`The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life` Victoria HislopWe think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines `western` culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation. This book sets out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms.How did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place, and then define an identity for themselves that is at once Greek and modern This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last 300 years, of building a modern nation on, sometimes literally, the ruins of a vanished civilisation. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and perhaps more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics, it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people and of ideas.
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Merry, dark or magical, these classic tales never fail to inspire and enthral. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of entrancing folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magic beasts and cunning boys. From favourites such as "The Frog-Prince" and "Hansel and Gretel" to the delights of "Ashputtel" or "Old Sultan", all are vivid with timeless mystery.
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The Gulag is Russia`s forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims: how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witness to one of history`s most terrible crimes.
Probably the most famous play in the English language, Hamlet transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man.
Learning that his father has been killed by Claudius, his uncle, Hamlet`s only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlet`s nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the seed of his own destruction.
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The text of this edition is edited by G.B. Harrison and contains notes, a glossary and an introduction. Complete and unabridged. Tekst w jęz. ang.
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