The much-loved Roald Dahl collection of hilarious animal rhymes, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look.A collection of (mainly) grisly beasts out for human blood, ranging from Crocky-Wock the crocodile to Stingaling the scorpion. Described in verse with all Dahl's usual gusto and illustrated in suitably lurid style by Quentin Blake.Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork.

Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

The beautiful Scheherazade’s royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night...

This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster. The other tales include the ironic, horrific, poignant and haunting. Here Kipling displays his descriptive panache and realistic boldness. Shrewd, audacious, abrasive and challenging, he remains absorbingly readable

''I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!''Thomas De Quincey''s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours...

This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer...

n 1915, Lawrence’s frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century...

Die Stadt in der Wüste ist innerhalb des Gesamtwerkes Saint-Exupérys nebst dem Kleinen Prinzen das ganz andere Buch – und das unfangreichste. Citadelle, wie der französische Titel heißt, die Stadt in der Wüste, ist ein geschütztes Gebiet, eine Oase in der Wüste, fast eine visionäre Dichtung...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. The stories are classics of their genre. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’. They are all designed to instil that satisfying sense of unease in the heart of the reader.

Lawrence’s finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The ‘progress’ of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War...

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon’s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy’s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy’s philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy’s approval.

Italská verze publikace. Jako jiné evropské národy uchovává i český národ již po staletí s láskou poklad svých prostonárodních pohádek. Za to, že mnohé z kdysi pouze ústně tradovaných příběhů byly sesbírány a zaznamenány pro budoucí pokolení, vděčíme vlasteneckému étosu a sběratelské píli Boženy Němcové (1820-1862) a Karla Jaromíra Erbena (1811-1870). V českých zemích se jen stěží najde ně kdo, kdo by z nejútlejšího dětství neznal Čerta a Káču, Ptáka Ohniváka a lišku Ryšku nebo Princeznu se zlatou hvězdou na čele. Tento malý výbor českých pohádek z pera obou velikánů české literatury doby národního obrození je hezkou příležitostí jak dospělému čtenáři připomenout jednu z důležitých živých součástí české národní kultury, zatímco malí posluchači jistě podlehnou mámivému kouzlu oněch slov, jež dokáží rozzářit dětské oči na celém světě: „Byl jednou jeden...“

Cervantes tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss...

"Literary Lapses" by Stephen Leacock is a collection of humorous essays and stories written in the early 20th century. The book presents a series of witty observations and satirical takes on various aspects of life, education, and social customs, showcasing Leacock's sharp wit and keen insights into human nature.

First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy—the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authorities—Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. This edition contains the original illustrations from Strand Magazine drawn by Sidney Paget.

After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House. The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from which our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive...

In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned.

Ein Bauer pflanzt ein Rübensamenkorn und über Nacht wächst es zu einer riesigen Rübe heran! Doch obwohl er und seine Familie ziehen und ziehen, schaffen sie es nicht, die Rübe aus dem Boden zu zerren. Lest nun, wie in dieser reizenden Geschichte eine kleine Maus den großen Unterschied macht und alle sich ein riesiges Rübenessen schmecken lassen können. Bearbeitet von Ruth Hobart und Martina Knoth

Diese sehr beliebte Geschichte erzählt von einem kleinen Entlein, das anders aussieht als die anderen Entlein. Jeder lacht über das Entlein, Tiere und Menschen, und nur die Mama liebt es. Dann kommt der Frühling und das Entlein sieht sein Spiegelbild im Wasser, aber … was ist denn da passiert? Bearbeitet von Ruth Hobart und Martina Knoth