When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he\''s not alone. He\''s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don\''t know why or how they came to ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unforgettable; they have touched the lives of readers across the globe and earned him countless awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the wake of the author''s ...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the ...
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the ...
Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A PUFFIN BOOK. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is a classic fantasy adventure. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux ...
The House of Hades&,nbsp,is the fourth book in the bestselling Heroes of Olympus series, set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson.The stakes have never been higher. If Percy Jackson and Annabeth fail in their quest, there''ll be hell on Earth. Literally.Wandering the deadly realm of Tartarus, ...
Twelve classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales enchantingly illustrated and specially retold for younger readers. Includes the best-loved characters of ‘Thumbelina’ ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’, as well as a biography of Hans Christian Andersen. Beautifully bound in a padded hardback, ...
AutorPatrik Rothfuss VydavateľstvoGollancz VäzbaBrož Strán1002 ISBN 9780575081437 Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN''''S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R. R. Martin''''s ...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. "The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" Jane Austen''s novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her ...
Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the 20th century), all—well almost all—fully clothed", ...
In this witty story of love and marriage, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love, but will they marry? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading ...
From the author of The Architect''s Apprentice and Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak''s compelling and profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life and love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love.Ella Rubinstein has a husband, ...
By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell''''s bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy''''s 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, ...
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther''s life begins to slide ...