Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russi...Lasīt vairāk
When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, where she follows the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. She has further adventures in...Lasīt vairāk
About and of its time, The Sun Also Rises speaks to todays readers in the yearning for connection and the psychological complexity of its protagonists, adrift in a world where the collapse of traditional values is a source of exhilaration and of anx...Lasīt vairāk
The little known, brilliant original text by Gaston Leroux has been immortalized by screen and stage adaptations. One of the greatest horror stories of all time, The Phantom of the Opera makes compulsive reading....Lasīt vairāk
Sanditon tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who is transported by a chance accident from her rural hometown to Sanditon, where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a small town - and encounters the intriguingly handsome Sidney Parker....Lasīt vairāk
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomass best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his first collection of short stories. These works show us his creative brillianc...Lasīt vairāk
Orwells subjects in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are the political and social upheavals of his time. He focusses on the sense of profound injustice, incipient violence, and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in Europ...Lasīt vairāk
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a scathing satire of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Today, it remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages....Lasīt vairāk
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother 1984 itself: these terms have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were created by George Orwe...Lasīt vairāk
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Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause....Lasīt vairāk
On one level this work is the story of an airmans discovery of a small boy from another planet in the desert and his stories of intergalactic travel, and on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition....Lasīt vairāk
This work of fiction is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds a package in Captain Flints sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Mutiny and ma...Lasīt vairāk
When the Cuthberts send to the orphanage for a boy to help them at their farm Green Gables, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, an incurable romantic causes chaos at Green Gables and at the village, but her goo...Lasīt vairāk
Contains stories of Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. This title tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brow...Lasīt vairāk
Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change overcomes her. With a local boy and her cousin the three children work magic in t...Lasīt vairāk
Presents Little Women which describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, and Good Wives which is the story of March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevi...Lasīt vairāk
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This story tells of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter....Lasīt vairāk
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When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, where she follows the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. She has further adventures in...Lasīt vairāk
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that g...Lasīt vairāk
Black beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horses adventures and the disappointments and joys that surround him....Lasīt vairāk
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Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. This edition tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robins...Lasīt vairāk
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In these two classic comic novels, Wells is at his very best in exposing and satirising the unequal nature of British society while preparing the ground for its reformation....Lasīt vairāk
Contains: The Time Machine; When The Sleeper Awakes; The Chronic Argonauts. In these scientific romances H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present; his aim is to provoke rather than predict....Lasīt vairāk
The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars.In The War in the Air, naive but resourceful Bert Smallways is thrilled by speed and fascinated by...Lasīt vairāk
Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition, The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods are two of Wellss most entertaining and thought-provoking works....Lasīt vairāk
This volume unites four of Wells liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human...Lasīt vairāk
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This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells, some of them famous, some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy, his originality and his prophetic genius...Lasīt vairāk
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The First Men in the Moon ignited speculation in nineteenth century society concerning what lies on and beneath the surface of the Moon. By turns amusing, thrilling and stimulating, the novel is a classic of its genre. Also contains another of Wells...Lasīt vairāk
