Историческая литература
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Hubo un tiempo en el que el Rubicón no era solo un río y a la Romaña se la llamaba Flaminia debido a una vía que llevaba a Roma. Y cuando en el año 49 a.C. Julio César llegó delante se encontró con que lo esperaba una empalizada de madera pintada de «rúbico», es decir, rojo púrpura, el color oficial de Roma, que el impedía el paso hacia Roma. ¿Pero por qué motivo se había construido, incluso antes de que naciera César, una línea roja defensiva que llegaba hasta el mar para cerrar el paso a los...
| Автор | Ivo Ragazzini |
In this timely book, Mark Garnett provides a bracing reassessment of the role of the British Prime Minister, from Margaret Thatcher’s controversial tenure to Boris Johnson’s attempt to confront a pandemic with a ministerial team created to face the very different challenge of Brexit. Taking a thematic approach, Garnett explores the impact of major political developments and personalities on key aspects of prime ministerial functions as party leader, Cabinet-maker, chief diplomat and electoral...
| Автор | Mark Garnett |
Co mają wspólnego ze sobą zabójstwo w Nowym Jorku i skandal obyczajowy w niemieckiej Armii? Rodzina Szuszkinów po przymusowym wyjeździe z kraju próbuje odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości Stanów Zjednoczonych końca drugiej rewolucji przemysłowej. Maksymilian Kwilecki wyjeżdża do Afryki w poszukiwaniu nowego życia i bogactwa. Hannelore Hallman natomiast próbuje się dowiedzieć, czy w życiu jej prawdziwego ojca jest dla niej miejsce. Hanna Cygler świetnie żongluje słowem i emocjami, a przy tym...
| Автор | Hanna Cygler |
Pasjonujący cykl powieściowy, który przyniósł Johnowi Galsworthy’emu literacką Nagrodę Nobla! „Nowoczesna komedia” to kolejna trylogia powieściowa poświęcona rodzinie Forsyte'ów. W jej skład wchodzą „Biała małpa” (1924), „Milczące zaloty. Srebrna łyżka” (1926) i „Mijający się w mroku. Łabędzi śpiew” (1928). Następuje tu metamorfoza głównego bohatera, Soamesa, który z egoisty i dorobkiewicza przeistacza się w dostojnego, uduchowionego dżentelmena. Pokolenie, które Galsworthy wcześniej...
| Автор | John Galsworthy |
Once there was a time when Romagna was named Flaminia and the Rubicon was not only a river. When in 49 BCE Julius Caesar arrived he found waiting for him a wooden palisade coloured ruby red where he deployed his legions for several months on that border defended by the legionaries of Pompeo. But who and for what reason was it built, even before Caesar was born, a red line of defence built even to the sea and what would Caesar and his legions do to breach it? Born out of the historical...
| Автор | Ivo Ragazzini |
Año 2018: del emblema del Palazzo della Signoria de Jesi desaparece la corona de bronce que desde siempre había estado encima del león rampante, simbolizando la realeza de la ciudad. Un nuevo enigma que resolver para la estudiosa Lucia Balleani que, finalmente después de encontrar el amor en el joven arqueólogo Andrea Franciolini, deberá descubrir junto con él algunas partes desconocidas de la vida de su antepasada Lucia Baldeschi. Así que retrocedemos medio milenio, junto con nuestros dos...
| Автор | Stefano Vignaroli |
Трагическая история Роберта Джонсона, великого американского блюзового музыканта 30-х годов, проливающая свет на его трагический конец, предыстория и полная дискография. Захватывающий триллер, основанный на историческом исследовании короткой жизни Роберта Джонсона, которого заслужено считают дедушкой рока и при этом очень любимого блюзменами. Это произведение, возможно, является единственным объяснением тёмного и запутанного случая, переплетённого с эзотеризмом и религиозным фанатизмом, приведя...
| Автор | Patrizia Barrera |
Year 2017: the young scholar Lucia Balleani, arranging and classifying the texts of the library of the Hoenstaufen Foundation, starts working in the old palace that had been the residence of the noble Baldeschi-Balleani family, of which she is a direct descendant. A series of visions linked to what happened to Lucia Baldeschi, of the same name, will lead the reader to discover with her an interesting story that took place in the same place 500 years before. During the Renaissance Jesi is rich in...
| Автор | Stefano Vignaroli |
‘A fascinating portrait of the women who helped make a dynasty’ The Times‘Bewitching’ Woman & Home‘Evocative’ Woman’s WeeklyTwo women, two very different destinies, drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London:Elizabeth of York, her life already tainted by dishonour and tragedy, now queen to the first Tudor king, Henry the VII.Joan Vaux, servant of the court, straining against marriage and motherhood and privy to the deepest and darkest secrets of her queen. Like the ravens, Joan must...
