A REDISCOVERED WORK BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NOVELISTS OF THE 1930S 'One of the most important novelists of our day' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (1938) Virginia Hutton embarks upon an experiment. She will take an ape and raise it as a human child. She purchases an infant orangutan and names him Appius. She clothes him, feeds him, and puts him to bed in a cot every night. As Appius grows older, she teaches him to dress himself, to speak, to read, to stand and walk up straight, to eat his m...

La socióloga Virginia Hutton se muda al campo para embarcarse en un ambicioso experimento: criar a un bebé orangután como si se tratara de un niño. Lo instala en una habitación infantil de muebles blancos y empieza un cuaderno en el que cada día anotará los avances. Appius resulta ser un aprendiz dócil que, poco a poco, comienza a mantenerse erguido y caminar, decir palabras, leer, e incluso a sentarse a la mesa y usar cuchillo y tenedor.Pasan los años, sin embargo, y cada cierto ti...

Ein Menschenaffe, der sich als Mensch wiederfindet – der Roman einer faszinierenden Metamorphose in deutscher ErstübersetzungExklusive Manesse-Entdeckung einer britischen Klassikerin der ModerneVirginia Hutton, eine studierte Soziologin, lässt sich auf ein spektakuläres Experiment ein: Sie zieht einen Orang-Utan-Säugling als Menschenkind auf. Sie wickelt ihn, füttert ihn mit der Flasche, singt ihn in den Schlaf. Virginia ist für ihren Schüt...

We are happy to reissue Sir George Trevelyans classic New Age trilogy; A Vision of the Aquarian Age, Operation Redemption, and Exploration into God. After George transitioned in 1996, the British newspaper, The Times obituary read, AN ELDER statesman of the New Age movement, Sir George Trevelyan saw the mission of his later years as an 'exploration into God'. From the moment when in 1942 he first tagged along to a lecture given by one of Rudolph Steiner's students "I have no doubt", he later...

We are happy to reissue Sir George Trevelyans classic New Age trilogy; A Vision of the Aquarian Age, Operation Redemption, and Exploration into God. After George transitioned in 1996, The Times obituary read, AN ELDER statesman of the New Age movement, Sir George Trevelyan saw the mission of his later years as an 'exploration into God'. From the moment when in 1942 he first tagged along to a lecture given by one of Rudolph Steiner's students "I have no doubt", he later said, "that this event...

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national driv...

"One of the finest and most delightful writers in romance." –Mary Jo Putney The traditional Regency classic from New York Times bestseller Loretta Chase is back…A Comedy of Manners…Her father's prodigal ways have forced the extremely lovely Alexandra Ashmore into an engagement with a strange man in a strange land: a man blind to the effect her unearthly beauty has on other men, and which has earned her the title "the English Witch"! So when she's kidnapped by another love-struck suitor, Al...

The traditional Regency classic from New York Times bestseller Loretta Chase is back…At the advanced age of 26, the independent, wealthy and imminently practical Isabella Latham has no expectation of marriage. But, good-hearted and dutiful, Isabella accompanies her two young country cousins to oversee their London debut...only to find that it's she who is attracting suitors...all of whom do seem to have quite an excess of creditors!There's the sinfully sexy Basil Trevelyan, a rake through ...

早期部落社會到世界強權，封建割據到民主憲政政治制度演進、民族融合與文化變遷，不僅僅是對英國歷史的概述！【歷史的縮影】本書涵蓋從不列顛的早期居民、羅馬時期的影響、盎格魯-撒克遜人的到來，到諾曼征服、都鐸王朝、光榮革命、工業革命，以及現代英國的崛起。以簡潔的敘事方式，呈現英國如何從分裂的部落社會演變為世界強權，並在政治、文化、經濟等領域對世界產生深遠影響。【民族的交融與英國的形成】英國的歷史是一部民族融合與文化衝突的史詩。最早的不列顛住民是伊比利人與凱爾特人，他們的文化在羅馬統治下發生變革，奠定了日後不列顛的發展基礎。然而，隨著羅馬帝國的衰退，盎格魯-撒克遜人、維京人接連入侵，改變了英國的政治與社會結構。西元1066年的諾曼征服是英國歷史的關鍵轉折點，帶來了中央集權的統治模式，並深刻影響英國的法律制度與語言發展。【從封建制度到憲政傳統】中世紀英國經歷了封建制度的建立與發展，並逐步向中央集權演進。在約翰王統治時期，貴族勢力興起，促成了西元1215年《大憲章》的簽訂，奠定了限制王...

**A New York Times Best Thriller of 2025Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil."I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and didn’t want it to end. . . An extraordinary, exquisitely written debut." --Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Here One Moment**At...

Afin d’échapper à sa modeste condition, Ann Lovell se fait engager comme préceptrice pour s’occuper de Justin et Robert Trevelyan, deux garçonnets de 7 et 5 ans, qui vivent avec leur père. Leur mère, Francesca, est morte dans des circonstances étranges. L’atmosphère qui règne dans le manoir est sombre et pesante ; toute joie de vivre a déserté les lieux. Et Benedict Trevelyan n’est-il pas d’autant plus dangereux qu’il est si séduisant ? N’est-ce pas ce qu’essaie de lui dire le fantôme de l...

Alix, dix ans bientôt onze, passe les vacances d’été sur la côte avec ses parents et sa grande sœur. Derrière leur moche bungalow de location, Bob, la soixantaine ventripotente, les observe sournoisement de sa terrasse. Le chemin de la plage bordée de dunes sauvages longe un lagon peu engageant. L’ambiance chair de poule, associée aux comportements indéchiffrables des adultes, génère une tension palpable. Son voisin Kahu entraîne Alix à la recherche de Charlotte, une ado disparue deux ans ...