Author: Katie Hickman, 477 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
This edition does not include illustrations.
An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.
‘English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty
Author: Thomas Hardy, 310 trang, bìa mềm, trầy gáy chi tiết xem hình
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and
Author: Charles Dickens, 1021 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.
When Arthur Clennam returns
Author: Katie Hickman, 416 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
During the course of the 18th- and 19th-century a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives – and those of other people –
Author: Charles Dickens, 817 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Nicholas is a young man of impetuous temper and little or no experience, who saves his family from dire misfortune at the hands of his villainous uncle. Mixing comedy and horror, melodrama and acid satire, Dickens depicts a world in which
Author: Justin Pollard, 320 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra
Author: Pat Morgan, 144 trang, bìa cứng, tình trạng tốt
In 1914 the world engaged in global conflict that was to scar human history and redefine the meaning of the word "war". Known as the Great War, decades of burgeoning imperialism and the formation of complex alliances brought the world's great
Author: Tommy Sancton, 300 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
Finally -- the ultimate investigation and full story of what really happened and why, by the two Time magazine Paris-based correspondents who have covered the case from the beginningWith privileged access to hundreds of pages of documents and
Author: Jonathan Bastable, 144 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
This is a collection of stories exploring the less well-trodden byways of Britain's long history of conflicts. From the Romans vs Britons to the war on terror, it uncovers the heroic, tragic and often peculiar facts behind some
Author: Daniel Defoe, 295 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Robinson Cruse has captured the imagination of countless readers with its vivid evocation of one man’s survival on a remote island, far from the civilization he knows.
Thought to be one of the first English novels,
Robinson Crusoe is the timeless story of
Author: Stephen Collins, 384 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
New Updated Edition. The Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch, Charles
Author: John Buchan, 204 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion in winning the war. The book opens in November 1915, with Hannay
Author: Dominic Frisby, 304trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Following the economic crisis of 2008, the website ‘’ was registered by a mysterious computer programmer called Satoshi Nakamoto. A new form of money was born: electronic cash. Does Bitcoin have the potential to change how the world transacts financially? Or is
Author: Emily Bronte, 373 trang, bìa mềm, trầy gáy chi tiết xem hình
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never
Author: Bruce P. Lenman, 958 trang, bìa mềm, bị trầy gáy chi tiết xem hình
This new edition of the "Chambers Dictionary of World History" contains comprehensive coverage of the key figures and events of world history. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent world events, it contains an in depth
Author: Robert ARP, 1267 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
An awe-inspiring overview of the development of human knowledge over the centuries!
Part of the highly successful '1001' series which have sold over a million copies in the UK alone 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think offers not only a