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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series of popular classics, this new edition includes pictures and an extensive section on Wells's life and works.

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802, 701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon re ..

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon ..

Contains: The Time Machine; When The Sleeper Awakes; The Chronic Argonauts. In these ‚scientific romances‘ H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present; his aim is to provoke rather than predict.

‚There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels.‘ Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their beauty, so ..

Features three ghostly tales from a master of the form, ‚The Signalman‘, ‚The Trial for Murder‘ and the title story, ‚To Be Read at Dusk‘.

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntingdon College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and has been awarded numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize a ..

‚Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.‘ Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel – a black man charged with ..

‚Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird‘. Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel – a black man charged with attacking a whit ..

Rich in symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating Virginia Woolf's ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of the high points of early Modernism.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virgi ..

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood ..

Kniha Tom Jones autora Henry Fielding vydaná v nakladatelství Alma Books Ltd. v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 912, ISBN-13: 9781847499059, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighte ..

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, estab ..

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house…

C’è un’età della vita in cui si può trovare una voce pura: una voce tra il silenzio e il tuono. Non c’è un altro modo per parlare di sé, forse, quando guardarsi indietro, e dentro, è lo stesso movimento. E tutto, proprio tutto – le gioie, i dolori, l ..

„Trait de m taphysique“ de Voltaire. crivain et philosophe fran ais, nom de plume de Fran ois-Marie Arouet (1694–1778).

Edición crítica de TS 204, de la Biblioteca Nacional de Austria. Introducción y traducción de Jesús Padilla Gálvez A un siglo de la publicación del Tratado lógico-filosó co podemos acreditar que las tesis y propuestas, los argumentos y las refutacion ..

Perhaps the most iconic pirate story of all time, „Treasure Island“ was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1881. The book follows young Jim Hawkins who finds himself in possession of a treasure map and embarks on a journey to unearth the pirate boo ..

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memor ..

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century Tropic of Cancer redefined the novel. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it feature ..

A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer. A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. A mixture of f ..

„The Turn of the Screw“ tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.