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Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community.
Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Soon after the success of Little Women, Louis May Alcott wrote a sequel called Good Wives.
In the U.K. and around most of the world, this has continued to be published as a separate book, but many American editions have incorporated both books under the title of Little Women.
Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by
Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and
Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever
written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied
consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is
inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment
on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride,
of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and
hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the
detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and
confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his
crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of
supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at
the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for
self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of
morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's
harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries
of divine justice and immortality.
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'One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering
genius' - David Walliams An international phenomenon and
pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been
a radio show, TV series, novel, stage play, comic book and film.
Following the galactic (mis)adventures of Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's
in its various incarnations has captured the imaginations of
curious minds around the world . . . It's an ordinary Thursday
lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The
Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace
express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an
alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing
but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large
friendly letters, with the words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only
just begun . . . With exclusive bonus material from the Douglas
Adams archives, and an introduction by former Doctor Who
showrunner, Russell T Davies. The intergalactic adventures of
Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five',
Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy.
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