When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. the most ...
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus—three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white ...
Now every kid can write like a Wimpy Kid! An exciting companion to the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.  “First of all, let me get something straight: This is a journal, not a diary.”  This innovative interactive journal based on Greg Heffley’s own “diary” lets kids express themselves ...
In this witty story of love and marriage, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love, but will they marry? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading ...
Bram Stoker''s peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Dracula" is edited with notes and an introduction by Maurice Hindle, as well as a preface by Christopher Frayling. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase ...
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of ...
Emma si uvedomuje, ako sa jej do psychiky a tela zabodáva každý ďalší pribúdajúci deň, ako sa vekom dostáva do rozporu s vlastnými názormi, ako inak vnímajú celú jej bytosť dcéry aj manžel. Jej mladosť, ukrývajúca sa niekde hlboko v podvedomí, z času na čas prejaví svoju životaschopnosť. Emma podľahne ...
The star of Northanger Abbey" is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen''s youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels (especially of the gothic variety), encounters a world ...
After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge I became the first man in history to have the power to create life from death.’ Tags Science Fiction Fantasy/Horror In this Reader you will find: - Information about Mary Shelley’s life - Sections ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme. With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE ...
For more than five decades, stories of Paddington Bear have delighted children all over the world. The classic story of the bear from Darkest Peru who arrived at Paddington Station with nothing but a suitcase, a half-empty jar of marmalade and a label that read, ''Please look after this bear. Thank you.'' ...
Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacen\''s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victory-whatever the price. While Luke grieves ...
Zvestovateľ patrí k ranej tvorbe libanonského spisovateľa Chalíla Džibrána (1883-1931), ktorého preslávili diela Prorok a Ježiš Syn človeka. V dvadsiatich piatich nadčasových aforizmoch a pôvabných podobenstvách ponúka hlboký duchovný pohľad na ľudský život. Zvestovateľ je považovaný za predchodcu Poroka. ...
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a debut from a uniquely talented author.Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more ...
Agatha Christie is the most popular mystery writer of all time. With over two billion copies of her books in print, her genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. Linnet Ridgeway has almost everything: youth, beauty, style, and wealth. What she doesn''''t ...
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their ...
As the wife of a leading paediatric plastic surgeon, Tessa Russo can''t help but contemplate how fragile life can be. She has witnessed, too often, her husband Nick''s sombre mood when he returns from a call-out, knowing that another child has been hurt - damaged, perhaps, beyond repair. Each time, Tessa ...
"Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" is the first bestselling book in Rick Riordan''s phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series - now with a new cover look. Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn''t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, ...
Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner''s Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism ...
