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‘I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too …’ • In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man’s manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky’s disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging • The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawai’i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Written nearly fifteen years before becoming president, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama’s journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history and what makes us who we are

"Записки о нервной планете" • Бестселлер номер один по версии Sunday Times • Мир шутит злые шутки с нашим сознанием. А что, если бы мы могли что-то с этим сделать? • Рассматривая сон, новости, социальные сети, зависимость, работу и игру, Мэтт Хейг предлагает нам почувствовать себя спокойнее, счастливее и поставить под сомнение привычки цифрового века. Эта книга может даже изменить то, как вы проводите свое драгоценное время на земле • Язык издания: английский • The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller • The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? • Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age. This book might even change the way you spend your precious time on earth

A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life, to the anxious antihero of Notes From Underground—a man who both craves and despises affection—this volume and its often-tormented characters showcase Dostoyevsky’s evolving outlook on man’s fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author’s life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as “an author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul”—and Notes From Undergroundas “an awe-and-terror-inspiring example of this sympathy

'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!' • Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in the The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousousness

This Arcturus Classics edition presents two of Dostoevsky's shorter novels in one volume, Notes from the Underground and The Double • Notes from the Underground is a dystopian tale of the Underground Man, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg who retreats from society. This work is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel and influenced many classic works including Metamorphosis and Invisible Man • The Double tells the story of Golyadkin who, on a bitter snowy night, encounters a stranger who looks exactly like him. They become friends, but then Golyadkin realises that unlike himself, his double is socially successful - likeable and charming - and thus the relationship starts to deteriorate. Golyadkin is caught up in a psychological battle that can only end in tragedy

The anonymous narrator of Notes from Underground is a bitter, misanthropic man living alone in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1860s. The novel consists of the notes that the man writes, a confused and often contradictory set of memoirs or confessions describing and explaining his alienation from modern society

"Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn." - Friedrich Nietzsche • Dostoevsky's exploration of human psychology through fiction has captivated readers for over a century. This handsome hardback collection brings together three of his most notable works: Crime and Punishment, The Gambler and Notes from Underground. Writing from the fraught political landscape of 19th-century Russia, Dostoevsky explores corruption, morality and visions of a utopian society. These novels are at once gripping and profound

‘I went for a walk around the garden. A great tit warbled above a patch of coltsfoot. I felt a thousand discoveries awaited…' • Notes from a Summer Cottage by Nina Burton is a beautifully written nature memoir about the time spent renovating a cottage in the Swedish countryside, and all the species that she encountered her during her stay • Did you know that there are more ants altogether than the number of seconds that have passed since the Big Bang? And that in relation to their size, their anthill cities can be larger than London and New York? Or, that a bird’s migratory instinct is so strong that an injured stork once escaped captivity and was found six weeks later having walked 150 kilometres, following the migratory path of his flock on foot? What begins with a renovation of a an old summer cottage swiftly turns into an exploration of nature, life and philosophy, in which Nina Burton reveals the inner lives and hitherto unknown habits of the animals with which she shares

Двадцать лет назад Билл Брайсон отправился в путешествие по Британии, чтобы отдать дань уважения этому зеленому и приветливому остров, который стал его домом. Его путевые заметки были собраны в книгу Notes from a Small Island, которая быстро стала бестселлером; согласно результатам опроса BBC, читатели считают ее лучшей книгой о Британии. И вот спустя два десятилетия Билл Брайсон отправляется в новое путешествие, чтобы увидеть, как изменилась Британия • Следуя по маршруту, так называемой «Линии Брайсона», которая протянулась с юга на север острова через места, где многие люди вообще никогда не бывали, Брайсон вновь отправляется в путешествие по великолепной, эксцентричной и абсолютно уникальной стране, которая успела измениться до неузнаваемости

В 1995 году, перед тем как покинуть свой горячо любимый дом в Северном Йоркшире и вернуться на несколько лет в Штаты со своей семьей, Билл Брайсон настоял на том, чтобы совершить последнее путешествие по Британии. Его целью было сопоставить имидж страны и ее настоящее лицо и попытаться понять, что именно ему так понравилось в стране, которая произвела Мармайт; которая известна географическими названиями, такими как Фарли Уоллоп, Титси и Шеллоу Боуэллы; своей любовью к чаю и печеньям и программой Gardeners` Question Time • Книга Билла Брайсона Notes From a Small Island стала бестселлером номер один и самой любимой книгой о Британии в стране. Ее тираж составил более двух миллионов экземпляров • Книга на английском языке • In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world • In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready • They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it • Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O’Connell set out to meet them