Издание полностью на английском языке. Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries worth of French historical facts bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066...
339 Руб.
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust the king, let alone guillotine him. But things quickly escalated until there was no turning back. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks at what went wrong and why France would be better off if they had kept their monarchy.
2530 Руб.
In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance. And in a maze of tunnels under the trenches he will fight for everything he has known and loved. An epic of love, death and redemption, Birdsong has moved millions of readers all over the world to become a contemporary classic.
2384 Руб.
From the author of The Shining, Carrie and The Dead Zone, Stephen King's mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. Издание полностью на английском языке.
434 Руб.
Издание на английском языке. The Piano Books for the Young Musician series is intended for the first years of training and is written both for the student and the teacher. It is based on the teaching methods of the author who, making good use of modern 20th-century methodology in musical training, has used her methods throug the many years of her teaching practice.
242 Руб.
Издание на английском языке. The Piano Books for the Young Musician series is intended for the first years of training and is written both for the student and the teacher. It is based on the teaching methods of the author who, making good use of modern 20th-century methodology in musical training, has used her methods throug the many years of her teaching practice.
242 Руб.
Издание полностью на английском языке. Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.
749 Руб.
We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before. Moving through the rhythm of the day, this astonishing guide illuminates the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and Ruth will show you how. If you liked A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England or 1000 Years of Annoying the French, you will love this book.
2590 Руб.
Издание полностью на английском языке. The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughte.
2304 Руб.
Издание полностью на английском языке. There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs Ascher in Andover, В is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, С is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal mistake...
1087 Руб.
From The 400 Blows to Jules and Jim to The Last Metro, Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) practically defined the French cinema of his era and was one of the founders of the New Wave which took the industry by storm in the late 1950s. His endlessly touching and romantic films-always tinged by a touch of reflective sadness-made him one of France`s favorite and most successful directors. This book traces Truffaut`s career and includes rare images drawn from his archives. About the author: Robert Ingram has lectured in French language, literature, and film at the universities of Wolverhampton and Oxford. With Diana Holmes, he co-authored Francois Truffaut (1998) and jointly edits Manchester University Press`s acclaimed French Film Director series. Издание на английском языке.
1528 Руб.
Издание полностью на английском языке. The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegraph" about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over the years. In this book, he makes an impassioned case for an end to the sloppiness that has become such a hallmark of everyday speech and writing.
3856 Руб.
Издание полностью на английском языке. Meet Nicholas: the world's best-loved French school boy. His books have been constant best-sellers in France and across Europe for over fifty years, and are fast becoming as popular in the English-speaking world. Nicholas's adventures and exploits are brought to life by Rene Goscinny, the author of Asterix, and world-renowned illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempe. Whether at home or at school, Nicholas and his friends are caught up in hilarious escapades that always result in confusion - at least for their parents and teachers. Classic children's fiction to be read, re-read, and loved forever.
757 Руб.
Stephen Crane's American Civil War masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest of all war novels. Two days of fighting on a woodland battlefield are focused through the excited senses of a raw Union recruit, Henry Fleming. Dreaming of heroism, but shamefully discovering his own mortal fear of danger and death - and of fear itself - he flees from his first encounter with Confederate troops. But when he is drawn back into the battle he wins by accident his 'red badge', the wound that signifies initiation into manhood and possession of courage to join the world of men. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
125 Руб.
The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.
3716 Руб.
Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX-XX Centuries, which has now been translated into English, is part of series of substantial scholary collection catalogues of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. One of a museum's most important tasks is to disclose its collection conscientiously and responsibly, a goal the Pushkin State Museum's staff has been steadily realising for years now. Издание на английском языке.
1050 Руб.