Penguin The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Sterne Laurence

Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict • A humorous compendium of European thought and literature – pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais – emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram’s conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself • A very ambitious editorial project which took our team more than a year to bring to perfection

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters • Doomed to become the ‘sport of fortune’ by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy’s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor’s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window… Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy

Кот Мурр - милое животное-самоучка, написавшее свою собственную автобиографию. Но ошибка печатника привела к тому, что его история была случайно смешана с книгой о композиторе Йоханнесе Крейслере. Поскольку две версии обрываются и чередуются в драматические моменты, из путаницы возникают два совершенно разных персонажа - Мурр, уверенный в себе ученый, любовник, кутила и скандалист, и угрюмый, ипохондрический гений Крейслер. В своем буйном и причудливом романе Гофман блестяще раскрывает фантастическое, смешное и возвышенное в будничной суете повседневной жизни, делая "Жизнь и мнения кота Мурра" одним из самых смешных и странных романов девятнадцатого века • Книга на английском языке • Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography

Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon Tony Wilson • Tony Wilson was a man who became synonymous with his beloved city. As the co-founder of the legendary Factory Records and the Hacienda, he appointed himself a custodian of Manchester’s legacy of innovation and change, becoming a cultural pioneer for the North. To Paul Morley, he was this and much more: bullshitting hustler, flashy showman, inventive broadcaster, self-deprecating chancer, publicity seeker, loyal friend. It was Morley to whom Wilson left a daunting final request: to write this book • From Manchester with Love is the biography of a man who changed the world around him through sheer force of personality

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Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations

"Ужасы и нелепости религии" - это подборка работ Шопенгауэра, представляющая собой увлекательное исследование этики, религии и психологии, содержит резкие нападки на природу и логику религии, а также эссе по этике, охватывающее все - от дебатов об американском рабстве до пороков буддизма • Книга на английском языке • A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism • Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted

Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for • Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things • And realises her life has been a lie • Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas • But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary account of his travels. Here he describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals; recounts the history of Ireland's rulers; and tells fantastical stories of magic wells and deadly whirlpools, strange creatures and evil spirits. Written from the point of view of an invader and reformer, this work has been rightly criticized for its portrait of a primitive land, yet it is also one of the most important sources for what is known of Ireland during the Middle Ages

Delve into this impressive reference book on the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti - sculptor, painter, architect and poet • Including a fascinating exploration of the artist's life, his role in the Italian Renaissance and the influence he had on European art • Beautifully illustrated with 500 outstanding reproductions and photographs

Билл Брайсон родился в 1951 году в самом сердце США в городе Де-Мойн, штат Айова. В своей книге The Rise and Fall of the Thunderbolt Kid он делится с читателями воспоминаниями о своем типично американском детстве. Как и миллионы сверстников, в детстве Брайсон мечтал стать супергероем. Он бегал по дому в футболке с нарисованной на ней молнией и полотенцем вместо плаща, представляя, как прыгает с высоких зданий и уничтожает злодеев • Через свои детские фантазии он воссоздает жизнь своей семьи в 1950-х. В этот период возросла популярность телевидения, открылся Диснейленд, проводились испытания ядерных бомб, а также был богатый выбор абсолютно всего – от еды до машин • The Rise and Fall of the Thunderbolt Kid – это современная классика, мемуары одного из самых популярных авторов бестселлеров Билла Брайсона

A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror - the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527-1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude' • John Dee was one of the most influential philosophers of the Elizabethan Age. A close confidant of Queen Elizabeth, he helped to introduce mathematics to England, promoted the idea of maths as the basis of science, anticipated the invention of the telescope, charted the New World, and created one of the most magnificent libraries in Europe. At the height of his fame, Dee was poised to become one of the greats of the Renaissance. Yet he died in poverty and obscurity - his crime was to dabble in magic • Based on Dee's secret diaries which record in fine detail his experiments with the occult, Woolley's bestselling book is a rich brew of Elizabethan court intrigue, science, intellectual exploration, discovery and misfortune