This beautiful hardback Ladybird edition of The Ugly Duckling is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The story is sensitively retold, following the little duckling as he leaves his family and heads off into the great unknown all alone. Other ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'The better part of valour is discretion.’.King Henry IV’s son, Prince Harry is quick-witted yet idle and irresponsible and lives a roguish existence keeping dubious company. However, when the kingdom is threatened, ...
From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of ''The Great Gatsby'' - now a major film - and including ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald depicts the Roaring Twenties as he lived them. He masterfully blends accounts of flappers and the smart set with ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''''Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow Than fate would have them bear.'''' Attributed to ...
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy''s "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the ...
‘Why can\''t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’ Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly perfect yet brittle relationship of the Ashburnhams soon gives way to unhappiness and betrayal, ...
Canadians have enjoyed a long history of encounters with Shakespeare, from the visual arts to creative new adaptations, from traditional and nontraditional interpretations to distinguished critical scholarship. We have in over two centuries remade Shakespeare in ways that are distinctly Canadian. The ...
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 ...
An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills. This six-level course offers a fast-paced syllabus and a wide range of optional resources to support a high number of teaching hours per week. The series starts with an optional pre-school ...
Novela indického autora Sumita Mullicka, která vychází ve dvojjazyčném česko-anglickém vydání, je prvním vykročením tohoto zajímavého spisovatele mezi české čtenáře. Aby mohl být člověk píšícím rebelem, musí mít fantazii. Musí být rebelem s fantazií. Sumit Mullick je takovouto osobností. Zavádí nás do ...
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, ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The Professor’ is Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation she ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''The quality of mercy is not strain''d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven''. Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend ...
''''the first and greatest of English detective novels'''' T.S.Eliot A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city ...
During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and ''the father of English literature'', ...
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 ...
Grimm''s Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature: ''Little Red Riding Hood,'' ''Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Cinderella'', ...
With the perennial popularity of classic writers like Charlotte Bronte and Lewis Carroll, Baby Lit is a fashionable way to introduce your toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Jennifer Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar''s Alison Oliver, Little ...
William Makepeace Thackeray''s Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey.No one ...
A powerful study of bigotry, persecution, obsession and hypocrisy in early American society, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne''s. "The Scarlet Letter" contains an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century ...
