Eine Reminiszenz an Helene Hanff's ' Charing Cross Road'. Eine warme, witzige und durch und durch unterhaltsame Ode an die Kraft des geschrieben Wortes.

Elizabeth Bennet is at first determined to dislike Mr. Darcy, who is handsome and eligible. This misjudgment only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775. Her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector of Steventon, where she spent her first twenty-five years, along with her six brothers (two of them later naval officers in the Napoleonic wars) and her adored sister, Cassandra. She read voraciously from an early age, counting among her favorites the novels of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Fanny Burney, and the poetry of William Cowper and George Crabbe. Her family was lively and affectionate and they encouraged her precocious literary efforts, the earliest dating from age twelve, which already displayed the beginnings of her comic style. Her first novels, Elinor and Marianne (1796) and First Impressions (1

Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being her soul and center.

"James Cameron's Titanic" chronicles a master storyteller'scinematic re-creation of one of the most vividly remembereddisasters of the modern era. Cameron's epic motion picture, winnerof eleven Academy Awards, was an unforgettable triumph offilmmaking, weaving a rich human tapestry of romance and heroism,tragedy and greed, and, ultimately, the power of true love - astory that will continue to capture the hearts of audiences forgenerations to come. This collector's edition will include all theoriginal content from the first book as well as a new and extendedintroduction by James Cameron. Additional new content will include:twenty-six newly designed pages with never-before-seen images fromthe film studio and from James Cameron's personal archive;behind-the-scenes stories from Cameron himself detailing theconcept art and making of the original film; a revelatory look atthe technical process of transforming original film into dynamic 3Dprints; quotes from Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio discussingthe fi

Hanson died quickly with a knife in his back. Carol was next covered with acid and tortured to death. Now it was Judd's turn a New York psychoanalyst had known them both. Two faceless executioners on a murderous mission searching for a secret Judd doesn't even have... Sidney Sheldon's gripping first novel lays bare the hidden world of the analysts couch where murder and violence can hover dangerously close to the surface...

This novel,first published in 1817,achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form.In rich prose and vivid de*ion,Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son,Frank Osbaldistone,who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful,enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor,the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots.This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past.

Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair (1847-8) famously satirizes worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp, and Amelia Sedley, pampered child of a rich City merchant. Despite the differences in their fortunes and characters, they find their lives entangled from childhood. As Becky's maneuvering ingratiates her with high society, the financial ruin of Amelia's father forces Amelia into poverty. Destiny, of course, has further adventures in store for both women, whose lives Thackeray (1811-63) uses as theatres for the whims and foibles of their contemporaries. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介： WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY was born in India to a long line of Yorkshire gentry recently mixed with equally ancient gentry. In 1817, two years after the death of his father a prosperous official of the East India Company, the boy was sent back to England. There he underwent

None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in theheart of Hardy's Wessex. the partly real, partly dreamcotintry' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts therise and self-induced downfall of a single man ofcharacter. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrivednarrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, andfeatures some of the authors most striking episodesand brilliant passages of de*ion.

When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret. What Bella doesn't realize is that the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. And it might be too late to turn back... Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, Twilight is an extraordinary love story that will stay with you long after you have turned the final page.

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory,Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure,a stirring story,and a luminous evocaion of a vanished America in all its savagery,solitude,and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg,Inman,a Confederate soldier,decidet to walk backto his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada,the woman he loved there years before.His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders,bounty hunters and witches,both helpful and malign.At the same time,Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survieve in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their.Cold Mountain asserts itself as authentic American Odyssey-hugely powerfrl,majestically lovely,and keenly moving.

Ever since Whit and Wisty Allgood were cruelly torn from theirhome and family in the middle of the night, the soldiers of abrutal totalitarian government have relentlessly tried to captureand execute them for 'collusion, conspiracy, and experimentationwith the dark and foul arts'. But this supremely skilled witch andwizard have instead boldly spearheaded the fight against the wickedregime of the New Order and its systematic destruction of music,art, books, and imagination.The villainous leader of the New Orderis just a breath away from the ability to control the forces ofnature and to manipulate his citizens on the most profound levelimaginable – through their minds. There is only one more thing heneeds to triumph in his evil quest: the Gifts of Whit and WistyAllgood. And he will stop at nothing to seize them. --This textrefers to the KindleEdition edition.

I cannot recall a book so rich in theme and symbol and yetwith plot and character so grounded in the here-and-now. Chartingone man's fall from--and reclamation of--grace, "Disgrace" weavesmetaphor that is ironic, blunt, disturbing and, ultimately,timeless around two events that could not be more contemporary:sexual harassment of a co-ed by an aging professor; and an attackby native South Africans on a white farm. David Lurie is a professor of "Communications" at a Cape Townuniversity. His specialty is Romantic poets, in particular Byron.At age 52, twice divorced and finding gratification, if notfulfillment, in orchestrated liaisons with prostitutes, Lurie is atrivial version of the Byronic hero he studies. Despite hisprofessorship, Lurie, by his own admission, is no teacher. Heprefers the tag "scholar." He is in fact a manipulator, acontroller.

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals.

Like all young elephants, EIIy some.times forgets her manners! In this beautifully illustrated storu, Elly finds out how saying "please" can make all "the dijference. Suitable for ages 2-4,Other Titles In The Series:

Monsieur Linh est un vieil homme. Il a quitté son villagedévasté par la guerre, n’emportant avec lui qu’une petite valisecontenant quelques vêtements usagés, une photo jaunie, une poignéede terre de son pays. Dans ses bras, repose un nouveau-né. Lesparents de l’enfant sont morts et Monsieur Linh a décidé de partiravec Sang Di?, sa petite fille. Après un long voyage en bateau, ilsdébarquent dans une ville froide et grise, avec des centaines deréfugiés. Monsieur Linh a tout perdu. Il partage désormais un dortoir avecd’autres exilés qui se moquent de sa maladresse. Dans cette villeinconnue où les gens s’ignorent, il va pourtant se faire un ami,Monsieur Bark, un gros homme solitaire. Ils ne parlent pas la mêmelangue, mais ils comprennent la musique des mots et la pudeur desgestes. Monsieur Linh est un c?ur simple, brisé par les guerres etles deuils, qui ne vit plus que pour sa petite fille. PhilippeClaudel accompagne ses personnages avec respect et délicatesse. Ilcélèbre les thème

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare s works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Romeo and luliet is the world s most famous drama of tragic young love.Defying the feud which divides their families Romeo and luliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship marriage and sexual fulfilment but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism bawdy comedy intimate harmony and sudden violence Long successful in the theatre it has also generated numerous operas ballets and films and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.

The life of Agatha Christie as told by herself. It covers her childhood, her first marriage, the birth of her daughter Rosalind, her second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan, and an account of her legendary career as a novelist and playwright.

Stefan and Damon weren't always fighting or succumbing to theirbloodlusts. Once they were loving siblings, who enjoyed all theriches and happiness that their wealthy lifestyle afforded them;loyal brothers who happened to both fall for the same beautifulwoman.Once they were alive...

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods thatsurround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincolnkneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken withsomething the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatalaffliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in hisjournal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study anddevotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And thismastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendaryheight, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path ofvengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union andfreeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces ofthe undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. Thatis, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journa

A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered...Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been

Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turnedupside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from NewYork City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, sheremains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interestif she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, aformer concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in thebeach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become thecenterpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is anunforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love,the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as onlya Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply feltrelationships can break our hearts ...and heal them.

The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66. Here is all the drama of the Old Testament transformed into a historical narrative of Greco-Roman character; and more important, our only continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs in the two hundred years that led up to the revolt. William Whiston, successor to Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, published his famous translation of Josephus' works in 1737. The modern system of chapter divisions has been added.

When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After a corpse is found in his flat, Hannay flees the attentions of both the conspirators and the forces of law,and the pursuit turns into a thrilling manhunt. Set against the hot summer which precedes the outbreak of the First World War,The Thirty-nine Steps is one of the finest and most highly admired thrillers ever written.