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A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians • Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? • Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? • Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? • What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? • How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? • Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance - it's language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back

They were there for different reasons: Vanya was hiding in the museum crowds to escape from fatigue and a sour mood, while Tasya had wandered away from her parents and gotten lost while collecting ideas for her album. The kids find that they have something in common: the ability to travel through time and space by gazing deeply and observantly into paintings. For them, the images become portals into a different reality, where they meet Rembrandt and his characters and also encounter the Queen of the Tulips

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии • Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков • Роман Джозефа Конрада «Зеркало морей» на английском языке, неадаптированное издание

'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see' • The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones, from the story's origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding, to the 'golden age' of the fin de siecle and Edwardian period, ending with the First World War. Including the most famous authors as well as some magnificent, little-known stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals, these stories are by turns topical and playful, ghostly and theatrical, rumbustious and sublime • Edited with an introduction by Philip Hensher

The Four Elements of The Perfect Shave Набор с Сумкой - Bergamot & Neroli: Масло до Бритья + Крем для Бритья + Бальзам после Бритья + Кисть + Бритва The Four Elements of The Perfect Shave Набор с Сумкой - Bergamot & Neroli: 1x Масло до Бритья - Bergamot & Neroli 30мл/1унц 1x Крем для Бритья - Bergamot & Neroli 45мл/1.5унц 1x Бальзам после Бритья - Bergamot & Neroli 30мл/1унц 1x Кисть для Бритья 1x Бритва Идеально подходит как для личного использования, так и в качестве подарка

The 4 Elements Of The Perfect Shave Набор - Lavender: Масло до Бритья 30мл + Крем для Бритья 45мл + Бальзам после Бритья 30мл + Кисть для Бритья The 4 Elements Of The Perfect Shave Набор - Lavender: 1x Масло до Бритья - Lavender 30мл/1унц 1x Крем для Бритья - Lavender 45мл/1.5унц 1x Бальзам после Бритья - Lavender 30мл/1унц 1x Кисть для Бритья Идеально подходит как для личного использования, так и в качестве подарка

The State Tretyakov Gallery : Fine Arts of the 12th - Early 20th Century = Государственная Третьяковская галерея : искусство XII - начала XX века

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages

'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.' • There are books you can't stop reading, which keep you up all night • There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life and make them vividly real • There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days • The Shock of the Fall is all of these books • The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man's descent into mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction

This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - both the good and the bad. He provides a masterly synthesis of all the latest research illustrating America's rapid growth from humble beginnings to global dominance

To Christina Olson, the entire world is her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family has lived in for generations, and tied to the farm by health and circumstance, Christina seems destined for a small life. Instead, by chance she becomes the inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and eventually the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, Christina’s World