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Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes: Edith Grossman (trans)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they t...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curi...
The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from...
Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo
Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school, and already he's got a girl on his mind. And not just any girl- it has to be Vicki Streeton, the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in class.What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frig...
Gymkhana Hijinks (Starlight Stables #2)
Horse-mad friends Poppy, Milly and Katie are overjoyed to be back at Starlight Stables and spending every second with their new ponies - riding, training and having fun while preparing for their first big Pony club competition. But when a rival competitor arrives one day to train with them, trouble seem...
Vermilion Sands
VERMILION SANDS is J. G. Ballard's fantasy landscape of the future. . . a latterday Palm Springs populated by forgotten movie queens, temperemental dilettantes and drugged beachcombers, with prima donna plants that sing arias, cloud sculptures, dial-a poem computer and ravishing, jewel-eyed Jezebels. . ...
A Climate of Fear
THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL. A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these d...
Dinosaurs: A Children's Encyclopedia
Part of the series of award-winning, best-selling DK encyclopedias for children, this title has been completely revised to provide a comprehensive visual exploration of the entire range of prehistoric animal life. Dinosaurs- a children's encyclopediais not simply a catalogue of facts and photos - it is ...
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers...
The Great Gatsby: V&A Collector's Edition
This beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum, and has a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but beneath...
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead, genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built, and we are still living under this system today:...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us
'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins_________________________Jungle tells the remarka...
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