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Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history • 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' • Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race woman who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. It becomes easy for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. One, slightly more light-skinned than the other, lives her life passing for a white person, married to a flagrant racist while her friend observes uneasily • Masterfully plotted and infinitely illuminating, Quicksand and Passing are two of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance

Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Nella Larsen's intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America's Harlem Renaissance • The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War

Childhood friends Clare and Irene are both light-skinned enough to pass as white, but only one of them has chosen to cross the colour line and live with the secret hanging over her. Clare believes she had successfully cut herself off from any connection to her past. Married to a racist white man who is oblivious to her African-American heritage, it is vital to her that the truth remains hidden. Irene is living as a middle-class Black woman with her husband and children in Harlem, taking on an important role in her community and embracing her origins • Both women are forced to re-examine their relationships with each other, with their husbands and with the truth, confronting their most closely guarded fears. Nella Larsen's powerful, tragic and acutely observant writing established her as a lodestar of America's Harlem Renaissance

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith • Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil • Clare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she reunites with childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves

«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

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet • From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life • In this international bestseller, Mickael Launay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Launay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects around us to explain what art can reveal about geometry, how Babylonian scholars developed one of the first complex written languages, and how ‘Arabic’ numbers were adopted from India

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

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come • What if intelligent life on earth not only evolved on land, but also in the sea? • Other Minds is a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development over millennia, Other Minds explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods. What kind of intelligence do they possess? And how did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? • Heralded as the ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ when Other Minds first published, Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the underwater world and the concept of sentience to trace the question of inner life back to its roots

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics • ‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’ • One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the mysterious ‘Woman in White’ Anne Catherick comes across Walter Hartright. Chilling, suspenseful and tense in mood, the novel remains as emotive for its readers today as when it was first published

"SAS. Абсолютное руководство по выживанию в любом месте" Джона Уайзмана - это карманный компаньон для искателей приключений. Будьте готовы как на суше, так и на море - от разбивки лагеря и поиска пищи в дикой природе до обеспечения безопасности и самообороны на улицах • Книга на английском языке • The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere • The Collins Gem SAS Survival Guide is the pocket companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. SAS legend John 'Lofty' Wiseman's unrivalled guide will teach you • Preparation - Understanding and assembling latest, most resilient, kit • Navigation - Skills, technologies and techniques to get you through unfamiliar terrain

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

Ботаническая Библия рассказывает историю растений и цветов, начиная с обзора царства растений и основ ботаники, и заканчивая стратегиями целенаправленного садоводства. Последующие главы знакомят с сезонным питанием, целебными свойствами растений и миром ботанического искусства • Книга Сони Эллис "Ботаническая библия. Практическое руководство по дикорастущим и садовым растениям" понравится всем, кто хочет использовать растения и цветы в современной жизни. Это всеобъемлющее руководство охватывает множество интересных тем, содержит старинные иллюстрации наряду с работами современных художников и, несомненно, послужит источником вдохновения для всех, кто интересуется миром природы • Книга на английском языке • The Botanical Bible tells the story of plants and flowers, beginning with an overview of the plant kingdom and the basics of botany, then offering strategies for gardening with purpose