В сборник вошли произведения и документы (на языке оригинала) трех американских литераторов-публицистов и просветителей - Б. Франклина, Т. Джефферсона и Т. Пейна.
На английском языке, есть предисловие на русском языке.
As warden of the infamous San Quentin prison in the 1940s, Clinton Duffy presided over 90 state-ordered executions. 88 MEN AND 2 WOMEN – Duffy's account of his 12-year tenure – is an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the incarceration and subsequen...
Серия: The international bestseller 2004 г.; Изд-во: London: Penguin Books
From Publishers Weekly
Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union's labor camps in their more than 60 years of operation. This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's...
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks wi...
Из серии в 9 томах 1753 г.; Изд-во: London: J. Tornton and S. Draper
№ 556-635. 1714-1715.
Аддисон, Джозеф (Addison, Joseph) (1672 - 1719)
Английский поэт, сатирик, ученый, политик. Родился 1 мая 1672 в Эймсбери. В 1709 - 1711 принимал участие в издании просветительского журнала "Болтун" ("Tattler"). В 1711 - 14 совме...