Doctor Faustus and Other Plays - Tamburlaine, Parts I a...
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions a...
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays : Tamburlaine; Parts I a...
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593); a man of extreme passions a...
Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One...
Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and ...
The The Persians and Other Plays - The Persians and Oth...
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep...
Doctor Faustus And Other Plays - Tamburlaine, Parts I And II; Doc
Rio Grande and Other Verses
The perfect collectors item a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. Banjo Patersons classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. Rio Grande and Other Verses was published in 1917, when Banjo Paterson was himself was on active service in the Middle East. It includes poems such as Mulga Bills Bicycle, The ...
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Aristophones was a contemporary of Socrates and the last and greatest of the old Attic comedians, but unfortunately only 11 of his plays survive. Of these, this title contains three: Lysistrata, The Acharnians, and The Clouds. Aristophenes was sceptical about the democratic system of government and was critical of the eagerness with which the people committed themselves to war and the ...
The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the best-known New Testament stories retold for children, by Enid Blyton, one of the worlds best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. Enid Blytons retelling of Christs own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love Christs love for us, our love for each other and Enids caring and timeless love for...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils, wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled with bizarre creatures from the Dong with a luminous nose to the Pobble who has no toes who misbehave with joyful abandon. Here can be found such exuberant and timeless verse a...
The Gambler and Other Stories
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevskys collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life indeed, The Gambler, a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes Bobok, the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and...
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses
The perfect collectors item a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. Banjo Patersons classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses, with illustrations by Lionel Lindsay, was published in 1917, when Banjo Paterson was himself was on active service in the Middle East. It include...
Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us
The question isnt whos going to let me: its who is going to stop me. A powerful argument for reducing inequality and revolutionizing how we use the web for the benefit of the many rather than the few. Kirkus Jonathan Taplin, more than anyone I know, can articulate the paralyzing complexities that have arisen from the intertwining of the tech and music industries
Every musician and...
A Dolls House and Other Plays
The plays in this volume, each written a decade apart, demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsens genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. A Dolls House portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape from the stifling confines of her marriage a theme that shocked contemporary audiences and established ...
The Gruffalo's Child Song and Other Songs
Book Components1× 9781447200291, The Gruffalos Child and Other Songs, PaperbackAudio Components1× 9780230761735, The Gruffalos Child And Other Songs, Audio CDYouve read the books, now sing the songs! The Gruffalos Child returns with her very own song to introduce a truly monster musical session! As well as being the UKs most successful picture book author and the 2011-2013 Childrens ...
Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
The question isnt whos going to let me: its who is going to stop me. A powerful argument for reducing inequality and revolutionizing how we use the web for the benefit of the many rather than the few. Kirkus Jonathan Taplin, more than anyone I know, can articulate the paralyzing complexities that have arisen from the intertwining of the tech and music industries
Every musician and...
Maximum Ride - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Youre about to join the adventures of Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel, six extraordinary kids who have powers like no other: they can fly, and theyre being chased no, hunted across America and around the world. THIS IS THE END, MY FRIENDS. But I promise that youll fly higher than ever before in this wild adventure, witness battles worthy of multiplex movie screens, and laugh ...
The Complete Low-Fodmap Diet - A Revolutionary Plan for Managing Ibs and Other Digestive Disorders
A diet plan proven to relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive disorderspresented by the worlds leading experts and tailored to you A must-have survival guide Gerard E. Mullin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Integrative GI Nutrition Services at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine What can I do to feel better? For years, million...
Circus and Other Stories
These four books, published in the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1927, were a collaboration between poet Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) and painter Vladimir Lebedev (1891 1967). Based on the idea that a childrens book is an important cultural object in its own right, they linked painting, poetry and typography and created the timeless precursor to the modern childrens picture book. In four bran...
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - And Other True Cases
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars
. A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down
. A modest preachers wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument but theres more to her shattering story than meets the eye...
A Woman's Huts and Hideaways - More Than 40 She Sheds and Other Retreats
Gill Heriz presents another inspirational collection of womens sheds and other small spaces. In A Womans Huts and Hideaways, each place has its own story, a reason for being, whether its somewhere to escape, to create, to work or just a place to be. A bespoke shed in an Urban garden, surrounded by pots of plants and flowers, serves as an isle of peace for its owner, Wendy. By the Water...
Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories
We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight. So begins Singing My Sister Down, Margo Lanagans internationally acclaimed, award-winning short story. Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories brings together ten celebrated short stories, along with three new ones, from the extraordinarily talented author of Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts. A bride accepts her devastating...
Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
Kitty Flanagan has been locked in an industrial freezer in Western Australia, insulted about the size of her lady parts in Singapore and borne witness to the worlds most successful wife swap in suburban Sydney. Its these valuable lessons from The University of Life that have taught her so many things, including the fact that cliches like The University of Life are reeeally annoying. In t...
A Memoir of Jane Austen - and Other Family Recollections
I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete. James Edward Austen-Leighs Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edwards two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continu...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernaturals most celebrated book Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamberwhich includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordans ...
Dracula and Other Horror Classics (Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics)
Dracula and Other Horror Classics collects the most memorable tales of horror by Bram Stoker. In addition to Dracula-the landmark vampire novel that set the pattern for virtually all vampire fiction written after its publication in 1897-this omnibus collects the novels The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm. It also includes a dozen of Stokers short tales of the macabre, includi...
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Brownings epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring the woman question, art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called her wild and magnificent genius is abundantly in evidenc...