Thomas war sicher, dass sein Entkommen aus dem Labyrinth das Wiedererlangen seines alten Lebens bedeuten würde, nicht nur für sich, auch für die Gladers. Doch hatte keiner geahnt, wie die Welt draußen inzwischen aussah: Die Erde ein Schlachtfeld, auf der Cranks, von einem mörderischen Virus heimgesuchte ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,'' said the Spirit. ''Look upon me!'' A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens'' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching ...
Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt''''s novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college ...
Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn''s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, ''Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' is Truman Capote''s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in ''Penguin Modern Classics''. It''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from ...
"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 ...
The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller, Me Before You. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at ...
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman''s first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It''s special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Descr ibed by some as the new Alice in Wonderland, Coraline ...
AutorJ. R. R. TolkienVydavateľstvoHarperCollinsVäzba BrožEAN 9780261102736Strán448Rozmery 111 x 178 mm Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. ...
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then he dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, ...
''''Investigating other peoples tragedies and cock-ups and misfortunes was all he knew. He was used to being a voyeur, the outsider looking in, and nothing, but nothing, that anyone did surprised him any more. Yet despite everything hed seen and d one, inside Jackson there remained a belief a small, ...
The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist''s own stroke led to enlightenment. On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left ...
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to ...
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ...
