Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing...
When "The Eighth Passenger" was first published it was acclaimed as one of the most remarkable first-hand accounts of combat flying in the Second World War. Over the years the author has learned much, which for...
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a `heroine whom no one but myself will much like`, but Emma is irresistible. `Handsome, clever, and rich`, Emma is also an `imaginist`, `on fire with speculation and...
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Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a `heroine whom no one but myself will much like`: but Emma is irresistible. `Handsome, clever, and rich`, Emma is also an `imaginist`, `on fire with speculation and...
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst...
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such us Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and...
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such us Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and...
`There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about`, said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present...
David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published...
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena`s young cousin Mattie Silver is left...
Alexander Pushkin is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch...
Aesop`s celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the...
Eight of the twelve tales in this book are from the master hand of Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Although Perrault enjoyed much distinction in the French literary circle of the late seventeenth century, his fame today...
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection...
Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen`s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl,...
"Far from the Madding Crowd" is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy`s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward...
`Fathers and Sons` is Turgenev`s most acclaimed and influential work, and is a story of universal significance through its depiction of contemporary Russian life. The novel concentrates on the conflict between...
