The most striking difference between Othello and Shakespeare\''s other tragedies is its more intimate scale. Because the play focuses on personal rather than public life, Othello\''s private descent into jealous obsession is especially chilling to behold. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare\''s ...
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien''''s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread ...
This title presents a film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, directed by Lynne Ramsay, to premiere at Cannes in May 2011, with UK release in summer 2011. Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, ...
Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray''s fields with his mother. As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion, he is trained into the use of a saddle and whip and sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. Here, he makes many friends including the angry Ginger, the well-meaning ...
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway''''s most beloved works. Since Hemingway''''s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the ...
During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and ''the father of English literature'', ...
Anne Brontë''s first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. In writing the novel, Brontë drew on her ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903–1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his ...
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''''There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.'''' Featuring ''''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'''' and ''''Rip ...
Naughty Dog Studios and Dark Horse proudly present the essential companion to The Last of Us, a richly detailed and compelling game set in a post-pandemic world where humans have become an endangered species. Featuring concept art, character designs, and astonishing settings and landscapes, The Art of ...
A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, Jane Austen''s "Northanger Abbey" is edited with an introduction and notes by Marylin Butler in "Penguin Classics". During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the ...
Around the World in Eighty Days Family and Friends 5 An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills. This six-level course offers a fast-paced syllabus and a wide range of optional resources to support a high number of teaching hours ...
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure -- a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling ...
Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who goes to work for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him and he loves Jane too, but he hides a terrible secret which will bring them both great sadness. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simpli fied novels, film novelizations and original titles ...
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams.Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is a t hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse ...
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 ...
Day of the Predator: the second book in Alex Scarrow''''s exciting TimeRiders series. Liam O''''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ''''Take ...
Romeo Montague was in love with Juliet Capulet. He went over to her. ‘I don’t know who you are’ he said. ‘But I know that I love you.’ ‘You’re very handsome,’ she replied. ‘I think I love you too.’ Romeo kissed Juliet and then they kissed again. They were in love.The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably ...
