Линн Трасс

By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself and just as powerful. The scene: a cottage on the coast on a windy evening. Inside, a room with curtains drawn. Tea has just been made. A kettle still steams. Under a pool of yellow light, two figures face each othe...

In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting ′Maud′ to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and; the mismatched couple, actress Ellen Terry and painter G. F. Watts are thrown into the company of the remarkable Lorenzo Fowler, the American phrenologist, and his...

Книга посвящена истории и основным правилам английской пунктуации. Написанная шутливо и занимательно, она содержит множество примеров неправильной пунктуации и забавных историй, связанных со знаками препинания. Представляет интерес для всех изучающих английский язык, независимо от уровня их знаний. Со времени выхода в свет на английском языке в 2004 году была переведена на семь языков и завоевала ...