The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children’s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even...
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His...
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A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love ... But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy...
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A novel of startling scope and ambition, "Prague" depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation, following five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their...
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'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could...
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Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only...
A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom,...
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Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good...
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Includes a reader's guide and list of suggested reading...
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From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor...
Romeo and Juliet is the world’s most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage...
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts Here is Edward FitzGerald’s original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection...
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Адаптирана книга-ниво Advanced. It's June 9 1944, three days after D-Day. On the orders of the government, Captain John Miller and his men go to look for Private James Ryan. They...
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This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts...
Wochen- und monatelang geht das Leben seinen gewohnten Gang. Und dann kommt ein Tag, an dem unglaublich viel Neues geschieht. Carsten Tsara lernt eine Frau kennen, wird in einen dummen...
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As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day...
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This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost...
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Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave...
Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems,...
Адаптирана книга, ниво-Intermediate Detective Somerset has just seven more days before he retires- and he wants to get through them as easily as possible. But when they find the...
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Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself...
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Includes Dickens, Wilde, Trollope, Hardy, Chekov, Maupassant and many more. Notes accompany the tales...
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In einer Hightech-Firma ist eine wichtige Akte verschwunden. Was steckt dahinter? Spionage? Erpressung? Mobbing? Alles zusammen? Oder nichts davon? Sicher ist nur eins: Walter Dessauer...
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Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom...
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