Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother''s medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves" you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.".
''''you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret.'''' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip ...
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 ...
Charlotte Brontë leghíresebb regénye, a Jane Eyre rengeteget elárul szerzőjéről: életrajzi elemekből építi fel Jane gyermekkorának keserves éveit, és lelke legmélyéből veszi hősnőjének törhetetlen, makacs jellemét is. A regény romantikus cselekménye és érzelmessége révén már első megjelenésekor nagy ...
Jedna z vrcholných tragédií Williama Shakespeara je drama zločinu, svědomí a trestu a divadelní sonda do hlubin lidské duše, z nichž se rodí zlo. Macbeth, skotský šlechtic a hrdina, člověk obddivovaný a uctívaný všemi, v této hře podlehne ctižádosti a touze po moci natolik, že se dopustí zločinu nejtěžšího ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.'' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as ...
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ''A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ''Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemic, came ...
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 ...
Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. ...
Treasure Island is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold”. Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action. In this Reader you will find: Focus on… | difficult words | Comprehension activities | Test yourself | CLIL activity Tags Adventure ...
Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A PUFFIN BOOK. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is a classic fantasy adventure. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux ...
