Bad Blood. The Naturals #4 - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Meetings With Remarkable Men

For twenty years, the spiritual teacher Gurdjieff journeyed through Central Asia and the Middle East. Part travelogue, part adventure, part spiritual guide, Meetings with Remarkable

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by

Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River

Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here.

Collected Ghost Stories

Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales,

The Alchemist and Other Plays

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern

French Decadent Tales

Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Leon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian

The Professor

The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before

A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections

James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of

Troilus and Criseyde

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of

Autobiography and Other Writings

This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from

Selected Writings

This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer his centenary in 2002 prompted a

Lyrical Ballads. 1798 and 1802

Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a

Brassai, Paris

With this book, priced very reasonably, the finest work of one of photography's giant figures is all yours

Light between Oceans (editie de buzunar)

Extraordinary and heartrending. (Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief)A Richard and Judy bookclub favouriteGoodreads historical category winnerThe New York Times bestsellerSoon to be a

La casa verde

Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La casa verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra

Her Fearful Symmetry

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their

The Shadow of Your Smile

At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice:

Things We Never Say

The things we never say:A daughter doesn't say how she feels about the past...A husband is afraid to say that selling the house his wife

Consolation

An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite.Charles Balanda is

Book Thief (10th Anniversary Edition)

The 10th-anniversary edition of the No. 1 international bestseller and modern classic beloved by millions of readersHERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the

Leviathan

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications

At the Water's Edge

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the

Thirteen Reasons Why

Read this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch the 13-part Netflix series, executive produced by Selena Gomez.You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the

Swing Time (format de buzunar)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017.A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author

This Census-Taker

In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with

The General in His Labyrinth

'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' (Sunday Telegraph)'An imaginative writer of genius' (Guardian)'The most important writer of fiction in any language' (Bill Clinton)As

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop

Love in the Time of Cholera

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed

The Autumn of the Patriarch

'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' On the eve

Late Victorian Gothic Tales

The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Gothic fiction of

Le Morte Darthur. The Winchester Manuscript

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.

Goya

Coming at the tail end of the Old Masters period, Goya, with his audacious, subversie, and highly influential works, can be considered the first painter

Del sentimiento trágico de la vida

La colision entre el pensamiento cientifico, incapaz de dar un sentido a la vida, y la moral religiosa carente de justificacion personal provoca en Unamuno

The Old Curiosity Shop

`Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque

Historias de cronopios y de famas

Historias de cronopios y de famas es uno de los libros legendarios de Julio Cortazar. Postulacion de una mirada poetica capaz de enfrentar las miserias

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Narrated by Rai Merchant, a childhood friend of both Vina and Ormus, The Ground Beneath Her Feet begins with a terrible earthquake in 1989 that

Maktub

Maktub (que quiere decir «esta escrito») es una seleccion de los articulos de Paulo Coelho publicados en el periodico brasileno Folha de S. Paulo entre

Cartas de mamá

Cartas para mama es uno de esos cuentos imprescindibles que escribio Julio Cortazar. Partiendo de una carta que recibe Luis de su madre, iremos asistiendo

Hegarty on Creativity. There Are No Rules

Hegarty on Advertising represents the 21st century's answer to David Ogilvy's bestselling Confessions of an Advertising Man and provides both John Hegarty's advice on the

De amor y de sombra

Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvandose asi de una existencia vulgar. Esta novela es

Bosch: The Complete Paintings

Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his

Travesuras de la niña mala

¿Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor?Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueno que en su Lima natal alimento desde que tenia

Todos los nombres

Todos los nombres es la historia de amor mas intensa de la literatura portuguesa de todos los tiempos. Eduardo Lourenco Como Gunter Grass o Ces

Mi país inventado

La deslumbrante prosa de Isabel Allende esta vez se pondra al servicio de sus recuerdos intimos y de la vision de su Chile natal. Segun

Cuentos completos

Paper Towns

Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she

Marina

En la Barcelona de 1980 Oscar Drai suena despierto, deslumbrado por los palacetes modernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus

Bienvenue! Manual de limba franceză. Nivelurile A1, A2, B1, B2

Editia a II-a revazuta si adaugita Un manual de comunicare progresiva in limba franceza, pentru nivelurile incepator – mediu – avansat Manualul contine:• texte care va ajuta

Slash

He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne's later changes,

The Girl in the Photograph

When Alice Eveleigh arrives at Fiercombe Manor during the long, languid summer of 1933, she finds a house steeped in mystery and brimming with secrets.

Fallen in Love

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story.And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a

The Pickwick Papers

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: