"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 ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.'' A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola ...
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an ''ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. ...
Three children and their mother move to a new home because their father gets sent away. They are sad at the beginning of their new life, but they make a new friend along the way and live a lot of adventures.Three children go to live in the country. Their house is near a train station. They go there with ...
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert''s legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II - Joanne K. Rowlingová.Vydavateľ: Little Brown Book, Väzba: Knihy viazané, Rok vydania: 2016.The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne. Based on an original ...
Build 22 of the strongest and bravest superheroes in the galaxy with this exciting activity book. There are ten pages of stickers of masks, wings, armour and ca….
A fun, thriller of an adventure told in words and pictures from master storyteller, Philip Pullman, including beautiful cover illustration by Peter Bailey and sumptuous illustrations throughout by David Mostyn. Rose and Lily and their little brother Ned live in an orphanage - a terrible place, where ...
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 ...
