\"La storia che Dumas ci narra è spesso pura invenzione; i suoi personaggi sono psicologicamente incerti, e piuttosto improbabili. Ma di tutto questo difficilmente ci si accorge, perché Dumas possiede come pochi altri il dono di catturare il lettore e di i

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor\' Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind\'s ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from nineteenth-century workers to today\'s activists. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows a thousand and one wonderful stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but he can\'t. Sheherezade tells him stories about a clever servant girl and a boy judge, about Ali Baba and Aladdin. What happens next? Her husband wants to know. He listens and she lives.

A novelisation of ITV\'s lavish period drama, Sanditon, adapted for television by Emmy and BAFTA-Award winning writer Andrew Davies and based on Jane Austen\'s unfinished novel.When a chance accident transports Charlotte Heywood to the seaside town of Sanditon, her life changes forever. And when she meets the charming and slightly wild Sidney Parker, she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of romance,

Arthur Miller\'s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the

Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chroniclesthe Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad\'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilitiesmaking them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire

Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby is chockfull of comics about cats, babies, dogs, lasers, selfies, and pigeons! This book contains a vast wealth of never-before-seen comics, including informative guides, such as: How to comfortably sleep next to your cat 10 ways to befriend a misanthropic cat How to hold a baby when you are not used to holding babies A dog\'s guide to walking a human being

A window on the world\'s most stylish city, with profiles of 20 diverse and inspiring Parisian women accompanied by gorgeous full-colour photographs by model and fashion designer Jeanne Damas, and Lauren Bastide, former editor-in-chief of French Elle. \"We\'ve always been crazy in love with this city. . . We love its arrogance, its clumsiness, its simplicity. And especially the women who live here.\"

\'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her ...\' Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\'s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many

Fabrice Del Dongo, second fils d\'une riche famille d\'aristocrates milanais, est élevé par sa tante dans le culte de Napoléon. Rappelé au domaine familial par son pere qui ne partage pas les idées révolutionnaires de sa soeur, il assiste la mort dans l\'âme a la chute de l\'Empire et a l\'exil de l\'empereur a l\'ile d\'Elbe. Un an plus tard, Napoléon débarque en France et s\'apprete a livrer une

Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends in this ELT adaptation of the new Peanuts film. Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \'It doesn\'t matter if you\'re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan\'s egg!\' (from \'The Ugly Duckling\') This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen\'s most popular fairy tales - including \'The Little Mermaid\', \'The Ugly Duckling\' and \'Thumbelina\' - in a celebration

Il sogno di Giulia č diventare una famosa detective, come il famoso commissario Salvo Montalbano. Un giorno la sua vita cambia a causa di un semplice souvenir comprato in Egitto. Ma č un semplice souvenir o qualcosa di piů?

The thrillingly dark sequel to New York Times bestseller, DIVERGENT - a major motion picture in 2014. One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. Tris Prior\'s initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction; instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. Now unrest surges in the factions around her as conflict between their ideologies grows. War seems

Tessa is soon caught in a dangerous love triangle where a wrong decision could prove fatal. She will need all her strength to save her brother and stay alive as she learns the chilling truth of what really lurks on London\'s streets after dark. Discover more about the mysterious and sexy Shadowhunters in this thrilling prequel trilogy to the bestselling \"Mortal Instruments\" sequence. It is supported

Opportunities is a new five-level course for teenagers. Modules of topic-based units provide rich, contemporary content based on a wide variety of information themes. With a discovery approach to grammar and an upfront focus on vocabulary, Opportunities ensures the most effective language learning for students.

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her

Oliver Twist‘s life is hard and desperate one. His mother is dead, so he is brought up in a workhouse. Beaten and starved he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin’s gang of pickpockets to survive. Will the boy manage to find a real home in such a mercyless world? Život Olivera Twista je těžký a zoufalý. Maminka mu zemřela, a tak je vychováván v sirotčinci. Zbitý a vyhladovělý uteče do Londýna,

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever. At work, we\'re taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians. We\'re not listening. And no one is listening to us. Now more than ever, we need to listen

The classic bestseller behind this year\'s biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and