Mark Twain''s great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain''s tale of a boy''s picaresque ...
Fenomén Sovětského svazu nás nepřestává fascinovat ani dlouhá léta po jeho rozpadu, kdy se známá rudá vlajka se srpem a kladivem roztrhala na několik drobných samostatných částí. Trochu možná proto, že impérium zla vlastně nikdy úplně nezaniklo, i když jeho nejvýraznějším dědictvím jsou dodnes citelné ...
The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller, Me Before You. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at ...
AutorJ. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Dixon, Sean DemingVydavateľstvoHarpercollins Children''''s BooksVäzba BrožISBN 978-0007611621Strán144Rozmery 203 x 275 mm A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David ...
This is the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of SHIVER (9781407115009), LINGER (9781407121086) and FOREVER (9781407121116) will love this new quartet! Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will ...
Bram Stoker''s peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Dracula" is edited with notes and an introduction by Maurice Hindle, as well as a preface by Christopher Frayling. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase ...
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon ...
It seems excessive.but that doesn''''t mean it didn''''t happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world''''s greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul "Slash" Hudson was ...
''The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,'' said the Witch; ''so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.'' A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz, where wild ...
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 ancient Greek epic which underpins the whole of western literature, Homer''s "The Iliad" is a timeless evocation of the struggle to retain a sense of honour and virtue amidst the horrors of war. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Martin Hammond. "The Iliad" is the ...
"Oneworld Classics" will include the greatest masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre and will also redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. Psychological study, ghost story, gothic thriller, historical romance, religious ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.'' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the ...
This is a fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess'' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang ''Nadsat'', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell. With a Foreword by Martin Amis ''It is a horrorshow ...
Zombie. Zmutovaná zvířata. Biologické zbraně a chirurgicky vylepšená monstra. Tajné laboratoře a rozsáhlá spiknutí. Zdálo se to nemožné, jenže Jill Valentineová a členové jejího týmu S. T. A. R. S. viděli na vlastní oči, když korporace Umbrella proměnila Raccoon City v jeviště nejzákeřnějších genetických ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward''s manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my ...
Johnny Smith is a seemingly normal guy -- who becomes psychic! He''s an English teacher in a small Maine town called Castlerock, and he''s one of those guys that more straight-laced teachers tend to dislike as a fellow teacher, but the kind''a guy that the kids really love. He''s funny, sincere, sensitive, ...
