Daedalus Books
Thames: The Biography
68%
In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden…
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
66%
This tale of two princesses — one beautiful and one unattractive — and of the struggle between…
The Amazing Lift-The-Flap ABC
99%
A phenomenally phonetic ABC book, packed with more than enough jokes to keep children amused and…
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
65%
A magisterial work of narrative history, hailed in Britain as the best one-volume account of the…
Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and About Maxim Gorky
95%
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of a kind unmatched by that of any other writer in…
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
56%
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in…
The Secret History of the English Language
79%
In a hugely enjoyable read with gloriously corrosive prose, MJ Harper slashes and burns through the…
Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
76%
Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the…
The White Tiger
87%
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger — the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him…
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
57%
An exhilarating exploration of how the world's languages are likely to transform and be transformed…
Emotional Awareness: Psychological Balance and Compassion
69%
Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of…
Careless in Red
66%
In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas…
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
75%
Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the…
Painters of the Italian Renaissance (количество томов: 2)
78%
This comprehensive, two-volume work presents the extraordinary panorama of Italian painting…
The Canterbury Tales
68%
Eminent poet, translator, and scholar Burton Raffel — whose translation of «Beowulf» has sold more…
Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
79%
Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire…
Alfred and Emily
88%
»I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left…
Bedtime Stories for the Very Young
66%
Feeling jealous over the attentions given his new baby sibling, a little fox runs away from home,…
The Best American Comics 2008
57%
This newest edition to the Best American Series — «A genuine salute to comics» (Houston Chronicle)…
The Dog Who Saved Santa
57%
The hilarious Christmas story of a dog who rids a young Santa of his slacker ways. It's…