Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. Tales of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal join Mowgli's journey.
Meet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. In the almost one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood-continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow…
The original editions are back - the way they were first written. Beginning in 1959, the Nancy Drew stories were updated, rewritten, and condensed, and these old editions went out of print.
Nancy must figure out the connection between a mysterious diary and a suspicious house fire.
"Banyak yang hendak saya nyatakan, apakah yang dapat menghalangi saya, kalau menurut keyakinan saya, saya patut berbicara? Karena cara saya melahirkan keyakinan akan dicela setengah orang? Karena soal yang saya kemukakan, menurut setengah orang mesti didiamkan? Karena saya akan dihinakan orang? Karena saya akan dimaki? Kalau keyakinan sudah menjadi pohon beringin, robohlah segala pertimbang…
"I like the book because it's an adventure book and a comic it's about 3 mans that found a 300 years old book that have a message and that 3 mans is going to the center of the earth maybe they can go out alive or go out losing there lives found out in this cool mysterious book" Denna y4
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting i…
ading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, …
Mrs Woolf first became known to the wider reading public with the publication of A Room of One's Own in 1929. But the year before that, her novel To the Lighthouse had been awarded the Northcliffe and Femina Vie Heureuse prizes. It has since been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Virginia Woolf's technique was all her own. In the words of Naomi Royd…
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society.