`In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors` - M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation: Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a...
Winston Churchill`s inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. In recent years his record has come under attack. This book makes sense of this extraordinary man and his controversial...
Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power
In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. So how did the West come to dominate the Rest? In this vital, brilliant book, Niall Ferguson reveals the `killer...
This book presents collected writings from the best and funniest motoring journalist in the country. Формат издания: 13 см х 20 см.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him -...
A classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period. Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she...
Somerset Maugham`s irony and cool detachment make him an acknowledged master of the short story. The stories collected here are typical of Maugham`s wry perception of human weakness and his unique talent for evoking a...
Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.
Contains essays, reviews and articles which illuminate the life and work of a man who created a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
These thirty stories - most set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their own essentially European values and the richness and ambiguity...
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But...
Richard Evans` brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and...
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
Confederacy of Dunces (Pulitzer Prize81)
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent...
