Vintage books Cinderella Liberator. A Fairy Tale Revolution Solnit Rebecca

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection • Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries • The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation

Discover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little Women • In The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, triumphs and disasters, to old age. In doing so, he reveals with careful compassion the intense inner lives that throb beneath every seemingly insignificant exterior

«Я верю в сопротивление, как верю, что не бывает света без тени; или, скорее, не бывает тени, если нет света» • Фредова – одна из служанок в Республике Галаад, тоталитарном религиозном государстве, некогда известном как Соединенные Штаты. Она работает в доме командора Фреда Уотерфорда, где у нее есть всего одно предназначение – рожать детей. Все служанки, которые отказываются вступать в сексуальное рабство, чтобы вновь заселить опустошенный мир, будут повешены. Однако даже самому репрессивному государству не под силу загубить надежду и мечты. Фредова, чье будущее теперь зависит от двух мужчин, должна найти свой путь в этом жестоком мире • «Рассказ служанки» – это антиутопический роман Маргарет Этвуд, который лег в основу одноименного сериала • Книга на английском языке

Фредова – одна из служанок в Республике Галаад, тоталитарном религиозном государстве, некогда известном как Соединенные Штаты. Она работает в доме командора Фреда Уотерфорда, где у нее есть всего одно предназначение – рожать детей. Все служанки, которые отказываются вступать в сексуальное рабство, чтобы вновь заселить опустошенный мир, будут повешены. Однако даже самому репрессивному государству не под силу загубить надежду и мечты. Фредова, чье будущее теперь зависит от двух мужчин, должна найти свой путь в этом жестоком мире • «Рассказ служанки» – это антиутопический роман Маргарет Этвуд, который лег в основу одноименного сериала • Книга на английском языке • Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale • ‘Dark, subversive... Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent’ Tatler • Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today’s world • These stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. This is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave

This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of "child-friends". Carroll's imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his "dream-child", a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up • This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man's need to make a Wonderland in a changing world

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius • No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other people think - none of these things seem to matter to Juliet. She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of thought, alone. Is she a genius? It might take the rest of her life to find out • While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen and forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in 2014, and is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics. A tale that travels from an eco-millionaire's British country idyll to an Arabian Nights-style fantasy of the Middle East, this is a treat for fans of this witty, curious and always surprising author

То были лучшие времена, то были худшие времена • Люси Манетт восемнадцать лет не видела отца, которого заточили в самую страшную тюрьму Парижа – Бастилию. Когда они наконец встретились, их судьба оказалась тесно переплетена с судьбами двух мужчин: бесстрашного дворянина Дарнея и беспутного адвоката Картона. Их история, наполненная опасностью, местью, любовью и искуплением, развернётся на фоне ужасающей жестокости Французской революции • Коллекционное издание исторического романа «Повесть о двух городах» от одного из самых видных авторов классической британской литературы Чарльза Диккенса, станет замечательным подарком для ценителей нестареющей классики • Книга на английском языке • Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a world without banks, credit cards or national currencies look like for all of us? • For centuries, the system that governs how money works has stayed the same. Now there's an alternative, and it puts us on the cusp of a revolution that could reshape our world. At the heart of this lie, cryptocurrencies, a technology with the transformative potential of the printing press or the internet. They bypass the elites and cut out the gatekeepers. Unlike traditional money, they don't have a nationality, they're digital and democratic. They are also lawless • From Silicon Valley to the streets of Beijing, this is a story about a revolution in the making, a tale of human invention, and a guide to the future

Discover George Eliot’s first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption • It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful village girl, her faithful admirer, a country squire's seduction. But seen through the eyes of any of its players, the old tale becomes one of fresh heartbreak, innocent hopes, best intentions gone awry, and better selves lost and restored. George Eliot's first novel shows all her humane intelligence and intimate knowledge of the richness and complexity of ordinary life

Rejacketed alongside Air and Angels, The Mist in the Mirror and The Woman in Black to create a set of Susan Hill's most absorbing, enchanting and unsettling backlist titles • Rebecca was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel • But what happened next? • Married to the sophisticated, wordly-wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter's life should be happy and fulfilled. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, continues to cast its long shadow over them. Back in England after an absence of over ten years, it seems as if happiness will at last be theirs • But the de Winters still have to reckon with two hate-consumed figures they once knew - both of whom have very long memories

Откройте для себя классический феминистский пересказ любимых сказок Анджелы Картер, переплетенный мастером соблазнительного, яркого повествования • Из знакомых сказок и легенд - "Красная шапочка", "Синяя Борода", "Кот в сапогах", "Красавица и чудовище", "Вампиры и оборотни" - Анджела Картер создала захватывающую коллекцию мрачных, чувственных, фантастических историй • Книга на английском языке • Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling • From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories