One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time... Zobraziť viac
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts... Zobraziť viac
As an orphan, Jane's childhood is not an easy one but her independence and strength of character keep her going through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. However, her biggest challenge is yet to come. Taking a job as a governe Zobraziť viac
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: This book includes an introduction and notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church... Zobraziť viac
Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, ‘Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the... Zobraziť viac
Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn! Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to ... Zobraziť viac
Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey... Zobraziť viac
When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town’s mill workers grows, ... Zobraziť viac
Three late - Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip... Zobraziť viac
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures – mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism – narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its ... Zobraziť viac
Dans le village, tout le monde l'appelait la petite Fadette parce qu'elle avait la taille d'un farfadet et les pouvoirs d'une fée. Comme sa grand-mere, elle guérissait les hommes et les animaux. Dans les environs, la famille Barbeau était une... Zobraziť viac
She´s beautiful, rich and clever, and has decided she´s perfectly happy with the single life. What Emma does love, however, is interfering in other people´s business (and she is always convinced she´s right)... Zobraziť viac
The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader... Zobraziť viac
A father's love for his daughters degrades into obsession, in an evocative novel of nineteenth-century French society that offers a commentary on wealth, human desire, ambition, and despair... Zobraziť viac
Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses. Zobraziť viac
An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot’s depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different ... Zobraziť viac
From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of... Zobraziť viac
In David Copperfield, Dickens describes one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical, fearful and grimly realistic. Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: by far the best translations/critical editions available ... known internationally as a topnotch scholar... Zobraziť viac
