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.’ Jane Eyre is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But she is no ordinary young woman; despite her lonely and unhappy childhood, ...
Gillian Cross\''s brilliant retellings and Neil Packer\''s clever illustrations bring to life Homer\''s Iliad and Odyssey, two of the greatest stories ever told. When first published Walker’s versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey attracted attention both for the quality of the writing and for their amazingly ...
Gerald was a tall giraffe whose neck was long and slim,But his knees were awfully bandy and his legs were rather thin... Gerald the giraffe longs to go to the great Jungle Dance, but how can he join in when he doesn''t know how to tango or two-step? Everyone knows that giraffes can''t dance... or can ...
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel.Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men’s destinies bring ...
On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald''s estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm animals, Mary cultivates the garden, an experiences that ...
Kniha - autor Astrid Lindgren, 192 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná Karl Lion admires his older brother Jonathan, who is brave and strong - things that Karl isn''t. Karl is sick and knows he''s going to die, so Jonathan tells him tales of the afterlife, Nangiyala, to comfort him. But then ...
George Orwell''s chilling fable of Soviet Russia''s brutal dictatorship, "Animal Farm" brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. ''All animals are equal - but some are ...
How do germs spread? Can my body fight germs? and How do medicines help? Children are told to wash their hands and blow their noses to avoid spreading germs, but do they really know what germs are? Th.
