Book Four of The Sword of Truth, the series first begun in Wizard''s First Rule, returns listeners to the world of Richard Cypher, a simple woods guide who never dreamed he would be named the Seeker of Truth and become caught up in magic, war, and dangers so extraordinary that the fate of his entire ...
"Gabriel''''s Inferno" is the first in this intoxicating trilogy featuring Gabriel and Julia, following their sensual journey of forbidden love - with all the obsessive yearning of "Twilight" with the intensity of "Fifty Shades of Grey". Two lovers bound by their darkest desires.Professor Gabriel Emerson ...
Discover the planet''s amazing animals with unique LEGO (R) models and maps. Which animal gobbles up 4,000 clams in one meal? Where can you find a snail as big as a baseball? The LEGO Animal Atlas has the answers and a whole lot more. It''s packed with seriously fascinating facts and images of more than ...
Crusoe’s father wants him to be a good guy, but Crusoe wants nothing more than to travel around the world. His first voyage is a disaster! Robinson survives but doesn’t go home and travels to Brazil. Then… At the age of eighteen, Robinson Crusoe, a young Englishman, leaves his family to see the world. ...
A revised edition of Tony Harrison''s award-winning Selected Poems This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison''s poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem ''v.'', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which caused ...
AutorJ. R. R. TolkienVydavateľstvoHarperCollinsVäzba BrožEAN 9780261102736Strán448Rozmery 111 x 178 mm Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. ...
The heartbreaking tale of the doomed lovers Heathcliff and Catherine, Emily Bronte''s gothic masterpiece, "Wuthering Heights", has enthralled readers for more than a century and a half-spawning film and televison adaptations, operas, musicals, and a hit single by British pop superstar Kate Bush. It is ...
Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’ In this Reader you will find: A short biography of Charlotte Brontë | Glossary | Comprehension activities | PET-style activities ...
Partly modelled on his own life--although in no way a direct autobiography--David Copperfield follows a young boy''s life, from his birth in Suffolk, through the trials and tribulations of childhood (including his mother''s death), to his triumphant success as a novelist. The masterful early scenes, ...
This is Joseph Heller''''s first book after CATCH-22, and in it he explores the wartime generation''''s new predicament.as husband, progenitor, provider and survivalist. What happened to all the youthful dreams and those who peopled them? Gone to ruin. Because Heller is an architect of his age, his comments ...
Vynikajúce čítanie pre všetkých, ktorí obdivujú poetiku a jazyk mága svetovej literatúry. In 1933 a sensationalist Argentinian newspaper employed Jorge Luis Borges to produce high-brow cultural commentary. Alongside the high-toned pieces, he also contributed these quirky blood-and-guts tales of gunslingers, ...
A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita.One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire ...
"The Collected Stories" - a stunning volume of William Trevor''s unforgettable short stories. William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as ''the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting ...
Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker star in this comedy horror directed by Kenny Ortega. 300 years after they were sentenced to die in Salem, a trio of witches return to gain their revenge. Terrorising the town\''s trick-or-treaters on Halloween, riding on vacuum cleaners instead of broomsticks, the ...
This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco''s playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. An uncanny combination ...
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and s parks firing in the cylinders.until he meets Donald Shimodaformer ...
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections ...
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a comic masterpice. Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature. with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut\''s funniest satire, ...
This novel is based on the historical occurrence of the appearance of the false messiah Sabbath Zevi and the mass following he generated. While the bare facts of the delusion may be true, I believe that the fleshing out of the characters, their thoughts and behaviour are a misrepresentation. ''''Satan ...
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) a Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) jsou dva nerozluční gangsteři v službách obávaného Marsellusa Wallace (Ving Rhames). Před dokončením jednoho "jobu" prozradí Vincent Julesovi, že Pán Veliký (tedy Marsellus) ho požádal, aby se postaral o jeho sexy manželku Miu (Uma Thurman), ...
