The book tells of the rise and short-lived greatness of the House of Hauteville. About how in one generation the sons of Tancred turned from small landowners...

The book tells how, in search of glory and fortune, the Normans arrived in the south of Italy, where Sicily languished under the rule of the Saracens, torn a...

Gwyn Jones's book is dedicated to the discovery and settlement of the Northwest Atlantic. The Normans were unsurpassed sailors and were ahead of other Europe...

Gwyn Jones's book is dedicated to the discovery and settlement of the Northwest Atlantic. The Normans were unsurpassed sailors and were ahead of other Europe...

The Beat movement became a notable event not only in the literary, but also in the socio-political life of the United States in the 50s of the 20th century; ...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who did not publish a single book during his lifetime, became a beacon and reference point for an entire genre, an idol of both th...

This book was prepared by the University of Oxford and is a deep, serious and at the same time fascinating study of the centuries-old history of the crusadin...

"Five Centuries of British Poetic Portraiture" is essentially a small anthology of various poetic genres, comparable to some genres of portraiture. Translato...

The anthology includes twenty-five stories by English-language authors translated by Irina Gurova. “Arrogant Robot” and “Mechanical Ego” ... “Battle” and “Un...

This is the age of the Telnarians. Their vast, corrupt empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But, their corruption and brutality...

This second volume of the Alien Sex anthology series brings together authors Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabet...