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This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Princess and the Pea', first published in May of 1835. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions since its first publication, with many, many, different artists illustrating...

Avec Rupert Brooke, l'ange foudroyé, Christian Soleil fait revivre non seulement un des plus grands poètes de son époque mais aussi le monde disparu de l'Angleterre d'avant la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 août 1887 – 23 avril 1915) est un poète anglais connu tant pour...

Ce livre est la lettre post mortem d’un homme à sa fille. Cet homme, c’est le peintre anglais Duncan Grant. Il écrit pour expliquer ce que fut sa vie: son enfance passée dans la campagne anglo-saxonne, ses relations amoureuses complexes et anticonformistes, son amitié avec les grands artistes...

Julian Bell était le fils de Vanessa Bell et de Clive Bell, et le neveu de Virginia Woolf. Socialiste, poète, intellectuel, cet étudiant de King’s College, Cambridge, décide de s’engager dans la guerre d’Espagne contre les troupes de Franco, où il mourra en 1937. Dans ces entretiens imaginaires,...

The critically acclaimed collection of Richard Christian Matheson's stories of dread and the 'irreal'. Inescapably troubling and bizarre, these sixty stories are severe and immediate. These stories are a scape of ominous excess and psychological revelation. Matheson's heralded style is, as always, both distilled and hypnotic.

Sometimes you want to read in Italian. Sometimes you want to read in English. There’s a great option: bilingual books! Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the Italian books to enjoy since you can...

50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics) Inhalt: Voltaire - Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Joseph von Eichendorff - Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein oder Der...

Small Bungalows is a compact guide to getting started on building a new Arts and Crafts home that fits today's modern lifestyle-all under 1,800 square feet. Author Christian Gladu shares valuable information on choosing a plot of land, following green building principles, staying true to the principles...

A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation. The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of...

A powerful, enraging, tear-jerking reminder of how so few Americans have sacrificed so much during the so-called' war on terror'. the best kind of war book. - Alex Kershaw, author of The Bedford Boys and Escape from the Deep "Through the voices and experiences of five very diverse members...

Updated with a new forward and released at a time when the need for economic transformation has never been so urgent Passionately argues that civil society should be placed back at the centre of our financial landscape – and sets out how to do just that Offers an economics for our time: democratic,...

Enduring Success addresses a key question in business today: How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies, targeting nine that...

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Britain's rail privatisation was one of the greatest political failures of recent history. A well-functioning industry was torn apart to satisfy political dogma and privatised in a way that not only compromised safety and wrecked performance but also resulted in financial melt-down. In this...