In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassant's most famous tales, "The Necklace," and "Le Horla," a tale with strange parallels to the author's own
Lewis Carrolls novels Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, and playfu
Explore the magical worlds of Disney and Pixar with 50 mazes from your favourite animated films. Your Disney and Pixar friends need you! Help Snow White escape from the Queen, get Cinderella to the ball, free Elsa from the ice grip, find Dory with Marlin and Nemo, learn to sail with Moana, help the Incredible Family catch Screenslaver, and find Forky with Buzz and the other toys. Relive the magic of your favourite Disney and Pixar animated films with these intricate full-colour mazes.Enter a world of fantasy and navigate a path that passes through 50 Disney and Pixar animation movie lands. Each maze is cleverly designed so that the end of one maze is the beginning of the next. Perfect for readers aged 7+.Includes mazes from the following feature films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Pinocchio; Dumbo; Bambi; Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland; Peter Pan; Lady and the Tramp; Sleeping Beauty; 101 Dalmatians; The Sword in the Stone; The Jungle Book; The Aristocats; The Fox and the Hound; Th
In Roxana Robinson’s lucid and elegant prose, her characters’ inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These p
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlast
Named a Best Book of 2015 by Publisher's Weekly“Holmes trains a precise lens on the millennial generation’s mixed bag of manners, mores, and machinations… In [these] beautifully brazen stories, worlds
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks a
Described as “all under Heaven,” the Chinese empire might have extended infinitely, covering all worlds and cultures. That ideology might have been convenient for the state, but what did late imperial
This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit", both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704.
Fiction. "What Gessner does best, perhaps, is create microcosms—self-contained worlds in which he has made up the rules and established the action. I'm reminded of a drop of water, which, under van Le
The Mountie at Niagara Falls is a collection of brief stories from Toronto author Salvatore Difalco. Ranging in length from 50-700 words, these fictional forays transport the reader to worlds both bi
As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. Portals investigates how we move beyond the conscious
James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy a
You can't choose who you fall in love with, they say.; If only it were that simple.; Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds - school and teenage crushes in one, and the expectat
Rankin's far-fetched steampunk sequel to The War of the Worlds!?It's 1895; nearly a decade since Mars invaded Earth, chronicled by H.G. Wells in The War of the Worlds. Wrecked Martian spaceships, back
Control self assessment is sweeping the management and auditing worlds by storm. At last we have in just one place the authoritative guide to its practical application. Until now CSA had been shrouded
Now includes discussion questions and contemplation exercises for individual study and reading groups.Ana Levy-Lyons, a public theologian who is equally at home in secular and religious worlds, offers
