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Complete Short Fiction (Oscar Wilde)
The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners--the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral just...
Where Angels Fear To Tread
When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, he...
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger; Rory Stewart (Foreword by, Introduction by)
Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, a legendary figure renowned for his travels though some of the most inaccessible places on earth. Arabian Sands w...
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes...
Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare. "What fool is not so wise to lose an oath to win a paradise?" Ferdinand, King of Navarre and his lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville agree to form an austere academy, taking a sole...
Book of Magic - From Antiquity to Enlightenment
Brian Copenhaver's wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical tradition to anyone drawn to the Renaissance and the tangled, arcane roots of the scientific tradition....
The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside the Royal House of Dubai
The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of Dubai, ruled by the iron fist of its patriarch, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.Dubai is feted internationally as a beacon of modernity- glittering skyscrapers, a c...
Widespread Panic
"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring storyFreddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head st...
Lessons in Chemistry
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif...
Time's Up (#10 Kensy and Max)
"Someone is out to get Kensy and Max. In the two years since the twins discovered the secret world of Pharos, they and their family have been targeted relentlessly in suspicious attacks, with no clues as to who is out to get them, or why. But with the revelation that the long-dead Lawrence MacGregor is ...
Peter Rabbit: Up and Away: inspired by Beatrix Potter's iconic character
Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter's world-famous creation, is hopping off on new adventures in this brand new picture book series created by bestselling creators, Rachel Bright and Nicola Kinnear. Peter is being a helpful bunny and looking after Jemima Puddle-duck's eggs one sunny spring day. Peter soon has...
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