Author: James Morris, 576 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece...[a] book filled with superb studies of battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters" (New York Times Book Review). Index. A
Author: Thomas Hardy, 518 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1023 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy
Author: Charles Dickens, 448 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Pip doesn't expect much from life...
His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is
Author: George Eliot, 579 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce
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: Alain de Botton, 265 trang, bìa mềm, bị bong mép bìa chi tiết xem hình
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer
Author: Jane Austen, 384 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always
Author: Oscar Wilde, 209 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
This book includes four short stories of Oscar Lord Arthur Saviles Crime, The Sphinx without A Secret, The Canterville Ghost, and The Model Millionaire. These stories are delicately designed, and have complicated plots. They create a world of absurd reality. Oscar
Author: Christopher Morris, 191 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
The contents I. Culture, Politics and the Tudors II. The Tudor Heritage III. Henry the Seventh, 1485-1509 IV. Henry the Eighth, 1509-1547 V. Edward the Sixth 1547-1553 VI. Mary Tudor, 1553-1558 VII. Elizabeth the First, 1558-1603
Author: Karin Slaughter , 400 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
The gripping new thriller from international bestseller Karin Slaughter A pleasant walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and pediatrician/coroner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young
Author: Nigel Cawthorne, 266 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
A fun and fascinating tour of the by-ways of British legal history. Did you know that the law requiring a London taxi driver to carry a bale of hay on top of his cab to feed the horse
Author: Fiza Pathan & George Grossmith, 240 trang, bìa mềm, trầy gáy chi tiết xem hình
Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, impudent young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do
Author: George Chamier, 256 trang, bìa cứng có bìa áo, tình trạng tốt
This is a whistle-stop tour through 2,000 years of our nation's story from the Roman invasion to the Falklands War. Setting out the wide sweep of British history that is often ignored, historian George Chamier weaves together a
Author: Jane Austen, 549 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
At ten years old, Fanny Price is brought to live with her rich relations at Mansfield Park. Timid and modest by nature, she is overawed by her smart cousins Maria and Julia Bertram, their pleasure-loving elder brother Tom, their father the
Author: Henry Fielding, 916 trang, bìa mềm, tình trạng tốt
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the