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Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the
best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the
classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also
features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno
Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the
Snark," and miscellaneous poems, short stories, puzzles, and
acrostics.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each
tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully
inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but
also such monuments of postmodern whimsy.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer,
and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult
existence.
First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic
story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the
cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the
couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time
and place, and the double standards that apply to men and women.
The tale's panoramic sweep and Tolstoy's colorful depiction of
Russia and the European continent are virtually unparalleled in
world literature. This novel, in the estimation of William
Faulkner, is 'the best ever written.' Anna Karenina is one of
Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics. Each volume features
authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an
exquisitely designed bonded leather binding, with distinctive gilt
edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and
collectible, these books offers hours of pleasure to readers young
and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.
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The Chianti Flask
(Paperback)
Marie Belloc Lowndes; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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For the first time ever, a beautiful deluxe stamped clothbound
hardcover edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings housed in
a custom-built clothbound slipcase, and illustrated throughout in color
by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, with the complete text printed in two colors
and with many bonus features unique to this edition.
The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Fëanor, most
gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of
the Two Trees of Valinor. But the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the
jewels and set them within his iron crown, guarded in the impenetrable
fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth.
The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his
kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to
Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism, against
the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The
Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as
Elrond and Galadriel took part.
The book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindalë, a myth
of the Creation, and the Valaquenta, in which the nature and powers of
each of the gods is described. The Akallabêth recounts the downfall of
the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age, and
Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third
Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.
This deluxe slipcased edition contains the complete text, which is
printed in two colors and features, for the very first time, more than
50 colour paintings, illustrations and designs drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien
himself as he composed this epic work.
Unique to this edition are two poster-size, fold-out maps revealing all
the detail of Beleriand as the tales grew, an illustrated booklet
featuring ‘A Brief Account of The Silmarillion and its Making’ by
Christopher Tolkien, and a printed art card reproducing ‘Taniquetil’.
It is additionally quarterbound with raised ribs on the spine, stamped
in three foils on black cloth boards, and housed in a custom-built
clothbound slipcase. The pages are edged in silver and include a ribbon
marker.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for.
Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne’s influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love.
Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams' smash hit sci-fi comedy and cult classic series. This stunning gift edition is illustrated by Costa Award winning Chris Riddell.
If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe?
Which is exactly what Arthur Dent and the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea.
And did anyone actually make a reservation?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS' CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE
YEAR _________________________________ *** A Top Ten Kindle
Bestseller *** 'Pure nerve-shredding suspense from the first page
to the last' Erin Kelly 'Blair Witch meets Fleabag ... pure
mastery' Janice Hallett 'Dazzling' Riley Sager
_________________________________ Movie-making can be murder. The
project Final Draft, a psychological horror, being filmed at a
house deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of
West Cork. The lead Former soap-star Adele Rafferty has stepped in
to replace the original actress at the very last minute. She can't
help but hope that this opportunity will be her big break - and she
knows she was lucky to get it, after what happened the last time
she was on a set. The problem Something isn't quite right about
Final Draft. When the strange goings-on in the script start to
happen on set too, Adele begins to fear that the real horror lies
off the page... _________________________________ 'A roller-coaster
ride and fun in every sense, I loved it!' Andrea Mara 'Will have
you glued to your sunbed ... insists on being read in one sitting'
Gloss
‘Our God is a big man: a tall man much higher than the highest chapel
in Wales and broader than the broadest chapel. For the promised day
that He comes to deliver us a sermon we shall have made a hole in the
roof and taken down a wall. Our God has a long, white beard, and he is
not unlike the Father Christmas of picture-books. Often he lies on his
stomach on Heaven’s floor, an eye at one of his myriads of peepholes,
watching that we keep his laws. Our God wears a frock coat, a starched
linen collar and black necktie, and a silk hat, and on the Sabbath he
preaches to the congregation of Heaven.’
Set in west Wales and among the Welsh of London, and written in the
Biblical cadence which had made its author famous, Caradoc Evans’s
third collection castigates the ignorance, greed and hypocrisy of his
people.
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Lodore
(Paperback)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Discovery Miles 2 880
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Also published as The Beautiful Widow, Mary Shelley's penultimate
novel explores the web of relationships between three women, bound
together by the exacting Lord Lodore: his estranged wife Cornelia,
a woman ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society;
his daughter Ethel, raised in the wilderness of Illinois and
utterly dependent on her father; and finally, the independent and
highly educated Fanny Derham, the daughter of Lodore's childhood
friend. At first glance, Lodore appears to be a "silver fork"
novel--a popular romance genre from the Regency era about life in
fashionable society--yet Shelley's take imbues the story with
subversive critiques of domesticity and masculinity. Long
considered the most Jane Austen-like of Mary Shelley's novels,
Lodore is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand this
brilliant feminist writer.
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’.
Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.
The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
Sharp left by the school and down the lane to the gas works. The
gasworks? I, a dentist, heading for the gasworks in a small Welsh
market town? It was the furnace I wanted... From the dramatic
scenery of Snowdonia and the Gower to the stunning coastlines and
hushed valleys, the landscapes of Wales have inspired many writers
of Golden Age mystery stories - from within and without its
borders. Centred around a lost novella by Cledwyn Hughes, this new
collection features the best stories from celebrated Welsh authors
such as Mary Fitt and Ethel Lina White, as well as short mysteries
inspired by or set in the cities and wilds of the country by both
beloved Golden Age writers and authors from the 1960s and 70s who
continued to push the boundaries of the genre.
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