Wuthering heights: a retelling

The night that Heathcliff, an unkempt orphan, arrives at the Heights, Cathy’s life will change for ever … but theirs will not be a happy love story. From a harsh childhood to a foolish marriage, a troubled path of pain and punishment lies ahead. Yet no matter how they suffer, they cannot stay apart – for whatever souls are made of, Cathy’s and Heathcliff’s are the same. After all thes…

The prime of miss Jean Brodie

'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into …

Frankenstein: a retelling

A thrilling gothic tale of hubris gone badly wrong. A young man’s search for the secret of the spark of life leads him to a horrific experiment in which he creates a gigantic creature from dismembered body parts. Rejected by his creator, the initially gentle creature turns monstrous when his desire to find companionship and love are thwarted. Tanya Landman revisits Mary Shelley’s classic Go…

Macbeth (folger Shakespeare library)

In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of violence and stories of traitors advised by witches and wizards, echoing James’s belief in a connection between treason and witchcraft. In depicting a man who murder…

Cinderella

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ISBN/ISSN

9781782705673

Collation

24 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm

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F BIR c

His last bow sherlock holmes: the greatest detective of them all

'About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe'. A dense yellow fog descends upon London. Tricksters, thieves and murderers stalk their prey undetected. Lawlessness abounds but it is no match for the penetrating mind of Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the strangest of cases. A woman receiv…

The Beatrix Potter collection: volume one

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ISBN/ISSN

9781840227239

Collation

416 p. ; ill. ; 19,5 cm

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F POT t

The Happy Prince And Other Tales

“It is curious,” he remarked, “but I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold.” “That is because you have done a good action,” said the Prince.

Stories of winnie the pooh with favourite poems

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ISBN/ISSN

9780603550607

Collation

95 p. ; ill. ; 28,5 cm

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Call Number

F MIL s

The man in the brown suit

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ISBN/ISSN

9780062986405

Collation

320 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

Colonel Race #1

Call Number

823 CHR t