Vintage books The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Sterne Laurence

Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict • A humorous compendium of European thought and literature – pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais – emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram’s conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself • A very ambitious editorial project which took our team more than a year to bring to perfection

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard' • Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations

Когда Саладин отбил Иерусалим у крестоносцев в 1187 году, вернув Священный город исламскому правлению, он вызвал волну потрясений по всей христианской Европе и мусульманскому Ближнему Востоку, которые ощущаются и сегодня • Это была кульминация в высшей степени захватывающей жизни. Родившийся в знатной курдской семье на севере Ирака, этот воин и дипломат сражался под знаменем джихада, но в то же время неустанно трудился над построением империи, простиравшейся от Северной Африки до Западного Ирака. Собрав вместе неспокойную коалицию,он смог захватить Иерусалим только для того,чтобы начать Третий крестовый поход и встретиться лицом к лицу со своим величайшим противником, королем Ричардом Львиное Сердце • Опираясь на богатую смесь арабских и европейских источников,это исчерпывающий рассказ как о человеке,так и о легенде, которую он породил, ярко описывающий неустанные действия его жизни и прослеживающий их последствия в культуре и политике вплоть до наших дней

В этот сборник входят самые любопытные и запоминающиеся рассказы сэра Артура Конана Дойла о культовом сыщике Шерлоке Холмсе, включая истории о стычках с опасными загадочными незнакомцами, изобретательных ограблениях, смертельных заговорах и спрятанных бриллиантах. В погоне за новыми делами проницательный детектив и его отважный помощник посещают самые разные места – от привычных лондонских улочек до живописных английских деревень и холодных швейцарских скал, которые тонут в брызгах Райхенбахского водопада • Книга на английском языке • This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the streets of London and the English countryside to a chilling encounter at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland

Delve into this impressive reference book on the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti - sculptor, painter, architect and poet • Including a fascinating exploration of the artist's life, his role in the Italian Renaissance and the influence he had on European art • Beautifully illustrated with 500 outstanding reproductions and photographs

A fascinating biography of the Renaissance artist and inventor, and gallery of paintings and drawings

Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon Tony Wilson • Tony Wilson was a man who became synonymous with his beloved city. As the co-founder of the legendary Factory Records and the Hacienda, he appointed himself a custodian of Manchester’s legacy of innovation and change, becoming a cultural pioneer for the North. To Paul Morley, he was this and much more: bullshitting hustler, flashy showman, inventive broadcaster, self-deprecating chancer, publicity seeker, loyal friend. It was Morley to whom Wilson left a daunting final request: to write this book • From Manchester with Love is the biography of a man who changed the world around him through sheer force of personality

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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

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations

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