Скачать книгу - Interesting facts: relating to the fall and death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples

Украинская версия польского журнала Murator. В Польше этот журнал выходит 25 лет и входит в десятку самых популяржых изданий Польши. Для читателей является как практическим пособием, так и экспертом в вопросах строительства и ремонта дома. "Murator" - это старопольское слово, которым называли мастера строительной профессии. Хороший муратор был одновременно архитектором и строителем, он создавал проект здания и следил за его реализацией. Он был рабочим и художником, разбирался как в укладке кирпича, так и в канонах искусства. Муратор - значит, настоящий профессионал, синоним высокого качества и компетентности, противоположность халтурщику.

In "The Masque of the Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors – of the deadly approach of a terrible pendulum, of the awful end of an ancient and noble house, and of the impossible beating of a dead heart.

The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife, who Wade claimed was Portuguese.

The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy” of its host, whom it is supposed to “improve” but only tyrannizes with gusto while refusing to praise the host for anything.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg from the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederic I. king of Prussia : to which are added four dissertations 1. On manners, customs, industry, and the progress of the human understanding in the arts and sciences ; 2. On superstitions and religion ; 3. On the ancient and modern government of Brandenburg ; 4. On the reasons for the enacting and repealing of laws / by the present king of Prussia (Friedrich II)».