Castles from Cobwebs

The Shepherd of the Hills

Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills. Wright's novel, first published in 1907,

What Are We Doing Here?

New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important

The Road to Middlemarch

La vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, Rebecca Mead a citit romanul Middlemarch pentru prima dată și l-a citit apoi la fiecare 5 ani, de fiecare dată

Almayer's Folly and The Rover (Wordsworth Classics)

With an Introduction and Notes by John Lester, formerly Head of English at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. From the rain forests of

The Gold-N-Quartz Crystal

'Wouldn't it be outrageous to discover a race of people who lived both underground and above it, and who have integrated so cleanly into our

Integrame 2 in 1 Nr. 59 / 2023

Tell Me How This Ends Well

In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles....

Stella Does Hollywood

Stella has a 1969 Pontiac Firebird, a leopardskin bra and a lot of attitude. Partying her way around Hollywood she's discovered by a billionaire entertainment

The Karma Farmers

A genre-defying novel about love, murder and quantum theory. A crime thriller based upon a philosophical conundrum: if science demonstrated that consciousness could sur...

The Third Reel

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Literary Awards (South Africa) Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Afri...

Bina

My name is Bina and I'm a very busy woman. That's Bye-na, not Beena. I don't know who Beena is but I expect she's having

The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days

Shortly before Christmas, 79-year-old Alfred Warner arrives at Berlin's busy central train station, to meet his granddaughter Brynja for the first time. When she fails

The Hustler

Fast Eddie is an arrogant and talented pool shark who has decided that winning a few dollars here and there is not enough, so he

Everybody's Fool

Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after

Animal Farm

Romanul Animal Farm este unul dintre cele mai faimoase avertismente scrise vreodată. Satira nemuritoare a lui Orwell - îndreptată „împotriva lui Stalin” așa cum i-a

Ciresul si visinul

Autor: L. Chira

Yoga Book People Special Edition, Geoff Dyer

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the ultimate in detective fiction, pitting the horror of the supernatural against the cold, hard logic of the unflappable

Carte de bucate - Aperitive si gustari

272 Retete - Preparate Din Peste

Autor: Mircea Georgescu

AGNES GREY

Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte s first novel and a poignant account of her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her

The Golden Evening

From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize win. A brother an...

Applewood

Succeeding to the family farm between the wars, Pierre Edouard and Mathilde Vialhe struggle with a series of natural calamities in the Limousin, north of

Scarface (Bloomsbury Film Classics)

'I'm Scarface. I'm just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I've bumped off six or eight myself and another

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick

Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet, Joseph Epstein

This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters

The Sign of Four : GCSE 9-1 Set Text Student Edition

Comisia de examinare: AQNivelul și materia: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteraturePrimul curs: septembrie 2015Primul examen: Iunie 2017 Această ediție a cărții The ...

Radical Acts of Love

In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has

The Hotel Life

A man who writes a hotel review-column for a newspaper is given the wrong key card when he checks in to a hotel, and he

Falling

Through the long, oppressive summer after his grandfather's death, Lucas becomes aware of dark secrets surrounding the old man's activities during the war. Yet no

Primperfect

Nu, nu o face! Prim este în viață (deși, din păcate, elegantul Roderick nu mai este). Are șaisprezece ani. Încearcă să înțeleagă jurnalele mamei sale.

The Stylist Takes Manhattan

Amber Green is back! The sequel to Rosie Nixon’s fun-filled debut follows Amber as she tries to see if she has what it takes to

Red Speedo

Ray's swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he'll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets

Mischling

Este anul 1944 iar Pearl și Stasha Zagorski, surori gemene, ajung la Auschwitz împreună cu mama și bunicul lor. Cele două fete își găsesc refugiul

Quotable Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown
I have immortal longings in me. --Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra Truth has a quiet breast. --Thomas Mowbray,

Wieland

Penned by the skilful hand of Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland was one of the first American Gothic novels and is a fantastic piece of horror

Treasure Island

One of the most enduringly popular adventure tales, Treasure Island began in 1881 as a serialized adventure entitled 'The Sea-Cook'in the periodical Young Folks. Complet...

Scandalous

Laura is a bright and ambitious language student at a top university in France. She is also broke. Surfing the internet one evening, she stumbles

The Professor

Primul roman scris de Charlotte Brontë, „The Professor” este o poveste despre viața lui William Crimsworth, un orfan englez crescut de unchii săi aristocrați. El

Families of the Vine

Families of the Vine invites the reader into the working lives of three families whose sole crop is the grapes grown in their vineyards, grapes

Tiny acts of love

Lawyer Cassie has a new baby, a husband who converses mainly through jokes, a best friend on the other side of the world, and a

The Lady Vanishes & The Spiral Staircase

This novel, when originally published in 1936, was entitled The Wheel Spins. However, since the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation in 1938, the novel has become

Glinda of Oz

The last book in Baum's series sees Princess Ozma and Dorothy travel througha remoteregion of OzDorothy travels with PrincessOzmato an obscure corner of the Land

Reel Life Starring Us

Rockwood Hills Junior High is known for the close-knit cliques that rule the school. When arty new girl Dina gets the opportunity to do a

The Cigar That Fell In Love With A Pipe

'Following the release of his latest movie, Orson Welles - renowned director and smoking aficionado - receives a celebratory box of cigars. As he indulges

SYNGE COMPLETE WORKS

The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World

Sitting Practice

It only takes a moment for your life to be changed forever—as the characters of this darkly comic novel discover early on. The fateful moment

Weekend Dad

As children, Emmett and Daisy were inseparable. Until Daisy announced that she'd seen her mum kissing Emmett's dad. They haven't seen each other since, but

How to Cure a Ghost

Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, the author's poetry book is a

Five Give Up the Booze

Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen's classic work of romantic fiction, 'Pride and Prejudice', with notable illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The illustrations in this edition have been photogr...

Prophets of Nature

This perceptive study, by well-known thinker and writer Gordon Strachan, discusses the tradition of green spirituality as seen through poets such as Wordsworth and Col...

Urban Shots

Edited by bestselling author, Paritosh Uttam, this is an anthology of 29 urban tales by 13 young writers. Each of these fresh, vivid and deceptively

BRIEF LIVES: JOHN MILTON

William Shakespeare and John Milton are the two most important poets in English. Shakespeare's achievements are unchallengeable and secure, while Milton's claim to emine...

The Diamond Hunters

The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be

Sketches Of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Coupless

Când editorii din Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, au scos anonimul „Sketches of Young Ladies” în 1837, succesul lor răsunător l-a determinat pe Dickens, în

VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five

Dublin Palms

The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a

The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye

Jonathan Lethem again displays his brilliance in this collection of seven short stories, blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery, and thriller. Tales include 'Light a...

An Anthology of Mine

O ediție-copie a „micii antologii” cu poemele preferate ale lui Rex Whistler, alcătuită și ilustrată chiar de către artist în 1923. Aceasta este o colecție