When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there is work for a wet-nurse. Who better than Jeeves?
The stories of the man-cub Mowgli's boyhood in the jungle have an imaginative power that has appealed to generations of children and adults. Brought up by wolves among the unforgettable characters of the jungle,...
Following the death of a friend, poet and pets` mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death,...
The resourceful butler, Jeeves, devises a scheme to enable his master, Bertie Wooster, to escape from complicated romantic entanglements.
Ardent, impulsive, thirsty for knowledge, Maggie Tulliver is one of the great heroines of literature. George Eliot drew on her own anguished childhood when she depicted the stormy relationship between Maggie and Tom...
With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat, the devil begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers...
Antony Beevor`s "The Mystery of Olga Chekhova" is the true story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among...
Years later, Susan, now a widow, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth`Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their surprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, following the sale of his wife, took a...
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than `The Mayor of Casterbridge`. Set in the heart of Hardy`s Wessex, the `partly real, partly dream country` he founded on his native Dorset, it charts...
The third adventure of Dumas`s infamous musketeers, which tells of how Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D`Artagnan fight for their lives - and the glory and honour of France - magnificently lives up to the author`s dictum,...
