Сьюзен Хилл4.2 Эта книга наряду с "Повелителем мух" У. Голдинга - эталонный образец британского психологического реализма XX века.
Роман, тонко, точно и беспощадно исследующий детскую душу. Война двух мальчишек - Чарльза и Эдмунда - за право "единоличного владения" руинами средневекового замка.
Начинается она почти как игра. Но постепенно эта полудетская игра становится все более жестокой, превращается в настоящую феодальную распрю двух маленьких "властителей"...
Майкл Хастингс0.0 A wonderfully vivid novel of fact, this is the tragic love story of Tussy Marx and Edward Aveling. Karl Marx's youngest daughter was bound by duty and by love - duty to her famous father and love for an infamous charmer.
Richard Barber0.0 The concept of chivalry is one of the central ideas of the medieval world, linking the practicalities of warfare to the highest levels of literary and religious idealism. One of the most elusive aspects of chivalry is its relationship with Christian belief, and this study draws parallels between the two, showing how, from the Church's changing attitude to war as reflected in the Crusades, the military orders emerged: Templars, Hospitallers and others - religious chivalry in action. The book also discusses how chivalry played its part in the realm of politics, the ideals of chivalry being clearly seen in the secular orders of knighthood founded by the princes of Western Europe, binding their allies to them with patronage and reward. First published in 1970, the book has been extensively revised to take account of research during the last 25 years.
