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Мир Шекспира никогда не слишком сильно отличается от нашего собственного, пронизанного теми же трагедиями, теми же экзистенциальными вопросами и домашними заботами. В своей необыкновенной книге "Без ума от Шекспира. От классной комнаты до театра и отделения неотложной помощи" Джонатан Бейт объединяет "тогда" и "сейчас". Он исследует моменты своей собственной жизни – потери и испытания – и спрашивает, сможет ли он, если вы будете упорствовать с Шекспиром, предложить слово мудрости или человеческое понимание для любого времени или любого кризиса. По пути мы встречаем таких актеров, как Джуди Денч и Саймон Кэллоу, и таких писателей, как доктор Джонсон, Джон Китс, Вирджиния Вульф и Сильвия Плат, которые обращались к Шекспиру в свои мрачные времена

«Баламут предлагает тост» – продолжение одной из самых известных книг британского писателя и теолога Клайва Стейплза Льюиса. Оригинальное произведение, «Письма Баламута», было оформлено в виде писем старого беса Баламута, опытного искусителя и верного прислужника «всенизшего». Письма были адресованы его племяннику, юному бесу Гнусику, и попали в руки Льюиса тайным путём, который он отказывался рассекречивать. Несмотря на колебания автора, через несколько лет после публикации «Писем» читатель всё же смог добиться от него продолжения • Теперь, в 75-ю годовщину первой публикации «Писем», издательство William Collins представляет новое издание книги «Баламут предлагает тост», включающее также и другие произведения автора • «Баламут предлагает тост», книга выдающегося британского писателя Клайва Стейплза Льюиса, является знаковым произведением для направления популярной теологии

‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’ • John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age • In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence • Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries

Пытаясь разобраться в биографии человека, который подарил миру десятки шедевров, Билл Брайсон рассматривает многовековые мифы, полуправду и откровенную ложь. Вместе с ним мы оказываемся на улицах Елизаветинской Англии, где оживают места и персонажи, вдохновившие творчество классика • Собрав воедино информацию из огромного множества источников, Билл Брайсон написал одну из лучших книг о жизни и творчестве Уильяма Шекспира, одного из самых известных, и в то же время самых загадочных людей в истории. Произведение станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников творчества классика • Книга на английском языке • From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet • Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense of the man behind the masterpieces

There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders • Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee’s evolutionary ancestors – flying 100 million years earlier – and today they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt • For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world • With endless surprises, this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig, about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make paper

A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn't • For hundreds of years we have heard about the great men of history, but what about herstory? • In this freewheeling history of modern Britain, Cathy Newman writes about the pioneering women who defied the odds to make careers for themselves and alter the course of modern history; women who achieved what they achieved while dismantling hostile, entrenched views about their place in society. Their role in transforming Britain is fundamental, far greater than has generally been acknowledged, and not just in the arts or education but in fields like medicine, politics, law, engineering and the military • While a few of the women in this book are now household names, many have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in history

The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild • What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? • Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place? • How can the isolation of the South Pole highlight what’s most important? And how can we tap into the same reflective state in our daily lives? • Writing during the unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic and drawing on a wealth of personal stories, Ben reflects on the significance of nature to all our lives and shows us how we can benefit from living a little more wild • Drawing on his greatest adventures, he shares what his time spent in the wilderness has taught him about life

In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible stories of three women who raised three world-changing men • Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open police vitriol • It was a society that would deny their sons' humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons

A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of animal communication, where big data and artificial intelligence are changing our relationship with animals forever • In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. After a video clip of the event went viral, Tom found himself inundated with theories about what happened. He became obsessed with trying to find out what the whale had been thinking and sometimes wished he could just ask it. In the process of making a film about his experience, he discovered that might not be such a crazy idea • This is a story about the pioneers in a new age of discovery, whose cutting-edge developments in natural science and technology are taking us to the brink of decoding animal communication – and whales, with their giant mammalian brains and sophisticated vocalisations, offer one of the most realistic opportunities for us to do so

Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean • Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay • Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world • Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women’s rights • Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley • ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ is how Lord Byron, the poet who drank wine from a monk’s skull and slept with his half-sister, was described by one of his many lovers. But ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ serves as a good description for the entire Georgian period: often neglected, the hundred or so years between the coronation of George I in 1714 and the death of George IV in 1830 were years when the modern world was formed, and changes came thick and fast

Издательство HarperCollins с гордостью представляет новую серию известных и значимых произведений классической литературы • Сонеты Шекспира никого не оставят равнодушным. В них великий классик рассуждает на такие темы, как страсть, мимолетность красоты, неумолимое течение времени, сущность настоящей и вечной любви....На протяжении столетий это 154 сонета покоряют сердца влюбленных и литературоведов, и за четыре века нисколько не утратили своей актуальности • Книга на английском языке • HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Universally admired and quoted, Shakespeare's Sonnets have love, beauty and the passing of time at their heart. Featuring some of the best-known and best-loved lines in the history of poetry ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds"), these evocative sonnets explore passion, the fleeting nature of beauty and the essence of true and everlasting love

A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain • Trees are immensely valuable. They give shape to our lives with wood, the material that makes our homes, our books, our belongings; they nourish us with the air we breathe and the fruits we eat; and they sustain us, with their shade and the comfort of their presence. They are also fascinating - they are the biggest and oldest living organisms on the planet and are essential components of many of the landscapes of Britain. Trees have been vital in determining the ecology of our planet as well as the development of human cultures and communities, yet how much do we really understand about them? • How do trees live? How do they fit into their environments? Why are they so important to ecosystems on earth, and to us? And what does the future hold for trees? Can they solve the problems of climate change by absorbing enough carbon dioxide, and would we run out of oxygen if all the world's trees disappeared? Do trees really talk to each other? There is much to learn about these silent giants