Swift\'s devastating short satire on how to solve a famine Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\'s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century

Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!\'Frances Burney\'s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine\'s entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably,

As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai\'s fame extends throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN\'s limited Collector\'s Edition, this monograph

The boldest book in a long while from an author not exactly unaccustomed to boundary-pushing...ace.\' --Grazia\'it\'s

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LIONEL SHRIVER Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May\'s unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free

A little book with a big heart! \"I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know.\" --Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She\'s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man\'s

On the Road\" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical

Kell is one of the last magicians with the ability to travel between parallel universes, linked by the magical city of London. It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into his possession and he met Delilah Bard. Four months since the Dane twins of White London fell, and the stone was cast with Holland\'s dying body back into Black London.Now Kell is visited by dreams of ominous

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Un voyage animé avec une jeune protagoniste. Attention les enfants, les ręves deviennent parfois réalité ! Thčmes : - Ręve et fantaisie - Animaux - Jeux et activités - CD Audio - Vocabulaire illustré Sophie dort dans son lit et elle fait un beau ręve. Elle ręve de passer une journée dans un cirque. Sophie ręve de rencontrer Gustave le clown, Juliette la danseuse, un superbe cheval blanc et Plume l’éléphant.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \'He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.\' Following one soldier\'s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War.

Příběh o setkání letce, jehož letadlo havarovalo v africké poušti, a malého chlapce z daleké planety je vhodný pro čtenáře všech generací. Pobízí nás k přemýšlení nad otázkami dobra a zla a hledání podstaty přátelství, opravdové krásy a odpovědnosti za ty, které máme rádi. Antoina de Saint-Exupéryho, francouzského spisovatele, novináře a pilota, k napsání Malého prince inspirovala skutečná havárie

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Based on the internationall acclaimed book by Joe Simpson,Touching the Void is the compelling true story of a mountaineering expedition which goes dreadfull wrong.

Gerade läuft\'s für den Eberhofer Franz mit der Susi einwandfrei, sein heimischer Saustall ist so gut wie fertig eingerichtet, da überschlagen sich die Ereignisse in Niederkaltenkirchen: »Stirb, du Sau!« hat jemand mit roter Farbe an Realschulrektor Höpfls Eigenheim geschmiert, und kurz drauf liegt er auch noch tot auf den Gleisen! Selbstmord? Mord? Mal wieder Stress pur für den Franz …

The most unusual and mesmerising novel yet from Japanese cult author, Haruki Murakami

Robin Hood, the noble outlaw of Sherwood Forest, who robs the rich to aid the poor. Follow him and his friends Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale and others as they struggle for freedom and justice against the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood, šlechetný zbojník ze Sherwoodského lesa, který bohatým bere a chudým dává. Následujte jej a jeho přátele Malého Johna, mnicha Tucka, Allana-a-Dalea

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan\'s bestselling Percy Jackson series - now with a brand new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can\'t tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It\'s not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants

Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures. Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn\'t going anywhere, her debt is soaring,

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the

At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother\'s rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone. She