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Появившийся 6 апреля 1943 года в издательстве "Рейнал-Хичкок", Маленький принц говорил по-английски, и только некоторое время спустя благодаря тем же издателям заговорил по-французски. Так кем он был американцем или французом? "Маленький принц" был придуман, нарисован и написан в Соединенных Штатах на протяжении 1942 года. Книга была заказом, она должна была стать рождественской сказкой для амери...

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Wilde's grandon, Merlin Holoand, Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kibertd and Terence Brown. A comprehensive biblio...

How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. Basing his ideas on common sense, Eco shares a vast wealth of literary and historical knowledge, touching on issues that a...

"Acts of Literature," compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection now includes a substantial interview with him on questions of literature, ...

Essays originally presented as Weidenfeld lectures at Oxford, 2002. Contents: The plants of Shakespeare -- Losses and gains -- Translation and reference -- Source vs target -- To see things and texts -- From rewording to translating substance -- From substance to matter -- A conclusion on perfect language and colours. 'Translation is always a shift,not between two languages but between...

It all started in 1965 with a guy riding a whale. The guy was Flip Nicklin’s father, Chuck, and the whale was an unlucky Bryde’s Whale that had gotten caught up in some anchor line. Hoping to free the whale, Chuck and some friends took their boat as near as they could, and, just before they cut it loose, Chuck posed astride it for a photo. That image, carried on wire services nationwide, became...

From their gigs in tiny church halls to multimillion-selling albums--"The Dark Side" "of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," and the rock opera "The Wall"--and elaborate stadium shows, this tome celebrates legendary rock band Pink Floyd. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and rare graphic memorabilia, including posters, advertisements, handbills, and tickets from every era o...

Kate Westaway is one of the world's most accomplished underwater photographers. This book records her amazing experience far out in the Atlantic Ocean - under water - photographing a humpback whale mother and her playful pup. The stunning pictures comprise a timeless narrative of these majestic, beautiful and rare creatures. One of the most fascinating and amazing underwater photography ever...

In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's peo...