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 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 the community in which they live.

Shakespeare’s sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious ‘Dark Lady’.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare’s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, The Rape of Lucrece which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and Venus and Adonis which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearean manner. The Phoenix and the Turtle is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare’s better-known poetry.

Фридрих Вильгельм Михаэль Калькбреннер (1784— 1849) — пианист-виртуоз и композитор. Многочисленные сочинения Калькбреннера: концерты, рондо, фантазии, трио для фортепиано со струнными, дуэты для фортепиано и скрипки, сонаты для фортепиано — пользовались большим успехом. Однако еще больший отклик имел его курс игры на фортепиано и упражнения к нему. Большой популярностью в педагогической практике пользуются представленные в настоящем сборнике этюды.