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Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulay's wittiest satires. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.\n\nThis bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the book's first publication in 1967.

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulay's wittiest satires. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.\n\nThis bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the book's first publication in 1967.

Grande albo dalle tavole in bianco e nero, ricco di dettagli e particolari, per conoscere, scoprire e ammirare i grandi monumenti creati dall'uomo. La storia delle piramidi, come furono costruite e i segreti meccanismi che celano, i dipinti e le maestose tombe dei faraoni in grandi e dettagliate tavole da ammirare in tutto il loro splendore. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

Grande albo dalle tavole in bianco e nero, ricco di dettagli e particolari, per conoscere, scoprire e ammirare i grandi monumenti creati dall'uomo. Fulcro della vita nel Medioevo, il castello è tutt'ora un edificio dal grande fascino. Con le sue illustrazioni dettagliate, Macaulay racconta come venivano progettati e costruiti i castelli e i villaggi medievali. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

Grande albo dalle tavole in bianco e nero, ricco di dettagli e particolari, per conoscere, scoprire e ammirare i grandi monumenti creati dall'uomo. La storia delle piramidi, come furono costruite e i segreti meccanismi che celano, i dipinti e le maestose tombe dei faraoni in grandi e dettagliate tavole da ammirare in tutto il loro splendore. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

Grande albo dalle tavole in bianco e nero, ricco di dettagli e particolari, per conoscere, scoprire e ammirare i grandi monumenti creati dall'uomo. Fulcro della vita nel Medioevo, il castello è tutt'ora un edificio dal grande fascino. Con le sue illustrazioni dettagliate, Macaulay racconta come venivano progettati e costruiti i castelli e i villaggi medievali. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville celebrating her 43rd birthday and contemplating middle age now that her children are grown. Her mother, in her sixties, seeks answers to her melancholy in Freudianism. Her sister, Nan, 33, a writer who has hitherto led a single and carefree life in London, experiences the loss of love and with it her plan for the future. And Neville's principled daughter Gerda, who is determined not to follow her mother's generation into the institute of marriage, finds herself at an impasse with the man she loves.

Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville celebrating her 43rd birthday and contemplating middle age now that her children are grown. Her mother, in her sixties, seeks answers to her melancholy in Freudianism. Her sister, Nan, 33, a writer who has hitherto led a single and carefree life in London, experiences the loss of love and with it her plan for the future. And Neville's principled daughter Gerda, who is determined not to follow her mother's generation into the institute of marriage, finds herself at an impasse with the man she loves.

'Hello Computer' is a story of a working-class girl who begins a life-long love affair with technology after seeing a computer for the first time in 1967. Her journey takes us through exciting times and epic events, from the dawn of the internet to the dotcom boom, from punch cards to the raspberry pi and virtual worlds. \nLinda shares her experiences of computing through real life stories where systems are designed to make a difference to people's lives. Demonstrating that although technology changes constantly, fundamentally, people don't change that much. \nAgainst a backdrop of unspoken bias the story captures the struggles faced by many young women, then and now. It is positive, heart-warming and full of hope that women will become more influential within tech. \nA story of ambition, passion and programming, inspirational for future generations of women and girls in STEM.

Johnny e Jane Potter, fratelli gemelli, studiano a Oxford per realizzare le proprie ambizioni letterarie. Intelligenti, di bell'aspetto, sportivi, snob, i due, divisi da una reciproca gelosia, sono però uniti da un profondo disprezzo per i giornali diretti dal padre e per i romanzi stucchevoli e sentimentali scritti dalla madre. Per i due ragazzi, la famiglia incarna alla perfezione quel misto di sete di ricchezza e puerilità, prosopopea e dabbenaggine, belle facciate e brutti interni proprio dell'inglese tipico. Questo è il \"potterismo\", spietata parodia dell'etica britannica contro cui Johnny e Jane lanciano il loro, forse vittorioso, grido di ribellione. Il romanzo di Rose Macaulay, tra le più originali autrici della letteratura inglese, segue la loro vita attraverso gli anni della prima guerra mondiale e in quelli immediatamente successivi. Ogni pagina è un piccolo quadro, a volte aspro a volte scanzonato, ma sempre sincero nel mostrare il vero volto dei personaggi che popolano il romanzo. Un'autenticità spregiudicata ma profondamente umana, che ha reso i Potter il simbolo più rappresentativo della borghesia europea nella prima metà del novecento.

