Vintage books The Handmaid's Tale Этвуд Маргарет

Мужчина оказывается в окружении женщин, которые становятся все бледнее, тише и меньше; личной жизни женщины мешает страх ядерной войны; одна история любви прерывается из-за урагана, а другая вспыхивает вновь из-за редкого вида птиц с Ямайки • Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories – это сборник коротких рассказов Маргарет Этвуд, автора бестселлеров «Рассказ служанки» и «Заветы». Рассказы Этвуд посвящены сложным отношениям между людьми • Книга на английском языке • A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds

Элизабет пытается пережить смерть своего любовника; ее муж собирается уйти от нее к Лесе, которую больше интересуют динозавры, нежели мужчины. Над их жизнями нависает тень покойного мужчины… • «Мужчина и женщина в эпоху динозавров» – это один из ранних романов Маргарет Этвуд. Книга станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы • Книга на английском языке • Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love • Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality and suppressed rage, has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men

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

Республика Галаад гниет изнутри. Две девушки с противоположными взглядами на режим лицом к лицу сталкиваются с безжалостной теткой Лидией. Как далеко каждая из них готова зайти ради своих убеждений? • В данном издании содержатся дополнительные материалы: вопросы для обсуждения в книжном клубе и интервью с Маргарет Этвуд, в котором писательница рассказывает о реальных событиях, вдохновивших ее на написание «Рассказа служанки» и «Заветов» • Книга на английском языке • The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? • Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the reader

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

The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking • But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved. As Hammond Innes' classic tale moves from desperate struggles on the sea to a nail-biting courtroom controversy, the murky truth about the last voyage of the Mary Deare finally comes to light

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