Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Knight's Tale, a Starter level Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Starter...

Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the principle achievements of James Tiptree Jr - the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon. Demonstrating Tiptree's eye for unnerving future dystopias and her unparalleled depiction of strange worlds and...

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beautiful, spirited...

Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral...

The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in...

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion...

From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and...

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a writer. Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and...

The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's ‘Baker Street Dozen’, creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of...

James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail...

"In Grand Prix, celebrated broadcast journalist and commentator on Netflix's Formula 1: Drive to Survive Will Buxton chronicles the history of Formula 1, highlighting the achievements and stories of forty-five notable Formula 1 drivers and other key figures. Readers will be introduced to historical heroes like Formula 1’s first world champion, Giuseppe Farina, and Ferrari icon Niki Lauda, as...

Szatan we własnej osobie, ekscentrycznie ubrany Korowiow, gadatliwy kot Behemot , Asasello z kurzym udkiem w kieszeni marynarki i rudowłosa wiedźma Hella. Woland – wraz ze swą świtą - dokona niemałego zamieszania, gdy pojawi się w Moskwie. Ale czego spodziewać się po kimś, kto jadł śniadanie z samym Immanuelem Kantem, choć ten – gdy rozgrywa się akcja powieści - nie żyje od ponad stu lat…?...

CZYTAJ WCIĄGAJĄCĄ POWIEŚĆ W ORYGINALE I UCZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO! Kiedy mały Heathcliff trafia z ulicy do zamożnej rodziny Earnsharów, pomiędzy nim a Cathy pojawia się wyjątkowa więź. Z czasem przeradza się w uczucie, które staje się tak silne, że para przestaje przejmować się konwenansami oraz zdaniem innych. Bohaterowie płacą za swoją miłość najwyższą cenę, a za ich błędy będzie musiało...

Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view. On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of Star Wars. Each of the forty short stories...

A story of superheroes, villains, vengeance and forbidden love, Archenemies by Marissa Meyer is the fabulous sequel to the New York Times-bestselling Renegades. Time is running out. Together, they can save the world. But they are each other’s worst nightmare. Nova’s double life is about to get a lot more complicated: As Insomnia, she is a fully-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of...

Seria wydawnicza „,czytamy w oryginale“, zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Niniejszy tom zawiera adaptacje dwunastu kryminalnych opowiadań z Sherlockiem Holmesem – najsłynniejszym detektywem w historii literatury – w...

Experience the internet's most talked-about book, now a major motion picture, from Anna Todd, the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” Now a Major Motion Picture on Netflix! There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there’s everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa     Tessa is a good girl with a sweet,...

W 80 dni dookoła świata to najpopularniejsza powieść francuskiego pisarza Juliusza Verne’a, swoją premierę miała w 1873 roku. Należy do cyklu powieściowego Niezwykłe podróże. Akcja książki rozpoczyna się w XIX-wiecznym Londynie. Phileas Fogg tajemniczy, angielski dżentelmen wiedzie monotonne, samotne i uporządkowane życie, do czasu, gdy założył się z kolegami o to, że w osiemdziesiąt dni...

Jak daleko można dotrzeć? W XIX wieku, choć jeszcze niemożliwe były ekspedycje kosmiczne, pisarze kreowali światy wykraczające poza naukowe normy. Juliusz Verne zabierał czytelników w wyprawy podmorskie oraz najdalsze rejony świata, a w 1864 roku stworzył jedną ze swych najbardziej fantastycznych wizji. Swojego bohatera, niemieckiego profesora, jego bratanka oraz intrygującego przewodnika,...