Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

In this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the...

Little is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy...

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of...

You've made it to Friday, now what are you going to eat?

Having spent years gathering friends around her kitchen table,...

A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world

The seventeenth...

A practical book full of tips, techniques and example situations to support and encourage good behaviour in children: perfect for...

A pocket-size book of tips, techniques and ideas to prevent, cure and conquer fussy eating.

Does your child decide they don't...

Welcome to the club.

I'm still here now, all these years later. You don't leave once you've joined; it's a life membership....

Lindeblad... , Bankler...

The Sunday Times bestselling book of comfort and timeless wisdom from former forest monk, Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad

We like to...

Sicily is both a frugal peasant land with a simple robust cuisine, and also full of ornate glamour and extravagance. A most...

Walking strengthens our bodies, calms our minds and lifts our spirits. But it does so much more than this. Our vision, hearing,...

Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or...

The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal’s travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities...

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...

Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...

Life of Dante brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni...

This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called...

Rossini’s success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu,...

de Amicis... , Simonin...

As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a...

In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy...

An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have...

Follows the text of the first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1938. Contains over 20 pages of notes

After travelling...

The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels – on the run from the authorities of his native Venice...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the London Magazine, New Monthly Magazine and other English...

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing...