The Four Million (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive and in prison, these stories address themes of poverty, p...więcej »
Flo is sick of Tokyo.Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course.That's...więcej »
Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the worldVictor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to c...więcej »
Bored of the parties and luxuries that come with her socialite lifestyle, Claire Boltwood longs for something more authentic in her life. Desperate for adventure, Claire and her father decide t...więcej »
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?This is the...więcej »
What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freed...więcej »
Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was 15-years-old and growing up in a quiet Tibetan village, he ran in fields with yaks and mastiffs. The passing of time was simply marked by the changing seaso...więcej »
A collection of the perennially popular Funny Bones books by Allan AhlbergCelebrate thirty years of Funnybones with the spooky A Brilliant Bone-rattling Collection which contains three storie...więcej »
This is how the story begins.On a dark dark hillthere was a dark dark town.In the dark dark townthere was a dark dark street . . .This new edition of the classic...więcej »
The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.‘An enormously talented writer… By writing about what's se...więcej »
Fifteen vivid stories set in Europe and Mansfield's native New Zealand populate this selection of tales inspired by the complex nature of the human condition. The author delivers an insig...więcej »
The Gates of Life (1905), also published as The Man, is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written at the height of his career, The Gates of Life helped to establish...więcej »
He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assisted by a new collaborator, André Cabannes, returns to tackle Einstein's gene...więcej »
The Gentle Grafter (1907) is a collection of fourteen short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive and prisoner, these tales follow the escapades o...więcej »
After killing a man in self-defense, Donald McRae is forced to go on the run with his young son, Pierre. Hiding in the Canadian wilderness, Donald and Pierre are able to live in peace for severa...więcej »
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925) is a novel by Anita Loos. Adapted from a series of stories written for Harper's Bazaar, Gentlemen Pref...więcej »
Andrew Roberts, one of Britain's premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George IIIGeorge III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest t...więcej »
"In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and rep...więcej »
Meeting Joe changed everything. It gave me hope . . . I never wanted to stop talking to him. I wanted him to tell me everything about what it was like to be him. Ariel's a...więcej »
Helen Alving is a widow who's committed to protecting her son from his father's unsavory past which was marked by a string of extramarital affairs. She doesn't want her son to be affected...więcej »