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Puszczanie bąków to u nas temat kłopotliwy, pomijany milczeniem, wywołujący rumieniec wstydu, a często wręcz oburzenie. Tymczasem cały świat się z tego po prostu śmieje. Książka ta zachęca, abyśmy robili tak samo.

Precyzyjne wskazówki dotyczące eksploatacji, konserwacji i deprawacji produktu 'Twoja Teściowa'. Gdybyś usiadł za sterami myśliwca F-16 (bez instrukcji obsługi), nie zamknąłbyś nawet prawidłowo kabiny pilota. Nasza instrukcja dotyczy urządzenia o wiele bardziej skomplikowanego i nieobliczalnego niż (w sumie) banalny F-16. W rękach szaleńca (każdy pan młody jest poniekąd szaleńcem), pozbawionego instrukcjiobsługi, takie urządzenia mogą być przyczyną wybuchu III wojny światowej...

Książka ta jest dość nietypowa, stanowi bowiem rodzaj rozbudowanego autokomentarza artysty do jednego cyklu obrazów, a nawet do jednej wystawy (BWA Lublin w czerwcu 2012). Staje się to pretekstem do ukazania horyzontu intelektualnego, w jakim funkcjonujuje obraz w dobie późnej nowoczesności. Analizując poszczególne aspekty swoich obrazów, jak i sposób ich eksponowania, autor stara się ukazać wagę i doniosłość fenomenów - takich jak powtórzenia, rama, etc. - które niemal nieza...

Szwajcar Ueli Steck urodził się w 1976 roku. W wieku 18 lat wspiął się na Eiger legendarną północną ścianą, klasyczną drogą Heckmaira. Dziś znany jest przede wszystkim z pokonywania solo bardzo trudnych dróg wspinaczkowych w rekordowym tempie. W 2008 roku osiągnął Grandes Jorasses w czasie 2 godziny 21 minut, w 2009 na Matterhornie osiągnął czas 1 godzina 56 minut. W 2010 roku ustanowił rekord wejścia północną ścianą na Les Droites (masyw Mont Blanc) - 2 godziny 8 minut. W ro...

Historia literatury niemieckojęzycznej opowiedziana w esejach.

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on ‘extraordinary voyages.’ His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possib...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art–exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on ‘a very agreeable rack of suspense’...

Czy współcześnie podejmowane wysiłki na rzecz ochrony środowiska okażą się wystarczające? Oto krótkie, lecz wyczerpujące wprowadzenie do ekologii, opisujące najważniejsze nurty ideowe ruchu od momentu powstania aż po dziś dzień, a także podsumowujące jego najważniejsze debaty, sukcesy i porażki. Dlaczego stan środowiska naturalnego wciąż się pogarsza mimo systematycznej intensyfikacji starań na rzecz jego ochrony? Rozwiązanie tego paradoksu czytelnik znajdzie w niniejszej ks...

Editedby Rosemary Gray Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old. Likely to provoke laughter and sometimes to bring a sentimental tear to the driest eye, this festive treasure trove is ideal for reading aloud or curling up ...

W dzisiejszym świecie coraz częściej bije się na alarm z powodu zmian klimatycznych, zanieczyszczeń środowiska naturalnego, a także terroryzmu i wojen, głodu, chorób itp. Wszystko to zagraża naszej planecie i naszemu przetrwaniu na niej. Coraz częściej mówi się o tym, że zaradzić temu może przemiana świadomości – jednostkowej i globalnej. Temu właśnie ma służyć stworzony w Indiach przez Bhagawana i jego żonę Uniwersytet Jedności. Przyjeżdżają tam ludzie z całego świata – nauc...

Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look...

When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of 'Blackbeard' Mohune's lost treasure and Elzevir Block's secret. This dashing tale of eighteenth-century Dorset smugglers will be enjoyed by all who love stories of derring-do written ...

Osoby, które już zakupiły, bądź dopiero planują zakup pakietu Microsoft Office dla biura lub do celów prywatnych, wiedzą, jaki spory wydatek wiąże się z taką decyzją. Na szczęście istnieje darmowe rozwiązanie – Open Office, którym możesz z powodzeniem zastąpić ten pakiet w systemie Microsoft Windows. Zawiera on edytor tekstu, arkusz kalkulacyjny, narzędzia do rysowania oraz tworzenia prezentacji; a także wbudowaną bazę danych. W tej książce znajdziesz przydatne informacj...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating tales of the supernatural and the macabre, which are collected here in this volume. The real char...

