On his first voyage, Gulliver finds himself in Liliput, a land where everybodu and everything is one twelfth his size. Then his travels take him to Brobdingnag, a land of giants. Through his experiences, both funny and frightening, he learns many things about people and customs in different cultures.
There is a war in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of British soldiers have died in the fighting there. This story is about one of them
Peter, a long distance lorry driver, gives a lift to a 16 years ole hitch hiker outside Bristol. As the boy confides in him, Peter discovers that John has run away from home after a violent row with his uncle. The police are making anationwide search for John. John's uncle has been found dead ang the police want to question the boy.
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…
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.rnAnd then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restle…
One miscarriage too many spelled the end of Max and Zoe Baxter's marriage. Though the former couple went quite separate ways, their fates remained entangled: After veering into alcoholism, Max is saved in multiple senses by his fundamentalist conversion; Zoe, for her part, finds healing relief in music therapy and the friendship, then romantic love with Vanessa, her counselor. After Zoe and Van…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time, The Storyteller, and Nineteen Minutes...rnrnTo the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But…
Emily bronte only wrote one novel and this passionate and violet story of the earnshaw and linton families has become one of the most enduring in british fiction. i have just returned from a visit to mr. Heathcliff. He was standing by a gate as i arrived at wuthering heigts early this afternoon. Happy reading
This story is set in medieval England, in a time when King Richard is imprisoned aboard and Norman noblemen are surpressing the Saxons, rnIvanhoe, the Disinterited Knight, returns to England from the Holy Land to win his love, the beautiful Lady Rowena, and fight for justice for the Saxon people. He is helped by an old Jews, Isaac of York, and his daughter, Rebecca, but the evil Norman Knight, …
It's about New York in 1922 Nick Carraway buys a house on Long Island. The house next door is owned by the fabulously rich and handsome Jay Gatsby. Nick's cousin, Daisy is young, beautiful and desperately unhappily intermediary between the reunited lovers, Daisy and Gatsby.