The Double Tongue. Introduced by Bettany Hughes, Main, Paperback - William Golding

Meet the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece in this transporting tale of the classical world by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of th...

William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her beli...

Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.Publisher: Fa...

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age, from the radical Nobel Laureate and author...

The epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.' Sunday Times'Golding writes the past as present [wit...

Introduced by Annie Proulx. lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by th...

Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece. 'Wizardry of the first order.' Observer'Terrify...

Golding seduces us, transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.' Nicola Barker'The most powerful, and strangest, of all Golding's novels, and one of th...

One man's vision of erecting a magnificent cathedral spire heralds apocalypse in this epic tale of obsession by the radical Nobel Laureate and auth...

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country...

An account of Jane Austen's journey into 'the true art of letter writing'. Penelope Hughes-Hallett celebrates a selection of Austen's correspondenc...

Subtitled, }Socrates, Athens & The Search For The Good Life{. A lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates, from the author of the bes...

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by William B...

The }Sunday Times{ bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest cities. Hughes takes the reader on a dazzling journey through the history a...

A vivid history of the ancient goddess Venus by the bestselling historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes

the pin-up of Romantic artists.Focusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany ...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in...

Reducere. Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city...

Reducere. • Autor distins cu Premiul Nobel pentru literatura Romanul Imparatul mustelor , devenit un clasic al secolului XX, continua sa aiba un ecou rareori...

Reducere. For 3, 000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.I...

From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy and brutish Jack, each of the boys attempts to establish control as the reality- a...

Reducere. A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from ...

Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears onl...

The three short novels in this collection, The Scorpion God, show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. And 'Envoy Extraordinary' is ...

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilf...

Three sets of Bettany twins: Madge and Dick, Peggy and Rix, Maeve and Maurice. One Chalet School, the pivot around which their lives revolve. And a...

The second volume of William Golding's Sea TrilogyIn a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Au...

The third volume of William Golding's Sea TrilogyA decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off c...

The story of the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic, issued into the launch list of }Faber ...

Reducere. A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New Yo...

Reducere. The book Alcibiades the Schoolboy was originally written in Italian, in 1630, and then translated into French by, perhaps, douard Cl der. Due to th...

Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.

Piramida - William Golding

Suntem in Anglia unui veac de mult apus, pe cand legaturile dintre muritori si divinitate se masoara in grandoarea lacasurilor de cult. Prelatul Jo...

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Turnul - William Golding

First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. In compilin...

In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of.Publish...

Reducere. „Compact si plin de vigoare… O poveste captivanta.“ - The New York Times Book Review„Golding a fost un scriitor […] cu o minunata vocatie epopeica....

Reducere. Cartea de fata, un roman profund, cu tenta autobiografica, ilustreaza eforturile unui tanar care incearca sa-si gasesca drumul, sa-si contureze pro...