The March sisters may not have much, but they have each other. Join Meg, Jo, Amy, dan Beth as they grow from girls into young women, learning about life, friendship, and the power of the love along the way.rnrnWith Classic Starts, young readers can experience the wonder of timelessstories from an early age. Abridged for easier reading and carefully rewritten, each classic novel is filled with a…
Eleven-year-old Rebecca Randall is quite a handful-and now she's leaving her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with her well-to-do elderly aunts and get an education. But they were expecting Rebecca's quiet, hard-working older sister instead. Can the bright-eyed and talkative girl win them over...especially her strict, rule-bound Aunt Miranda? Just as Rebecca's grand spirit" charms everyone in th…
From the first she saw Green Gables, Anne Shirley knew she had finally founf a place to call home. Join Anne asa she experinces the pains and joys of becoming part of a family and growing up in the remote Canadian village of Avonlea.rnrnWith Classic Starts, young readers can experience the wonder of timeless stories from an early age. Abridged for easier reading and carefully rewritten, each cl…
Aramis knows a remarkable secret .... and has a bold plan to put into action. Philip, a young man held inside a Frenchprison since a childhood, is the identical twin of King Louis XIV. Philip's real identity is known to only a few people, including the bishop, Aramis, who has a plan to replace the king. Will the plot succeed? And can Aramis rely on his freiends Porthos, Athos, and D'Artagnan t…
Presents a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick.Amazon Review Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the cultural…
Step inside the shadows world of medieval Paris and into the ill-fated lives of Quadimodo, the grotesque bell ringer of the Notre-Dame acthedral; the tortured archdeacon Claude Frollo; Esmeralda, the beatiful gypsy dancer and the handsome Captain Phoebus, who tricks Esmeralda into thinking he loves her. This dark and haunting tale of guilt, love, hope, and redemption will keep you on the edge o…
Hard Times is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire.rnIt depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedomuntil their sporot is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pom…
Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and aher four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of nice Mr. Bingley and arrogant Mr. Darcy in the neighbourhood turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.
Congratulations! You've been chosen as one of Odin's brave warriors, and you've made it to the Hotel Valhalla. Now what? This can't-live-without guide to the gods and goddesses, mythical beings, and fantastic creatures of the nine Norse Worlds was prepared just for you, honored guest. It provides essential stats, interviews, stories, and personal reflections, so you can avoid those awkward i…
It is difficult to imagine a work of greater dramatic intensity than Macbeth. It portrays the most violent of passions. It makes extraordinary demands upon the audience's emotions. It raises fundamental questions about what it means to be human. And it suggests that the beginning of wisdom - and the antidote to those excesses that promote self-destruction - is a judgement tempered by humality, …