Chaucer\'s tales of his motley band of travellers on their pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket have become legendary and still represent, in John Dryden\'s words,"\'God\'s plenty". The Canterbury Tcdes,...
The Clicking of Cuthbert and Other Golf Stories
The Clicking of Cuthbert features high comedy from the noble and ancient game of golf: even golf-haters will be unable to resist the combination of physical farce, verbal wit, and the gallery of unforgettable characters.
A 13th-century French version of the Camelot legend, writen by an unknown author. It depicts a Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail. Whispers of Queen Guinevere`s infidelity distress...
They presided over the most destructive regimes in history, murdered millions and fought the most barbarous war the world had seen. Yet countless Germans and Russians worshipped them and the values they stood for. How...
What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear it would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins? And why did ordinary people continue to obey the...
Eugenia`s wit, guile and sophistication, and Felix`s debonair vivacity form an uneasy alliance with the Puritan morality and the frugal, domestic virtues of the Americans. A rich and delicately balanced comedy of...
The Forsyte Saga 03. Maid in Waiting. Flowering Wilderness. Over the River
In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve...
