"Oliver Twist" (1838) is one of the best loved and darkest of Dickens'' novels and presents some of the most memorable of Dickens'' great characters, from the rascal antics of street urchin the Artful Dodger, the manipulative seediness of Fagin and the threatening brutality of Bill Sykes, to the kindness ...
An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins ...
Relish the incomparable imagination of Christopher Paolini in this thrilling new collection of stories based in the world of the Inheritance Cycle. It''s been a year since Eragon departed Alagaesia in search of the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders. Now he is struggling with an ...
This sumptuous gift set includes a replica of the very rare first edition of The Hobbit, the only edition where one can now read the original version of the story before Tolkien re-edited it to become the one enjoyed by readers since 1951. The Hobbit was published on 21 September 1937, with a print run ...
Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas\''s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius\''s journey from slave to king\''s assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. Aelin ...
Welcome to the Overlook Hotel. You\''ll never want to leave. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a \''shiner\'', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny\''s visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards ...
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Judgement Day is almost upon us and the world''s going to end in a week... Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it''s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement ...
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus—three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white ...
Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation ...
Kniha - autor Astrid Lindgren, 192 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná Karl Lion admires his older brother Jonathan, who is brave and strong - things that Karl isn''t. Karl is sick and knows he''s going to die, so Jonathan tells him tales of the afterlife, Nangiyala, to comfort him. But then ...
Northern Lights&,nbsp,introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra''s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In&,nbsp,The ...
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and ...
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflect ion tries to take control of him; a couples relationship ...
The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time ...
Cujo is so well paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. ...
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan''s bestselling Percy Jackson series - now with a brand new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can''t tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It''s not easy being a half-blood these ...
