The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy OKelly and the Weasel, and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery. By turns funny, fantastical and mysterious, the stories are matched in liveliness by the original illustrations of John D. […]
The Black Moth is Georgette Heyers first novel, written when she was 17 years old to amuse her sick brother. It features Jack Carstares??an Earl turned highwayman??and his enemy??the enigmatic Duke of Andover??who engage in an intense rivalry over society beauty Diana Beauleigh?? Seven years before our story opens, Carstares protected his brother by allowing […]
Hasan is eleven years old. One summer morning, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Set in a land ruled by an oppresive military regime, this novel recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.
Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, “the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc.” In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. […]
A series of anecdotes shouldnt by rights add up to an autobiography, but thats just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled “Judging Books by […]
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This is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. The father is a dustman and the mother a washerwoman, but because they are poor the children find even greater opportunities for adventure in their ordinary lives. Theres practical Lily Rose, the oldest who […]
Chloe Patterson was one day away from becoming part of the most affluent family in Riverton…until her fiance married another woman Pregnant with a Hopewell heir, Chloe realized the only way to protect her baby from the powerful family was to keep her pregnancy a secret
Suzanne Carter has sworn off men…really! Her inability to take life seriously drives them crazy, so its best she leaves them alone. Then one night, strong, handsome Ryan Alondo rescues her and she simply melts. Who could resist all that rough-and-tumble sexiness? But as tempting as he is, shes not going to fall for his […]
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
At last, Ayn Rands masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, “Who is John Galt?”, Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the […]
Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship A young orphan transforms the life of a lonely, embittered man in this novel about faith and society set in nineteenth-century rural England. Each Enriched Classic Edition includes: – A concise introduction that gives readers important background information – A chronology of the authors life and work – A […]
In Russias struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture, as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation. Tolstoy gave his personal approval […]
Each edition includes: ? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play ? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play ? Scene-by-scene plot summaries ? A key to famous lines and phrases ? An introduction to reading Shakespeares language ? An essay by an […]
Dickens considered Great Expectations one of his “little pieces,” and indeed, it is slim compared to such weighty novels as David Copperfield or Nicholas Nickleby. But what this cautionary tale of a young man raised high above his station by a mysterious benefactor lacks in length, it more than makes up for in its remarkable […]