In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of `twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.
ISBN: 978-0-14-138986-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Want to know: • What vile Victorian parents called their children? • Who had a gruesome glass eye for every occasion? • When the first public loo was flushed? Discover all the foul facts about the Vile Victorians - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-0-439-94404-5
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
It’s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: • Why burglars were scared of bogies? • Which poet said he ate an ape? • How a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle? Discover all the foul facts about the Villainous Victorians – all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-407104-31-7
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
On 20 January 1942, the most murderous meeting in history took place. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Germany, it summoned top Nazi officials to a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee in order to clarify ‘the Final Solution of the Jewish question’. They ate good food, drank cognac and smoked cigars – and in less than two hours had effectively sentenced six million people to death. Only one set of minutes from this secret meeting survived, and argument has raged over its contents. Now Mark Roseman brilliantly unravels the macabre mystery of what has been called ‘the most shameful document of modern history’.
ISBN: 978-0-14-100395-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were turned into a ballet? It`s all you need to know about Villains - all the gore and more.
ISBN: 978-1-407103-05-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The novel Villette reflects her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy`s struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte`s strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07911-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
