Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. This packed illustrated biography tells the life of Oscar Wilde through ...
What is language?Why do we have it?Why does that matter?Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood.Upe...
Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel ...
'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigati...
The present work is a sociolinguistic study of English and Polish football language, investigated as a special language with broad public appeal, which consists of several situationally-motivated v...
The Language o f Religion, Past and Present presents a collection of articles devoted to sacred language, based on materials from a cycle of interdisciplinary conferences with the participation of ...
The study, "The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women's Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala", addresses the subject of...
A renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire al...
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing...
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes.Stephe...
This is Frederick Forsyth's life in his own words; his highly anticipated autobiography is as thrilling as his fiction. Packed with anecdotes from a life well lived, THE OUTSIDER is an exclusive be...
At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF.At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War.Before he turned thirty, he was i...
Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, a...
A literary quiz for all the family from the writer and presenter of Radio 4's books quiz.Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and th...
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompass...
This study reveals important aspects in the contents of the poetic achievement of Hatif Janabi – the son of the Arab environment with its ancient culture, and at the same time a companion of ...
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge....
Książka dotyczy roli, jaką odgrywa tłumacz w przekładzie czasopism na gruncie polskim. Zagadnienie roli tłumacza zanalizowano na szeroko nakreślonym tle historycznym: od antyku do połowy dwudzieste...
Książka dotyczy roli, jaką odgrywa tłumacz w przekładzie czasopism na gruncie polskim. Zagadnienie roli tłumacza zanalizowano na szeroko nakreślonym tle historycznym: od antyku do połowy dwudzieste...