Daedalus Books
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 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 King's Gold: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste
85%
»The fourth novel in the immensely satisfying Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte…
Kirby's Derby: Pop-Up Animals on Wheels
68%
Kirby the black lab hosts an annual soapbox derby for his animal friends in this pop-up book for…
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
85%
Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that…
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
55%
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of «I read a catalog?» Why do we say “do” at all? Is…
The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Boxed Set (количество томов: 2)
56%
If ever there was a book to make you switch off your television set, The Dangerous Book for Boys…
Hal Foster's Prince Valiant: Far From Camelot
69%
Created by Hal Foster in 1934 and gradually taken over by John Cullen Murphy in the 1970s, Prince…