It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, ... Zobraziť viac
Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in... Zobraziť viac
CCV: Amazon.co.uk Athena College was snoozing complacently in the Berkshires until Coleman Silk strode in and shook the... Zobraziť viac
Corsair: Hurt people hurt people.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions: The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to... Zobraziť viac
Faber and Faber: 'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there... Zobraziť viac
Alma Classics: On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions: This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm... Zobraziť viac
´I am making up To the Lighthouse - the sea is to be heard all through it´ Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood... Zobraziť viac
This is a new title in Young Reading, Series Three. It is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. It tells the doomed love story of Cathy a... Zobraziť viac
A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke... Zobraziť viac
1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of ... Zobraziť viac
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries... Zobraziť viac
Frankenstein is often hailed as a masterpiece of 19th-century Gothicism. The monster's culpability for various horrific acts, his powerlessness in the face of his complete ostracism from society and Dr Frankenstein's lies, ... Zobraziť viac
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights ... Zobraziť viac
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, ... Zobraziť viac
Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century and a moral history of a nation and a people ... Zobraziť viac
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their fathers death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes... Zobraziť viac
