Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of...

'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!'

One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed...

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an...

Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a...

'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'

Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

Diogenes, Julian

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics

From their founding in the fifth century...

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an...

'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred...

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on...

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated...

Warhol... , Hackett...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused...

Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from...

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a...

The autobiography of an American icon

'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'

Andy Warhol -...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari...

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are...

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an...

George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the...

A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and...

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in...