Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poaches his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decads later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life become a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most d…
When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwreckes and washes ashore n the island of Lilliput, the tini Lilliputiansa are just the first of many strange beings he is to encounter on his incredible viyages. From the giant Brobdingnagians to the logical Houyhnhnms -- a race of intelligent horses -- and the brutish Yahoos Gulliver find distorted reflections of humankind in every extraordinary creature he meets.
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo
Roman dictator Julius Caesar returns from a victorious campaign in Spain, causing his fellow-citizens to mistrust the scope of his political ambitions. Afraid that he will accept the title of 'king', a group of conspirators persuade Marcus Brutus to join their plot against Caesar. William Shakespeare's play revolves around Marcus Brutus as the grapples with issues of friendship, honor, and patr…
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the greatest love story of all time, from the pen of the finest writer in the English language. This brilliantly plotted tale has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, and is as popular today as it was when first performed over four hundred years ago.
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a Christmas Classic written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffman on which the famouse ballet The Nutcracker is based. In the story young Marie Stahlbaum's favourite Christmas toy, the Nutcracjer, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. The story begins on Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum h…
In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and executives to express his disdain for modern society, and to work on his magnum opus, Industrial Society and Its Future, forever known to the world as the Unabomber Manifesto. Responsible for three deaths and more than twe…
Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being
One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The Judgement', 'In the Penal Colony' and 'A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.