HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \'Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow Than fate would have them bear.\' Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its

Macmillan Readers Middlemarch Upper Intermediate Reader

A Midsummer Night\'s Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare\'s plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare\'s plays

The stunning YA debut from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. Celestine North lives a perfect life. She\'s a model daughter and sister, she\'s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she\'s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions.

With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t\'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the

The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected\'. Written with great humour, irony and honesty, \"The Way of All Flesh\" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who casts off his background and discovers himself. The awkward but likeable

More than 100 spectacular illustrations introduce more than thirty dragons, each accompanied by engaging accounts of their origins, habitats, behaviour, and their confrontations with mankind. \"Dragons: A Natural History\" is a splendid tableau, full of the latest dracontological research, that will bewitch and bedazzle, offering captivating insight into the world of these majestic and sometimes comic

Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was born into a predominantly Italian family in London. Her two brothers, Dante Gabriel and Michael, were Pre-Raphaelite painters and poets. While her lyrics and carols remain popular, she also wrote fantasy, mystical and religious poems as well as stories and books for children.

Four lives, one woman, a star-crossed love . . . In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet begins a passionate, doomed romance with a married artist. In 1932, aspiring actress Nora escapes New York for the bright lights of Hollywood and a new chance at love. In 1970, Californian musician Sandra\'s secret love affair threatens to tear her band apart. And in 2012, Helen is starting to remember the tragic details

V knihe nájdete skrátenú verziu príbehu Winnetoua, jeho pokrvného bieleho brata Old Shatterhanda a statočného lovca Old Firehanda. Príbeh je spracovaný pre začiatočníkov a mierne pokročilých čitateľov, ktorí si chcú vyskúšať, ako si poradia so súvislým textom v nemčine. Slovenský zrkadlový preklad umožní záujemcom obratom skontrolovať, či cudzojazyčnému textu správne porozumeli. Audionahrávku vo formáte

A new novel from internationally bestselling author Raymond E. Feist. The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by Lodavico, the ruthless King of Sandura, a man with ambitions to rule the world. Ithrace\'s ruling family were the legendary Firemanes, and represented a great danger to the other kings. Now four great

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Graham Greene\'s gripping thriller was adapted into a British film noir in 1947 starring Richard Attenborough as the razor-wielding Pinkie.

Walter Mosca, hardened by the brutality and desecration of three long years of war, returns to the USA a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows that he must run back to the land of the enemy, to find the woman who accepts the rage and cruelty of the world around her. Back in Germany, where the bitter aftermath of war is everywhere apparent, American cigarettes will buy almost anything.

Readers can discover all the foul facts about the FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD WAR, including what the \'Fat King\' did with food scraps and dead horses, how sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack and why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford\'s Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth,

Karl von Clausewitz\'s study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as \'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war\'. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range of firearms was fifty yards, much of what he had to say remains relevant today. Michael Howard explains Clausewitz\'s ideas in terms both of his

Ma a magyar történelemben, de főleg az őstörténet-kutatásban két, egymásnak tökéletesen ellentmondó szemlélet hadakozik egymással. Az egyik a hivatalos, akadémikus történettudomány, amely szerint az Urál környéki őshazából származó kis finnugor népecske vagyunk, akik primitív és pogány idegenként érkeztek a X. században a Kárpát-medencébe, a művelt Európába. A másik megközelítés szerint mi vagyunk

Planeta liudei(Russian)

Half the man, twice the lawyer In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he\'s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he\'s one of them. He dreams of a life in the courtroom, but finds himself there sooner than expected whe