Co się dzieje z mężczyzną po przekroczeniu granicy magicznej pięćdziesiątki? Rośnie wszerz, łysieje, traci wigor, jest senny, pogarsza mu się wzrok, zmniejsza refleks, dziwaczeje, traci pamięć, robi się leniwy, zaczyna pić, wypadają mu zęby, nie może się wysłowić… No, chyba już wystarczy! Czas pośmiać się z tego dzięki świetnym rysunkom i komentarzom Toni Goffego.

With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, i...

To było prawdziwe odkrycie, jakbyśmy znaleźli wiekowy skarb. Na remontowanym strychu starego katowickiego budynku leżał mocno nadgryziony zębem czasu, sporych rozmiarów rękopis - pamiętnik z lat 70., a w nim zapiski, zdjęcia, rysunki... - cały świat ówczesnej nastolatki. Nie wiemy, kim jest jego autorka, ale wiemy, co przeżywała, myślała, czuła. Być może rozpoznają ją Czytelnicy tej książki, znajomi naszej bohaterki z odległej już dziś epoki. A może tylko pozornie odległej? N...

Choroby układu pokarmowegoChoroby układu nerwowegoChoroby układu moczowegoPodręcznik adresowany jest przede wszystkim do studentów medycyny. Mamy nadzieję, że zainteresuje także szersze grono czytelników - przede wszystkim lekarzy pediatrów - i będzie użyteczny w nauce i pracy oraz pozwoli odpowiedzieć na wiele pytań dotyczących chorego dziecka. Powstał dzięki bogatemu doświadczeniu klinicznemu lekarzy - specjalistów pediatrii z Instytutu Pediatrii CM UJ. Szeroki przekrój zag...

Podręcznik adresowany jest przede wszystkim do studentów medycyny. Mamy nadzieję, że zainteresuje także szersze grono czytelników - przede wszystkim lekarzy pediatrów - i będzie użyteczny w nauce i pracy oraz pozwoli odpowiedzieć na wiele pytań dotyczących chorego dziecka. Powstał dzięki bogatemu doświadczeniu klinicznemu lekarzy - specjalistów pediatrii z Instytutu Pediatrii CM UJ oraz z najlepszych polskich ośrodków kardiologii dziecięcej. Szeroki przekrój zagadnień przedst...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, My Lad’, ‘The Tractate Mid...

A collection of eight of Aesop's best-loved fables retold for children growing in reading confidence. Sly foxes, thirsty storks and greedy dogs all feature in these fun stories, each with its own moral at the end. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University. Also available with an audio CD with a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.

We władaniu cieni to hołd złożony miłości i przyjaźni, której więzy zadzierzgnęły się w skrajnych warunkach wypraw górskich. Autor stawia nas przed największym z wyzwań filozofii: skoro pewne jest, że umrzemy, jakie wybierzemy życie? Opowieść o parze amerykańskich wspinaczy, którzy z pustynnego Joshua Tree przyjeżdżają do Czechosłowacji. Historia biegnie dwiema ścieżkami. Tom Valen, wykładający filozofię na uniwersytecie, pisze o roku, kiedy to on i jego żona Molly wyjecha...

W nowym uaktualnionym wydaniu podręcznik powiązano z bogatym materiałem rozszerzającym i uzupełniającym, dostępnym na specjalnie dedykowanych stronach internetowych. Uwzględniono również najnowsze informacje z zakresu chemii organicznej, zaakcentowano powiązania chemii organicznej z naukami biologicznymi, udoskonalono wizualizację wielu zagadnień oraz dodano nowe problemy do rozwiązania.

Bibliofilskie wydanie najpełniejszej dotąd monografii najstarszego (po Orderze Orła Białego), ustanowionego w 1765 roku przez króla Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego polskiego orderu. Był on nadawany do 1918 roku najpierw przez władców polskich, a następnie przez carów rosyjskich. Po odzyskaniu przez Polskę niepodległości w 1918 roku orderu nie wznowiono. Autor przedstawił dzieje orderu, kolejne jego statuty, listę osób uhonorowanych orderem do 1830 roku, systemy orderowe: za...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stori...

Zeszyt ćwiczeń do nauczania przedmiotu audycje muzyczne w klasach IV-VI szkół muzycznych i ogólnokształcących szkół muzycznych I stopnia.

Numer dopuszczenia: 8/2006.

A sensitive and informative guide to puberty for girls - tackling everything from body changes to mood swings, hormones and first periods. Bright, cartoon-style illustrations and scientific diagrams explain the physical and emotional changes of growing up in a simple and reassuring way, while the contents and index pages make key topics easy to find.Chapters in this book include:- Growing up- When will it happen?- Taller and wider- Getting hairy- Getting breasts- The bra busi...