'Hello Computer' is a story of a working-class girl who begins a life-long love affair with technology after seeing a computer for the first time in 1967. Her journey takes us through exciting times and epic events, from the dawn of the internet to the dotcom boom, from punch cards to the raspberry pi and virtual worlds. \nLinda shares her experiences of computing through real life stories where systems are designed to make a difference to people's lives. Demonstrating that although technology changes constantly, fundamentally, people don't change that much. \nAgainst a backdrop of unspoken bias the story captures the struggles faced by many young women, then and now. It is positive, heart-warming and full of hope that women will become more influential within tech. \nA story of ambition, passion and programming, inspirational for future generations of women and girls in STEM.

It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Having grown up in the sunshine of Provence, allowed to run wild with the Maquis, experienced collaboration, betrayal and death, Barbary finds it hard to adjust to the drab austerity of postwar London life.\n\nConfused and unhappy, she discovers one day the flowering wastes around St Paul's. Here, in the bombed heart of London, she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.

It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Having grown up in the sunshine of Provence, allowed to run wild with the Maquis, experienced collaboration, betrayal and death, Barbary finds it hard to adjust to the drab austerity of postwar London life.\n\nConfused and unhappy, she discovers one day the flowering wastes around St Paul's. Here, in the bombed heart of London, she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.

Personal Pleasures si presenta come un’antologia di saggi che fanno parte dell’ampia produzione non narrativa di Rose Macaulay, scrittrice inglese nota per i suoi romanzi. I sessanta brevi scritti di cui si compone sono organizzati in ordine alfabetico, da Abroad a Writing, e sono proposti come riflessioni personali, dal tono apparentemente colloquiale. Si tratta di composizioni ricche di humour e allusioni colte, con frequenti rimandi a Shakespeare e citazioni da poeti inglesi del Cinque-Seicento, dalla mitologia greca, da Cicerone e Montaigne, offerti sempre in forma leggera, mai paludata. Questo è un testo “ai margini” dei generi letterari, tra la saggistica, l’autobiografia e il racconto; il gusto di Macaulay per le parole e l’amore per la lingua inglese non emergono soltanto dallo stile brillante, ma anche dai termini desueti e dai numerosi neologismi che contribuiscono al suo carattere erudito e arguto, nonché dalla vena poetica che l’attraversa.

Personal Pleasures si presenta come un’antologia di saggi che fanno parte dell’ampia produzione non narrativa di Rose Macaulay, scrittrice inglese nota per i suoi romanzi. I sessanta brevi scritti di cui si compone sono organizzati in ordine alfabetico, da Abroad a Writing, e sono proposti come riflessioni personali, dal tono apparentemente colloquiale. Si tratta di composizioni ricche di humour e allusioni colte, con frequenti rimandi a Shakespeare e citazioni da poeti inglesi del Cinque-Seicento, dalla mitologia greca, da Cicerone e Montaigne, offerti sempre in forma leggera, mai paludata. Questo è un testo “ai margini” dei generi letterari, tra la saggistica, l’autobiografia e il racconto; il gusto di Macaulay per le parole e l’amore per la lingua inglese non emergono soltanto dallo stile brillante, ma anche dai termini desueti e dai numerosi neologismi che contribuiscono al suo carattere erudito e arguto, nonché dalla vena poetica che l’attraversa.

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated into most European languages. Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concluding at the end of the reign of William III in 1702, it illuminates a time of deep struggle throughout Britain and Ireland in vivid and compelling prose. But while Macaulay offers a gripping narrative, and draws on a wide range of sources including historical accounts and creative literature, his enduring success also owes a great deal to his astonishing ability to grasp, and explain, the political reality that has always underpinned social change.