With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financiar, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangeset cases of her life.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and …
'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody - not really.' When a scrawny, freckled girl with bright red hair arrives on Prince Edward Island, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are taken by surprise; they'd asked the orphanage for a quiet boy to help with the farmwork at Green Gables. But how can you reject a child like an unwanted …
'All life lessons are not learned at college. Life teaches them everywhere.' At eighteen years old, Anne is leaving Green Gables for university-- her life's dream. But her feelings are bittersweet: although excited to see the world, she is heartbroken to leave her her home and everyone she loves. Before long she has made new friends-- including handsome Roy Gardner, who seems to have step…
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun...A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet.
When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso's memorable full-colour illustrations.