| Автор | Джоанна Хиксон |
”Impresionantes historias que entrelazan los principales frentes de la Primera Guerra Mundial en un relato arrollador”. ─ Reseña La Gran Guerra dejó millones de civiles y soldados mutilados o muertos. Siga los pasos de los militares británicos, alemanes y estadounidenses mientras detallan la vida y las luchas de la guerra en un país extranjero y extraño. Descubra sus hipnotizantes y realistas historias de combate, valor y angustia en relatos amenos y equilibrados contados desde el frente.
| Автор | Daniel Wrinn |
Historical novel that narrates the experiences of a Greek fishing family during the first Punic War Almices Theopoulos, a young fisherman, lives with his family on Samos, an island in the Greek Dodecanese. The casual rescue of some castaways causes tragedy in his family. The year 264 BC, after Alexander the Great, Carthage and Rome are the new superpowers of the time, whose conflicting interests lead to the first Punic War. In an exciting drama the characters will be immersed in the warlike...
| Автор | Xisco Bonilla |
C’est l’histoire de Tristano, un jeune diplomate pontifical au passé mystérieux et ténébreux qui, entre stratégies et tromperies, aventures et complots, dans l’Italie de la Renaissance, porte au succès toutes ses entreprises en maîtrisant l’art de la séduction. Mais le moment arrive où le destin lui enverra sa mission la plus importante. C’est alors que Tristano voit sa vie bouleversée … et qu’il séduit celle qui, immortalisée si énigmatiquement par Léonard de Vinci, charmera par son regard le...
| Автор | Dionigi Cristian Lentini |
Gorący czerwiec 1941 roku. Jasne księżycowe noce, niskie bagienne łąki, cienisty sad i zimna żyła rzeki, która podzieliła świat na pół. Na jednym brzegu Niemcy, żelazny wąż czołgów, ciężarówek, maszyn. Na drugim Rosjanie. Pośrodku wiejski przewoźnik, który z jednego brzegu na drugi wozi nocą każdego, kto zapłaci. Żydowskie rodzeństwo, które w drodze do wyśnionej Ziemi Obiecanej, chowa się w stodole tuż obok kałuż świńskich wnętrzności. Chłopcy z partyzantki, wierzący jeszcze, że wojna jest...
| Автор | Andrzej Stasiuk |
Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying—abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most...
| Автор | Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier |
From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have...
| Автор | Cheryl Thompson |
Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps of the empires' territories at different stages of their existence and organized thematically to reflect the different driving forces behind empires throughout history (such as faith, nomadic culture, nationhood and capitalism), each section discusses...
| Автор | Peter Davidson |
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction Book of the YearUSA Today bestsellerInspired by true events‘Moving and authentic’ Dinah Jefferies ‘Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful ’ Jenny Ashcroft‘Deeply moving. Be prepared – have handkerchiefs on standby at the end’ Antonia Senior, The Times 'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty China, 1941. With Japan’s declaration of war on the Allies, Elspeth Kent’s future changes forever. When soldiers take...
| Автор | Hazel Gaynor |
From James Bond to Mata Hari, in scores of books and movies, and on the front pages of newspapers, spies have always captured our imagination. But what’s the truth behind the fiction? The Secrets of Spies sheds light on the mysterious life of the spy, explaining the real-life origins of spying, examining some of history’s most notorious spies and spycatchers, and revealing the role espionage plays today in business, politics, and everyday life. Filled with lavish illustrations and hundreds of...
| Автор | Weldon Owen |
On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided—and continues to provide—a condition of possibility for conversation between...
| Автор | Emily Sun |
Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth. While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones reveals a new side to his character. Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that continued even as he lay dying. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's...
| Автор | Philippa Jones |
An inspiring story set in the time of the Great Depression, Bewilderment: A Novel of the Great Depression follows the story of a coal delivery man, Gabriel «Gabe» Goodfellow, who wants to lighten the hearts of the people in homes he visits. Poverty is felt everywhere and people are hopeless. So, he thinks that there can be some joy and inspiration by arranging for the carnival to visit the town. His intentions are pure and altruistic, but then he has to deal with family problems. Things get...
| Автор | Don Gutteridge |
Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English...
| Автор | Maryam Wasif Khan |
In a wonderful follow up to Summer's Idyll, the book that first introduced his readers to protagonist «Billy» or «Junior,» this second work, Winter's Descent continues this lovely story and will certainly keep readers enthralled from beginning to end. Following Billy and his life as he moves with his mother to the countryside of Ontario during the Second World War, the story is one that provides deeply personal historical detail that Gutteridge's fans have come to know and love....
| Автор | Don Gutteridge |
Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth. While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones reveals a new side to his character. Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that continued even as he lay dying. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's...
| Автор | Philippa Jones |