This historically significant novel of love and betrayal led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre ...viac o knihe
The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years and continue to shape our ideas today. The Art of War ...viac o knihe
He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated-us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the ...viac o knihe
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas. Originally published by G.M. Hill Co., 1900. About the ...viac o knihe
The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance ...viac o knihe
A young woman comes of age and realizes that life is not a Gothic novel. A timeless classic, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the ...viac o knihe
Follow Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland and enjoy tea with the Mad Hatter, find your way with the Cheshire Cat, and play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. On the other ...viac o knihe
In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne takes readers back to the Puritan days of the American colonies, into a society as unforgiving as its harsh New England winters ...viac o knihe
No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the legendary fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
They are the stories ...viac o knihe
In a society where people -dreaded scandal more than disease,- passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set ...viac o knihe
We all know the stories -- or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about -Wise ...viac o knihe
No library is complete without history's oldest treatise on warfare.
Dated to about fifth century BC, The Art of War is considered the oldest treatise on war in the world ...viac o knihe
Bring on the merriment whenever you open this collection of Shakespeare's entertaining comedies. The comedies of William Shakespeare--including The Tempest, The ...viac o knihe