera are forma hexagonala, fiind mai usor de depozitat. Manerul ganterei hexagonale Sportmann are forma ergonomica si prezinta striatii pe suprafata sa pentru o prindere sigura a ganterei in mana, impiedicand...

Roata de Exerciții inSPORTline AR500 este un accesoriu unic de antrenament pentru întărirea nu numai a mușchilor abdominali, ci și a brațelor, spatelui și mușchilor pectorali. Permite două poziții de prindere - prima este o prindere clasică, cu mâinile paralele între ele, iar a doua este atunci când o mână este mai aproape de corp decât cealaltă. InSPORTline AR500 este fabricat din polipropilenă(roata) și oțel (bare de mâner), ceea ce pe...

Internetul este parte din realitatea noastra. Iar odata cu extinderea marginilor acestei realitati (prin incalcarea trecerii dintre offline si online) s-a extins si sfera in care drepturile, libertatile si obligatiile noastre pot coexista. Cunoasterea si respectarea limitei ne pastreaza si aici in cadrul legalitatii. Necunoasterea limitei inseamna deseori depasirea si, implicit, incalcarea dreptului celuilalt. Insa, cum ne aparam drepturile in noua realitate? Raspunsul la aceasta intrebare il v...

Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked.The cry `Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brutal realities, while personal ambitions taint public actions. Rich in characterisation and replete with eloquent rhetoric, Julius Caesar remains engrossing and topical: a play for today. An apariti...

În materie de fotografie, Bill Jay era în mod cert un connaisseur, unul dintre cei mai adevarati si mai rafinati pe care i-am întâlnit. Ca un îndragostit incurabil, a gândit, a declansat si a scris despre acest mijloc de expresie vreme de 50 de ani (peste 400 de articole si 20 de carti nu sunt putin lucru).Scrisul lui Bill Jay e încântator, chiar si atunci când este incomod si, pe alocuri, taios. Desfiinteaza cu nonsalanta retetele, presupuse...

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long.Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Si...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismat...

In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King's son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concerned with the pleasures of the tavern world and the company of the fat rogue, Falstaff, than with concerns of state. Eventually, however, Hal proves a courageous foe of the rebels.This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous ...

Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It has been filmed and televised several times. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in...

Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.The other two stories in this book ...

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby.However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote...

In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket, this collection contains The Selfish Giant, a remarkable story of the redemptive power of love. An aparitie: 1999Format: 19 X 12,2Numar pagini: 80

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of `imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king o...

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictme...

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.Hardy's portrait of Jude, the idealist and dreamer who is a prisoner of his own physical natu...

The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Along the way they encounter various hazards and witness many incredible sights such as the underground forest, illuminated by electricity, the Great Geyser, the battle between prehistoric monsters, the stra...

Traducere si note de Mircea Ivanescu Ingrijire de editie, prefata, cronologie si note de Ioana Zirra Ulise, caruia ia sarbatorim centenarul, a crescut mereu in importanta in decursul celor 100 de ani de la publicare, pe 2 februarie 1922 la Paris, ajungand sa fie considerat unul dintre cele mai bune romane scrise vreodata. „In Ulise gasesti terenul perfect pentru testarea oricaror teorii. Istoricilor le ofera imaginea fascinanta a Dublinului intr-o vreme de relativa pace, doar cu semne v...

"Prefer sa ma gândesc la fotografi nu atât ca la niste documentaristi, cât ca la niste clar-vazatori – cu dubla semnificatie cuprinsa în acest termen”. Sunt vrajit de fotografia argintariei dintr-un sertar de bucatarie a lui Wright Morris. A mai facut cineva asta înaintea lui, iar daca da, a facut-o macar aproape la fel de bine? Running White Deer a lui Paul Caponigro este o fotografie minunata. La fel si Pepper No. 30 a lui Edward Weston, dupa care toti...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage.She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However,...