'I want Facts, Sir,' said Mr Thomas Gradgrind. 'Only Facts will ever be of use to these children. Coketown was full of Facts. Its buildings shook all day with the thunder of its great machines. But are the people happy with their Facts?'asks Dickens. Are Thomas Gradgrind's own children happy? If so, why does his daughter marry so unhappily? Why does his own son waste his life? This is a n…
I wanted to climb to the summit of challenges, attack my way through hardships as solid as granite, tempt all sorts of peril, and break through mysteries with science. I longed to inhale all sorts of experience and then explore the labyrinthine ins and outs of life that in the end cannot be guessed. I yearned for possibilities that react with each other, like the collision of uranium molecules:…
a NANCY DREW arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at Shadow Ranch, but abruptly finds herself involved in a baffling mystery. The ranch is being haunted by a phantom horse and maliciously damaged by an unknown enemy. Local people believe that the ghostly animal is carrying out the curse of Dirk Valentine, the romantic outlaw who was killed many years ago…
Have you ever wanted to escape your humdrum life? A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs, even if she has to put up with her difficult sister. Stella's tantrums and diva-like demands are a fair price to pay for crystal-clear waters, blue skies and white clifftop villas. When Alice meets Milo, a handsome gardener at the Villa Argenti, she suddenly feels bea…
Eleven-year-old Romy Alexander thinks she is on break from Monkey Magic as she leaves the forests of a Asia for the urban jungle of New York City. However, following a series of bizarre and unexplained burglaries Manhattan's museums and galleries, Romy soon discover there is no escaping her strange and mystical power.
What on eart on earth is causing the orangutrans of Mukada Nature Resreve to fall sick and head to the coast? with her Romy Alexander-on a visit to Borneo scientist father—isn't convinced by the park warden's explanation that is the cause of the problem. overcrowding The eleven-year-old soon discovers she has acquired extraordinary powers to investigate the mystery that brings her face to fac…
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff, that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself: In Typhoon, …
Popular Illustrated Classics is a series of masterpieces from world literature. It includes the works of English authors such as William and Charles Dickens Shakespeare as well as authors such as Chekhov and Maupassant in translation. Realising the importance of line drawings in enhancing the intimacy of the reading experience, it has been conceived as an illustrated series. For the first ti…
Popular Illustrated Classics is a series of masterpieces from world literature. It includes the works of English authors such as William Realising the importance of line drawings in enhancing the intimacy of the reading experience, it has been conceived as an illustrated series. For the first time ever, a series has attempted to modestly delineate the tender , dramatic and Shakespeare and Ch…