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1, 2, 3 in Neverland by Maggie Fischer; Kelly Breemer (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Clever Classics Ser.
Let's count with Peter Pan in this colorful board book There's magic in Neverland, everywhere you look Watch out for the pirate with 1 shiny hook Do you believe in fairies, believe with all your heart? Can you see Tinker Bell's 2 wings sparkle in the dark? 1...2...3 Learn to count to 10 with Peter ...Show more
10 by Geoff Andrew
Category: Performing Arts | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (199 ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
Category: No Category | Series: Exile Classics
Forty years after Pablo Neruda s death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of his lesser-known genre. Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous f ...Show more
100 Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 f ...Show more
101 BEST-LOVED POEMS by SMITH, PHILIP
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Large Print Classics
This large-print anthology contains some of the most popular poems in the English language dating from the 16th to the 20th century All have been carefully chosen not just for their popularity but for literary quality as well. Among the selections are Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." Sha ...Show more
12 Years a Slave (Word Cloud Classics) by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent th ...Show more
1788: Text Classics by Watkin Tench
Category: Australiana | Series: Text Classics
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was a natural storyteller ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party ...Show more
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Big Brother is Watching You.’ Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Classics Illustrated) by Jules Verne
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Classics Illustrated
The adventures of Captain Nemo and his captives and crew on his submarine, the Nautilus. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study questions.