Penguin The Gates of Athens Иггульден Конн

In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others • 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India • As many as fifty million people are his subjects • His rule is absolute • But the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones • Battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow • Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water • Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors • The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity and heroism that was the Ancient World

От зрелищных гладиаторских боев до скрытых интриг Сената; от войн, которые определили империю, до предательств, которые едва не раскололи её на части. Серия «Император» рассказывает замечательную историю человека, которому суждено было стать величайшим римлянином из всех: Юлия Цезаря • «Врата Рима» повествуют об амбициозном молодом человеке, столкнувшемся со своим первым серьёзным испытанием. Борьба за власть в Риме вот-вот развалит республику до основания. Граждане будут бороться друг с другом в кровавом конфликте — и Юлий Цезарь окажется в эпицентре событий • «Врата Рима» – это первый том из нашумевшей серии бестселлеров «Император», в которых Конн Иггульден блестяще сочетает исторические факты и художественный вымысел, воссоздавая историю Юлия Цезаря

The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal • The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings and now The Field of Swords tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world • Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption make this a highly contemporary scene, fuelled by the intrigue of the major characters, who are now developing as full adults

The fourth volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly weaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar • Caesar must fight his toughest battle yet – with Rome itself • Julius Caesar, fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. His goal: to unseat Pompey, now dictator of the Empire • But waging war on your own people is never easy. And even after the city itself is taken and Julius, Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian re-enter in triumph, there are many battles left to fight. For across the Empire – in Spain, Africa, Greece, across Asia Minor – there are legions loyal to Pompey. How will Caesar prevail? And at what cost? • ‘The Gods of War’ is the story of ambition and loyalty, of friendship and power, of love and war

Бежавший из Рима Юлий Цезарь служит на борту военной галеры в бурных водах Средиземного моря и быстро завоевывает репутацию грозного воина. Но едва он успевает одержать знаменательную победу, как корабль захватывают пираты, а за него требуют выкуп • Цезарь, брошенный на побережье Северной Африки после нескольких месяцев, проведенных в плену, начинает собирать группу новобранцев, из которых формирует мощное войско, чтобы отомстить своим похитителям и подавить новое восстание в Греции • Вернувшись в Рим героем – и став еще более опасным для врагов — Цезарь воссоединяется со своим товарищем детства Брутом. Но вскоре друзьям приходится вступить в битву. Новая опасность угрожает городу – мятежный гладиатор по имени Спартак • «Гибель царей» – это вторая часть нашумевшего цикла бестселлеров «Император», в которых Конн Иггульден блестяще сочетает исторические факты и художественный вымысел, воссоздавая историю Юлия Цезаря — эпическую повесть об амбициях и соперничестве, храбрости и предательстве

Юлий Цезарь был убит. Нация в трауре и требует крови убийц • Великий герой Рима Юлий Цезарь был зверски убит своими самыми верными союзниками. Убийцы, прозвавшие себя освободителями, ищут убежища в сенате, где в череде могущественных консулов, сенаторов, военачальников трудно заметить самого юного из претендентов на власть — молодого человека по имени Октавиан, чьё имя войдёт в историю как Август Цезарь • Объединившись со своим великим соперником Марком Антонием, Октавиан не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы добиться возмездия и отомстить за смерть своего отца. Больше всего он ненавидит лидера заговорщиков Брута, друга детства и главного союзника Цезаря • Когда разгневанный народ выйдет на улицы Рима, Освободители будут вынуждены встретиться лицом к лицу со своей судьбой

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith • Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful • This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before

'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?' • 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth • For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed • But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved? • A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian London

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells • 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' • In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

The Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James • 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her' • When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve • When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species

The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire of his own making, translated from the Greej by Aubrey de Selincourt, and revised with an introduction and notes by J.R. Hamilton in Penguin Classics • Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror. He tells of Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his total defeat of Persia and his campaigns through Egypt, India and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path