The rise of Robert Harris as one of the UK''''s premier novelists has been something of a phenomenon. His breakthrough book was, of course, Fatherland, and even though the premise (Germany had won the Second World War and occupied Britain) was not original, the treatment was astonishingly assured. From ...
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. This novel reminds us all of ...
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in ...
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 ...
The hotly-anticipated sequel to SIX OF CROWS, this is Game of Thrones meets Ocean''s Eleven in a fantasy epic from the number 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.
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 ...
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith''s dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.In the present, Sacha knows the world''s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world''s in meltdown - and the real ...
Kathy ist einunddreißig Jahre alt und arbeitet als Betreuerin. Wann immer sie durch England fährt und hinter Pappeln ein halb verborgenes Herrenhaus sieht, muss sie an Hailsham denken, das Internat, in dem sie ihre Kindheit und Jugend verbrachte. Unwillkürlich steigen dann in ihr Erinnerungen an Tommy ...
A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Tag Fantasy In this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style ...
George Orwell''''s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. ''''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'''' Hidden away in the ...
When a merchant steals a rose from the garden of a terrifying beast, his daughter, Beauty, agrees to go to the beast''s palace to save her father''s life. The classic tale of Beauty and the Beast is retold here in a magnificent ''pop-in'' format. Each page has three layers of paper, cut to give the impression ...
The title of this book is Czech Life and Institutions and it was written by Eliška Morkesová. This edition of Czech Life and Institutions is in a Book format. This books publish date is January 1, 1995. It was published by IMPEX and has 166 pages in the book.Dátum vydania: 13.3.1995Vydanie: 1.Väzba: ...
Bursting with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama. Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - right now his life is spinning ...
John Bunyan’s much-loved allegory, telling the story of Christian and his journey to the Celestial City. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan’s masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City ...
Prebieha dotlač, termín vydania dotlače na knižný trh neznámyVäčšina detí miluje knihy od útleho detstva. Prvé knihy – leporelá by mali mať menší formát, tvrdé stránky, ktoré odolajú prípadnému útoku prvých zúbkov a jednoduché veľké ilustrácie. Baby''s very first black and white books Babies je súčasťou ...
This is an exciting storybook with four embedded tracks and a pull-back train toy that will amuse little children again and again. You can pull-back the train to start its ''engine'' then place it on the tracks and watch it zoom across away from the city station, across bridges and fields, over a long ...
This book showcases the best and most humorous quotes from George R.R. Martin\''s favourite character Tyrion Lannister, the worldly, jaded, funny, highly intelligent, cynical, womanizing star of the books. A perfect stocking-filler for every fan of the books, and of HBO\''s award-winning television series. ...
La publication des Misérables suscita dans les milieux littéraires et politiques un tollé général. « Livre dangereux », « livre immonde, inepte ». selon les mots de Lamartine, faisait « trop craindre aux heureux et trop espérer aux malheureux ».Si la critique fut hostile, le peuple salua avec enthousiasme ...
Kniha - 240 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná This No.1 US bestseller encompasses business and self-help, guiding readers to get more satisfaction out of their lives, determining one thing to deliver extraordinary results in every area of life - work, personal, family and spiritual.
