It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.

This title includes introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'Middlemarch' is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. AUTHOR: Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes

«Над пропастью во ржи», также в других переводах — «Ловец на хлебном поле», «Обрыв на краю ржаного поля детства» — роман американского писателя Джерома Сэлинджера.

«Средний пол» — роман американского писателя греческого происхождения Джеффри Евгенидиса, написанный им в Берлине, и получивший Пулитцеровскую премию 2003 года.

«Изумительный мистер Лис» — сказка известного английского писателя Роальда Даля.

В 1956 году, когда была основана Лига La Leche, если мать решила кормить ребенка грудью, а не бутылочками, то она ни в коем случае не могла рассчитывать на всеобщую поддержку своего решения. Хотя врачи той эпохи признавали, что грудное вскармливание было лучшим методом.