More’s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the princi...
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of prov...
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury.It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict...
Rowan Tripp has been fighting the annual forest fires in the Montana mountains since she was eighteen years old. But now she is mourning the death of her good friend and jump partner, Jim - and hau...
A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far - a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and win...
Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in Émile Zola's cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Étienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branc...
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activit...
EASY READERS Uproszczone lektury anglojęzyczne. Proste i uproszczone teksty o różnej tematyce (od klasycznej literatury po historie detektywistyczne) z ilustracjami i objaśnieniami słownikow...
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England...
Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year - due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she's accepted her cousin's invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. R...
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' f...
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and...
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its com...
Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that ful...
Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escap...
Translated by Tobias Smollet. With an Introduction by David Whitlock.According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail - his avowed intent being to debunk t...
Dearest little boys and girls,you know that it wouldn't strain usto look round and find a statuerepresenting someone famous.Here's a fellow up on horseback -he's...
The new Jack Reacher thriller from the number one bestseller. A prequel to the first Jack Reacher novel THE KILLING FLOOR, this is going to be a book every Reacher fan will be dying to get their ha...
Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", t...
In Christian’s own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of reader around the world. CH...