Historia y biografías
White Death
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
Castagnetti, a bee-keeping private detective, is hired by a businessman to find out who set fire to his car and why. It seems like a dead-end case, nothing more than an instance of mindless vandalism. But before long the businessman is receiving threatening phone calls, his factory is burnt to the (...)
Memorial
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its nobility , as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its bright unbearable reality (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped (...)
Explaining Hitler
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era. Ron Rosenbaum s Explaining Hitler investigates the meanings and motivations people (...)
A Writer's World
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century. Ranging from New York to Venice, and the Middle East to South Africa, Jan Morris was a witness to such (...)
Nature's Engraver
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
At the end of the 18th-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick s History of British Birds marked the moment, the first field-guide for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered (...)
Cavalier
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to (...)
The Blue Moment
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.'Miles Davis s Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. (...)
Bloodland
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US (...)
The Memsahibs
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down (...)
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
epub
Adobe Drm
Impresión no pemitida
Copiar/Pegar no permitido
Nº de dispositivos permitidos ilimitado
When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, (...)