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Baum Frank
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
Editura: Everyman
Anul aparitiei: 1992
Frank Baum set out to write 'a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nighmares are left out'. Page dim. 215 x 166 x 19 Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS Weight: 440 grams
Grimm Jacob, Grimm Wilhelm
Grimms' Fairy Tales
First published in Germany in 1812, these tales were collected by the two brothers Grimm from neighbouring villages and spinning rooms, and include "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Rumpelstiltskin". Arthur Rackham's illustrations were first published in 1900. Page dim. 163 x 212 x 25 Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS Weight: 610 grams
Evans C S
Cinderella
Anul aparitiei: 1993
This edition of the famous fairytale was first published in 1919, and includes the pumpkin coach and mice horse, the rat coachman, lizard footmen and the glass slipper. It is a full-length version of the story, and is illustrated with Arthur Rackham's silhouette drawings. Page dim. 212 x 161 x 13 Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS Weight: 280 grams
Jacobs Joseph
English Fairy Tales
One of the great nineteenth-century folklorists, Joseph Jacobs collected stories from oral sources and made scholarly notes on their origin, but he deliberately recorded them in a plain and direct style which he thought suitable for children and which makes them 'supremely tellable'. Page dim. 209 x 167 x 29 Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS Weight: 655 grams
Stowe Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Anul aparitiei: 1995
Published in 1851, Harriet Beecher-Stowe's novel rapidly became world-famous and remained so. A didactic and sentimental drama set among the slaves of the American South, Uncle Tom's Cabin is nevertheless a lively and forceful story. Given the history of race relations in our time it remains relevant even today. Page dim. 210 x 137 x 31 Weight: 580 grams
Callier Pepper de
Common Sense Wisdom A Trusted Companion for Your Life and Career Journey
Anul aparitiei: 2021
Page dim. 121 x 192 x 26 Weight: 316 grams
Spicer Tim
A Dangerous Enterprise Secret War at Sea
Page dim. 169 x 248 x 28 Weight: 758 grams
O'Connor Frank
Frank O'Connor Omnibus
Anul aparitiei: 2009
The contents have been intriguingly divided into eight narrative threads that influenced and informed O'Connor's oeuvre. Page dim. 214 x 138 x 40 Weight: 620 grams
de Maupassant Guy
Selected Stories
Page dim. 215 x 211 x 30 Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Weight: 516 grams
Okri Ben
The Famished Road
Page dim. 137 x 212 x 35 Weight: 650 grams
Andric Ivo
The Bridge on the Drina
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Page dim. 138 x 212 x 32 Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Weight: 566 grams
Various
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. Page dim. 192 x 130 x 39 Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Weight: 480 grams
Books and Libraries Poems
more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan. Page dim. 171 x 216 x 25 Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Weight: 242 grams
Poems of London
Poems of London brings together a remarkably wide range of poems inspired by the storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today. The pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare and Donne to Wordsworth and Blake to T. Page dim. 191 x 166 x 24 Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Weight: 252 grams
Dostoevsky Fyodor
Notes from a Dead House
In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. As a member of the nobility he had been despised by his fellow prisoners, most of whom were peasants - an experience shared in the book by Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman who has killed his wife. Page dim. 136 x 212 x 33 Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Weight: 512 grams
Rothschild Hannah
House of Trelawney Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page dim. 129 x 198 x 26 Weight: 258 grams
Sainsbury Tim
Among the Supporting Cast Reminiscences and Reflections on Three Careers
Anul aparitiei: 2020
This business book-cum-political and cultural memoir, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the revolution of one of the great retail dynasties of the world, will resonate with readers questioning our current malaise. Page dim. 160 x 242 x 23 Weight: 584 grams
Dubois Jean-Paul
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
Editura: Quercus Publishing
Anul aparitiei: 2022
The surprising life of an unassuming everyman: perfect for readers of Stoner and Robert Seethaler Page dim. 143 x 221 x 28 Weight: 348 grams
Buzz Words Poems About Insects
Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet. Page dim. 117 x 164 x 22 Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Weight: 226 grams
Poems of Healing
Messages of hope in the midst of pain - in such masterpieces as Adam Zagajewski's 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World', Wislawa Szymborska's 'The End and the Beginning' and Stevie Smith's 'Away, Melancholy' - make this a perfect gift for anyone on the road to healing. Page dim. 113 x 165 x 21 Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Weight: 214 grams