Pierwszy tom podręcznika pediatrii, którego autorami są specjaliści z Instytutu Pediatrii Collegium Medicum UJ, adresowany jest głównie do studentów medycyny. W sposób wyczerpujący i usystematyzowany przedstawiono w nim zasady badania fizykalnego dziecka w różnych okresach jego rozwoju, a na podstawie aktualnie obowiązujących zaleceń podano zasady żywienia zdrowego i chorego dziecka oraz zasady profilaktyki w pediatrii. Ponadto w kolejnych rozdziałach omówiono semiotykę, a ta...

Choroby okresu noworodkowegoChoroby układu oddechowegoChoroby alergiczneChoroby tkanki łącznejGenetyka klinicznaPodręcznik adresowany jest przede wszystkim do studentów medycyny. Mamy nadzieję, że zainteresuje także szersze grono czytelników - przede wszystkim lekarzy pediatrów - i będzie użyteczny w nauce i pracy oraz pozwoli odpowiedzieć na wiele pytań dotyczących chorego dziecka. Powstał dzięki bogatemu doświadczeniu klinicznemu lekarzy -specjalistów pediatrii z Instytutu ...

Zeszyt z ćwiczeniami - tym razem poświęcony aplikacji Access 2000. Czytelnik znajdzie tu wiele praktycznych wskazówek dotyczących obsługi i samodzielnego projektowania baz danych.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Roman...

FROM THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 48 LAWS OF POWER AND THE 33 STRATEGIES OF WAR 'Just reading the table of contents is enough to stir a little corner-office lust' New York Magazine'Astonishing' The Times 'Teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause' Independent on Sunday When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and captured great minds. Immerse yourself ...

Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market fo...

With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy’s enduringly popular masterpiece. Initially, the plot centres on Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife, Irene. A pillar of the late-Victorian upper middle class, wealthy and well-connected, he seems to lead an enviable life. But beneath the respectable exterior lie acute tensions and frustrations. The marriage of Soames and Irene culminates i...

Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during t...

Książka stanowi publikację wykładu wygłoszonego przez abpa J. Życińskiego, jako laureata dorocznie przyznawanej przez TN KUL nagrody im. ks. Idziego Radziszewskiego. Nagroda ta przyznawana jest za całokształt dorobku naukowego w duchu humanizmu chrześcijańskiego. Treść książki stanowią laudacja prof. dr hab. Władysława Stróżewskiego oraz wykład ks. prof. dr hab. Józefa Życińskiego na temat: „Kosmiczna perspektywa kulturowej ewolucji człowieka”.

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeate...

W podręczniku podano podstawowe wiadomości z zakresu wyposażenia laboratorium, zasad pobierania próbek do analiz w przemyśle spożywczym oraz analizy ilościowej, wagowej i objętościowej. Omówiono metody oznaczania węglowodanów, białek tłuszczów oraz kwasowości w produktach spożywczych. Podano również ogólne wiadomości o analizie mikrobiologicznej żywności, powietrza, wody i sprzętu.

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force – flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in their own units – made a tremendous contribution to the Allied air victory. The PAFs gallant, lonely fight in September 1939 inflicted the first losses on the mighty Luftwaffe and allowed Britain a nine month grace to strengthen her air defenses. Their part in the Battle of Britain be...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 - an enthr...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable sp...

With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eight...

With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences'. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and inter...

Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the ‘father’ of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution by the Church as a consequence, Descartes in his writings - most of which are philosophical classics - attempt...

This exquisite, deluxe edition contains the complete illustrated texts of both Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. In full-color and featuring a satin ribbon marker, it is the perfect gift and a cornerstone of every family's bookshelf. Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A. A. Milne, who wrote two books of Pooh's adventures for his son, Christopher R...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures s...

Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why di...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder a...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending. With characteristic derision, he exposes t...

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed in much of america in the late nineteenth century. Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-pac...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The drama show...

With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirl...

With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit. Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life - the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of the press-gang and invasion, and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar. He interweaves...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history ...

Selected by Rosemary Gray. Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour, all are guaranteed to capture the imagination, stir the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the reader's appetite for more. In this book, Wor...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remained in print, a source of delight to generations of readers, and a major literary influence, much imitated but never equalled. If you...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic f...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance and trust. This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns, chosen from ...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a seminal ‘chase’ thriller, rapid and vivid. It has been widely influential and frequently dramatised: the film directed by A...

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes… it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur… and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. ‘It’ was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are too difficult to spend, wings let them down in a most inconvenien...

With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World. Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heav...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shak...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of comédie humaine against the settings of a Venetia...

The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp, the Enchanted Horse, the Princess Badoura, Sinbad the Sailor, and t...

These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos. Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales ...

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family ...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of ...

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolve...

Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, p...

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