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В этом сборнике – трогательные или забавные рождественские рассказы О. Генри, Джерома К. Джерома, Стивена Ликока, Саки, берущие за душу сказки Оскара Уайльда. Тексты популярных рождественских гимнов и стихотворений создадут праздничное настроение и н…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II – Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1st Baron Macaulay) <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in …

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The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disr…

This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters, and in this story the leading actors are …

In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief …