Author: Charles Dickens,, 384 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises
Author: Charles Dickens, 367 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Those are the famous lines of Dickens's stirring tale of two cities, London and Paris, at the time of the French Revolution. Suspense gathers from the opening scene, the dramatic
Author: Kate Furnivall, 437 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Italy, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost?
One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a café in the vibrant centre of Bellina, when a woman she's never met asks her to watch
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, 104 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle,
Author: Thomas Hardy, 393 trang, bìa mềm, trầy gáy chi tiết xem hình
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous
Author: Edgar Allan Poe, 496 trang, bìa mềm, trầy bìa chi tiết xem hình
Spiral into a dimly lit world, down streets lined with madmen and their black deeds, through the cold twists of the catacombs, and into rooms where secrets dwell. From the tortured mind of Edgar Allan Poe, these
Author: Daniel Defoe, 339 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth
Author: E.M. Forster, 396 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination
Author: Wilkie Collins, 748 trang, bìa mềm, bị trầy mép dưới chi tiết xem hình
'Mr Vanstone's daughters are Nobody's Children'.
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left
Author: Anne Bennett, 465 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
A story of struggle and hardship and one girl’s battle for survival from the best-selling author of If You Were the Only Girl and Another Man’s Child.
Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to
Author: Lynne Truss, 304 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
After the notorious 'Middle Street Massacre' of 1951, when the majority of Brighton's criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys
Author: Jane Austen, 409 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love
Author: Charles Dickens, 608 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was
Author: Jenny Uglow, 344 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and
Author: Michael Haag, 384 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested, accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their leaders
Author: Richard Hall,136 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Communication and presentation is crucial in all areas of business and a key factor in whether we succeed or not. In today’s business world, we all have to present at some point or another, regardless of how much we enjoy doing it.