Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ''A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ''Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemic, came ...
At the age of six, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi - fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows - takes to him immediately and soon earns his love in return. She adores her life in the mountains, playing ...
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 sparkling debut children\''s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children\''s author in the country, with sparkling new cover look to tie in with later books. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book. ...
''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 ...
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 ...
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson\''s first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette\''s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a ...
''I wonder what will become of her!'' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen''s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover ...
Napsal ho sedmadvacetiletý „rozhněvaný mužâ€ś, kterého vedla potřeba kritizovat a literárně zobrazit dĹŻsledky změny chudinského zákona v roce 1834. Tento zákon zrušil chudobince při jednotlivých farnostech a zavedl centralizovaný systém, který vedl ke korupci a rozkrádání prostředkĹŻ pro chudé a k ...
"The Penguin Classics" edition of Anne Bronte''s "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", her groundbreaking study of a woman''s valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and ...
