Vintage books The Gulag Archipelago Солженицын Александр Исаевич

The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the novel that first brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to public attention. His story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps

Александр Исаевич Солженицын — выдающийся русский писатель, публицист, общественный деятель, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе («За нравственную силу, с которой он продолжил традиции великой русской литературы», 1970), лауреат Государственной премии Российской Федерации за выдающиеся достижения в области гуманитарной деятельности (2006), академик Российской академии наук, «совесть России». Первое же его произведение, рассказ «Один день Ивана Денисовича», опубликованный в «Новом мире» в 1962 году, принес ему всемирную славу. Потом увидели свет рассказы «Матренин двор», «Случай на станции Кочетовка», «Для пользы дела» и «Захар-Калита». На этом публикации прекратились. Больше ни строки в СССР не было напечатано, произведения писателя выходили в самиздате и за рубежом

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia • In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia • Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia, The Fatal Shore is the definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps in north-western Bosnia and about seeking justice for Bosnia today • But justice is not Reckoning. The book finds that the survivors are lost not only geographically, but in history – betrayed in war, and also in peace

The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert Victor Cha • ‘We killed Americans • We are killing Americans • We will kill Americans.’ • North Korean schoolchildren conjugating verbs • How did North Korea become The Impossible State, where citizens found humming South Korean pop songs risk being sent to a gulag, and yet a starving populace clings fiercely to its Dear Leader Kim Jong-un? What does the future hold for a regime with terrifying nuclear ambitions and an endless war with its southern counterpart? Former White House adviser and Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, Victor Cha, pulls back the curtain on the world’s most isolated country to provide this unprecedented and timely insight into North Korea’s history, present and future

Александр Солженицын — русский писатель, публицист, общественный деятель, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе («За нравственную силу, с которой он продолжил традиции великой русской литературы», 1970), лауреат Государственной премии Российской Федерации за выдающиеся достижения в области гуманитарной деятельности (2006), академик Российской академии наук. В настоящее издание вошла знаменитая повесть «Раковый корпус» — о больных онкологического диспансера в среднеазиатском городе (Ташкенте), в том числе ссыльных, повесть «Адлиг Швенкиттен», а также полное собрание рассказов и «крохоток» (1959–1999)

Александр Солженицын — русский писатель, публицист, общественный деятель, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе • («За нравственную силу, с которой он продолжил традиции великой русской литературы», 1970), лауреат Государственной • премии Российской Федерации за выдающиеся достижения в области гуманитарной деятельности (2006), академик Российской • академии наук. Плотное действие романа происходит в три декабрьских дня 1949 года — на «шарашке» (научно-исследовательском • институте-тюрьме для заключенных специалистов), на даче Сталина, в студенческом общежитии, в доме сталинского • вельможи, на Лубянке. Динамичный сюжет вокруг поиска дипломата, выдавшего государственную тайну. Переплетение • многих действующих лиц, быт «шарашки», споры и раздумья о судьбах России, о личном участии каждого в истории страны

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’ dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. To save the Ds from total boredom, the Amazons arrange for their friends to stay in a tumble-down hut in the woods. And as long as no one discovers they're there they can sail all summer long • In the Backstory you can learn how to make a campfire! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike • With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction – pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, finds himself physically unable to write a line • He treks from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Could it be, he wonders to himself, that the cause of the pain is nothing less than the books he has written? • As he grapples with this possibility, he tries an onslaught of painkillers, then vodka, and finally marijuana

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury • It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of firing squads and by night the flickering lights of bonfires lit by rebel bands. Prince Fabrizio knows that beneath these outward signs of transformation, the sensuality, languor and corruption of his native land will never change. But can his family’s ancient power endure? Lampedusa’s macabre myth remains astounding relevant, reflecting any modern edifice of power and money just as surely as it shows us a corner of Italy long ago

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire • One summer’s day in 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe. Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships and the very name of Viking gave rise to fear and dread, so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from ‘the Northmen’s Fury’

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic's surrender. In fact, many of the Renaissance's most celebrated artists and thinkers emerged not during the celebrated 'rebirth' of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century • The Beauty and the Terror is an enrapturing narrative which includes the forgotten women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day