Step on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare, re told to be accessible for children. Get lost in Shakespeare's most loved stories with this beautiful anthology of some of the most popular stories in the world. Introduce the children in your life to a collection of the most important stories every written, collected and retold by the much-loved author Angela McAllister. Featuring classics such...

When Jack Holden salvages an abandoned sailboat, the Sea-Lark, he sets up a ferry business. But strange events start happening that threaten his new enterprise. First, shadowy figures sneak aboard late at night, trying to steal something. Then Jack catches another prowler red-handed and a struggle ensues. After that, two shady men hire the Sea-Lark for a sail but turn on Jack and his friend Rodney, marooning them. Why are these men so desperate to...

Toward the close of the year 1657, a very plain carriage, with no arms painted on it, stopped, about eight o'clock one evening, before the door of a house in the rue Hautefeuille, at which two other coaches were already standing. A lackey at once got down to open the carriage door; but a sweet, though rather tremulous voice stopped him, saying, 'Wait, while I see whether this is the place.'

"Ya sabe usted, Watson, que una de las maldiciones de una mente como la mía es que tengo que mirarlo todo desde el punto de vista de mi especialidad. Usted mira esas casas dispersas y se siente impresionado por su belleza. Yo las miro, y el único pensamiento que me viene a la cabeza es lo aisladas que están, y la impunidad con que puede cometerse un crimen en ellas. [...] Siempre me han producido un cierto horror. Tengo la convicción, Watson,...

"El crítico como artista", de Oscar Wilde, es una exploración elocuente y sugerente de la naturaleza de la crítica y del papel del crítico en el ámbito artístico. Wilde cuestiona las nociones convencionales de la crítica y defiende la importancia de la interpretación subjetiva y el individualismo en la apreciación del arte. El autor profundiza en la idea de que el verdadero crítico es, de hecho, un artista por derecho propio, que contribuye...

Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day-in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded.

Extrait: "Nous étions dans la plus belle saison de l'année. Mon jardin réunissant tout ce qu'on peut s'imaginer d'agréable dans une campagne, je proposai à Théophé d'y prendre l'air après souper. Nous fîmes quelques tours dans les plus belles allées. L'obscurité n'était pas si profonde que je ne crusse avoir aperçu dans divers enfoncements la figure d'un homme."

Extrait : "Depuis un mois, le large soleil jette aux champs sa flamme cuisante. La vie radieuse éclot sous cette averse de feu ; la terre est verte à perte de vue. jusqu'aux bords de l'horizon, le ciel est bleu. les fermes normandes semées par la plaine semblent, de loin, de petits bois, enfermées dans leur ceinture de hêtres élancés. De près, quand on croit voir un jardin géant, car tous les antiques pommiers, osseux comme les paysans, sont...

Tony Walsh is loving life. Married to the woman of his dreams, living in the most awesome apartment in Manchester, and thriving in a job he loves with great friends, life couldn't get much sweeter. And, with his seventh wedding anniversary coming up, he has spent months planning the most romantic night to celebrate the milestone in style. He even has the 'let's start a family' talk planned. Nothing could make his life more perfect. But Margaret, the...

The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist...