In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother’s home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself ...
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with emigre Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner\''s.
In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlah Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World--forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, ...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is Jonathan Safran Foer''s heartrending New York novel In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key.The key belonged to his father, he''s sure of that. But which of New York''s 162 million locks does it ...
The title of this book is Czech Life and Institutions and it was written by Eliška Morkesová. This edition of Czech Life and Institutions is in a Book format. This books publish date is January 1, 1995. It was published by IMPEX and has 166 pages in the book.Dátum vydania: 13.3.1995Vydanie: 1.Väzba: ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear." Edward Prendick, ...
"Oliver Twist" (1838) is one of the best loved and darkest of Dickens'' novels and presents some of the most memorable of Dickens'' great characters, from the rascal antics of street urchin the Artful Dodger, the manipulative seediness of Fagin and the threatening brutality of Bill Sykes, to the kindness ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire ...
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley''s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including ...
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A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley''s "Frankenstein" leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice ...
Charlotte Brontë leghíresebb regénye, a Jane Eyre rengeteget elárul szerzőjéről: életrajzi elemekből építi fel Jane gyermekkorának keserves éveit, és lelke legmélyéből veszi hősnőjének törhetetlen, makacs jellemét is. A regény romantikus cselekménye és érzelmessége révén már első megjelenésekor nagy ...
Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. In this Reader you will find: Information about Virginia Woolf life | Sections focusing on background and context | Glossary | Comprehension activities Tags Love | ...
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo''s powerful novel of ''imagination, caprice and fantasy'' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''''The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.'''' Scientist Pierre ...
The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American novel, telling the story of four sisters: independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; and precocious, beautiful Amy, the baby of the family. The charming story of these four "little women" and their wise and patient mother ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.'' In Verne''s science-fiction ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succčs de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange ...