A gifty shrink-wrapped pack containing three great adventure stories for young readers: The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit, illustrated by Peter Bailey, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Ste
Following in the footsteps of Horace’s Ars Poetica, Boileau’s Art of Poetry lays down, in four entertaining books dealing with all forms and genres of poetry, the codes and rules for good versificatio
Perhaps in no other novel of the twentieth century the sense of time and place had such a central role and profound significance as in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s masterpiece, The Leopard – a work
A gifty shrink-wrapped pack containing three volumes of Sherlock Holmes stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Homes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. These beautifully i
From his birth in a cradle of sperm to his death on a blood-soaked pillow, Heliogabalus, Emperor from the age of fourteen, embodies the depravity and decay of Rome in the third century. Although steep
The poetry of Éluard is that of the real world and its natural sensations and feelings. The main themes that stand out are love, brotherhood and kindness. His imagery is characterized by its appeal to
In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life, from her earliest childhood memories and the time when she met and became
