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Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died. Although he specified an unpretentious funeral, it was inevitable that crowds flocked to his open grave in Westminster Abbey. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them • Filled with twists, pathos and unusual characters, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A

Владислав ПЬЯВКО - выдающийся русский тенор, народный артист Советского Союза, народный артист Кыргызстана, заслуженный деятель искусств Республики Монголия • В 1965-1989 годах солист Государственного академического Большого театра СССР. В 1967-1969 годах стажёр театра "Ла Скала", Милан. В 1989-1996 годах солист Государственной немецкой оперы (Штаатс-опер, Берлин) • С 1970-х годов постоянно публикуется в периодической печати по проблемам музыкального театра. В 1983 году снял на "Мосфильме" музыкальный фильм "Ты мой восторг, моё мученье..." как режиссёр, сценарист и исполнитель главной роли. В 1984 году в Италии награждён Золотой именной медалью города Ливорно "Владислав Пьявко - Великий Гульельмо Ратклифф" за исполнение архитрудной партии Гульельмо в опере П

Немногие письма художников так откровенны, как письма Винсента ван Гога, и эта подборка, охватывающая его творческую карьеру, проливает свет на все аспекты жизни и творчества этого сложного и измученного человека. Откровенно и трогательно рассказывая о своей религиозной борьбе, злополучных поисках любви, приступах психического заболевания и отношениях с братом Тео, письма противоречат популярному мифу о Ван Гоге как об антисоциальном сумасшедшем мученике искусства, показывая вместо этого человека с большим эмоциональным и духовным потенциалом. Прежде всего, они представляют собой насыщенное личное повествование о художественном развитии и уникальный отчет о процессе создания картин • Книга на английском языке • A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture

Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice • A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country

Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction • The second annual instalment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including eight original and exclusive additions, represents the state of the art in international science fiction • Navigating around the globe, The Best of World SF Volume 2 features writers from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Grenada, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Uganda and Zimbabwe • Each story has been selected by World SF expert and award-winning author Lavie Tidhar

Charles Baudelaire was one of the most influential French writers of the 19th century. This collection of his poems addresses themes of love, decadence, and death, and includes a selection of his works of poetic prose • Baudelaire's darkly beautiful poetry and lyrical prose never fail to leave a lasting mark on his readers. Controversial and challenging, the outspoken nature of his poems marks him out as a pivotal figure in European literature - a bridge between the Romantics of the past and 20th-century modernism

The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction • They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time • Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters, adventurers and time travellers, rogues and royalty • In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven languages

Книга The Art of Manufacture: Alain Ducasse из серии Classics, фото — Лазиз Амани (Laziz Hamani) • Откройте для себя искусство, которое начинается с руки мастера — будь то обжаривальщик кофе, шоколатье, мороженщик или шеф-кондитер • С тех пор как

The Art of Home: Sara Story — первая книга проектов Сары Стори, модной американской дизайнера интерьеров. Её работы неоднократно появлялись на страницах таких изданий, как Architectural Digest, Vogue Living, Galerie и New York Times, журнал Elle D?cor вкл

In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Petain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history • For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained