Hebel developed a pithy, spontaneous style for these stories which he originally wrote for inclusion in a popular almanac. Dipping into The Treasure Chest readers will find jokes, comic anecdotes, sen
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)With its frank sexuality and searing critique of the Church, La Regenta scandalized contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885. Married to the retired magistra
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。In MAHARANIS Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four princesses - two grandmothers, a mother and a daughter - of the Royal courts of India. Their extraordin
So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up in a make-or-break search for family, identity an
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。 Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invad
"Once upon a time, a very long time ago, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest. . ." More than sixty years ago, readers were first introduced to Edward Bear－better known as Winnie-the-Pooh and his belove
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。 Voltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wandsworth, and remained thre
The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. Prize-winn
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author pretending to be a team of six much earlier biographers, it contains a solid core of historical fact but also make
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bo
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Travels into the heart of Sierra Leone, a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people the author encountered in a realm of fire and jungle as they rebuild th
A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Cen
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The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are as current in today's culture
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because he provides vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost)
With unerring insight and emotional power, Belva Plain, in her extraordinary novel, tells the story of a family divided and of the proud matriarch who takes a bold last stand to unite her warring chil
They have the body of a slaughtered woman. They have a half-naked man standing over her. They have no idea how to make him talk. And so they call in ex-FBI interrogator Alex Rourke to the traumatized
Some people, the author included, love shopping so much that even the weekly trawl round Waitrose is a treat. In this essential guide/memoir, India Knight dissects the singular pleasures afforded by e
Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End. This book focuses on the lives of Londoners in the East End during the Second World War. Showing the concerns, hopes and
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Elizabeth and Betsy, old school friends meet again in their thirties. Elizabeth is relieving the boredom of a cosy but childless marriage with an affair. Betsy seems to hav
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 One cold winter in the 1970s, Leonid Tsypkin's obsession with Dostoyevsky leads him to Leningrad by train, so that he can see for himself where his hero died. As the
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Presents the story of Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini and provides an account of his flamboyant exploits in the world of Galileo, Michelangelo, and the Medicis, giving a
His previous book revealed the shocking truth about globalization. Now, Joseph Stiglitz blows the whistle on the devastation wrought by the free market mantra in the nineties - and shows how Bush is i
Two of the nineteenth-century novelist's shorter works, in which she analyzes a country town besieged, at a critical time, by forces beyond its ken and presents an unfulfilled love affair which pits o
Parents are the best reading teachers in the world. Parental involvement is key to a child learning to read, to use language - and to their whole early years education. This book presents simple strat
It Seems Strange To Me, Said Cleanthes, That You, Demea, Who Are So Sincere In The Cause Of Religion, Should Still Maintain The Mysterious, Incomprehensible Nature Of The Deity, And Should Insist So S
The first of W.G. Sebald's non-fiction books to be translated into English, "On the Natural History of Destruction" explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction. In the
Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the '50s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys, simply trying to cope with a
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 This collection of stories recounts the adventures of Ker-Orr, a self-termed 'soldier of humour', and his travels in the Breton Countryside shortly before the First Wo
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*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Shows what the resolutions mean for the people who must live in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda, and for the UN soldiers who are sent to bring order to the terrifying chaos
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。Written by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity, su
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner o
‘Buried like moles beneath the crushing weight of the earth, and without a breath of fresh air in their burning lungs, they simply went on tapping’ Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a
‘May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then’ In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë tells the story of Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yor
Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited new
Presents the author's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. This title provides an account of the rise and fall of a great popular artist and icon.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succes de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Under the influence of Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, where he is able to indulge his desires while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only Dorian's picture bears the traces of his decadence.A knowing account of a secret life and an analysis of the darker side of late Victorian society. The Picture of Dorian Gray offers a disturbing portrait of an individual coming face to face with the reality of his soul.@MajorLeagueAesthole Sadly my beauty will one day cease. Perhaps I could preserve it by having the doc pull and staple the skin of my face? No. A silly thought. People seem put off by my self-absorption. But I can
In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as pay
