![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England.įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English ![]()
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![]() ![]() Luke's carrying some baggage, but he makes Emma's heart stop every time he appears. Then there's separated, charismatic, wealthy Luke Sullivan. For Emma there's sexy, adorable Preston, a self-proclaiming ?fun guy,? beautiful Alice, who's a lesbian, and a string of Matts who go from bad to worse. ![]() Go on some dates with these 42 and 44 year-old adorable sisters who are both looking for love and your jaw will surely drop! Laura's mixed bag includes Dan, a selfish womanizer, Ari, a stalker, and Tim, a compulsive liar. A dispute over the house forces Laura to move in with her sister and that's when the fun begins. Laura's husband just dumped her for one of four women he's been sleeping with. Emma's a widow and a single mother with a guilty secret she can't let go. Both are newly single and trying out the dating scene after marriage. But now, the two have something in common. Emma's always been the party girl, Laura, the hardworking doctor. Emma and Laura are about as different as two sisters can be. ![]() Your free gift with purchase doesn't always come from a department store makeup counter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain’s lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain-and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. First edition published in 1881, this is a latter printing with the ads dated 1886. Small Octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black and gilt embossed imprint to cover and spine. Xxiv+613++ pages with black and white frontispiece and 234 illustrations. Author: Mark Twain (PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens) ![]() ![]() I swapped The Notebook for my copy of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. You have to pay for postage, but it’s a great way to liven up your book collection. You post a list of your books on the site, then find a book you want and the owner of that book will pick one of yours to swap with. ![]() I actually got this book via a book swap on a site called Read It Swap It. A book about normal people? No magic or dragons? No thanks! So many people had recommended it to me, either as the book or the film. ![]() I read all three of the Hunger Games books in two weeks. But I didn’t listen to them, I was fine with my Harry Potters and my Twilights, books I knew I liked. All of my friends were going on and on about this amazing book that I should read. When the Hunger Games came out, I had no interest in reading it. ![]() I tend to come late to most fandoms which is good because it means there’s more story for me. I like to come to books when I’m good and ready, not just because everyone saus I should. For some reason, if everyone likes a book, if they’re all raving about it, I stay away from it. ![]() ![]() The consequences of the past two years are catching up to her, and she must face her worse fears, even if it means going against everything she tried to avoid. With a battle brewing in the near future, Violet knows that she must fight for her position to save those she loves or stand on the sidelines. With her new powers from Phoenix, she is able to build guards against her emotions and powers, which distract her from the pain, and help her to grow stronger and become a better fighter.īut when an old friend appears at her apartment door to deliver news about someone she swore to protect, Violet knows the only hope lies with her. She has learnt to switch off her emotions and survive the soul crushing ache she feels for her soulmate and former grigori partner, Lincoln, by getting into the bloodlust of killing exiles with the Rogue grigori of London city. ![]() It’s been two years since Violet Eden left her old life behind to protect those she loves against the danger that she attracts. ![]() ![]() Empower is the final heart-racing book in the Violet Eden Chapters, also known as the Embrace Series by Jessica Shirvington. ![]() ![]() There are well-born ladies and lowly woodsmen, sailors and smugglers, witches and Cistercian monks, who live in the lovely abbey of Beaulieu. The New Forest is the perfect backdrop for the families who people this epic story - a story that makes clear the connections between the dark, dangerous, sensuous life of the primeval forest and the genteel life of Georgian and Regency society. ![]() The mighty oaks of the forest were used to build the ships for Admiral Nelson's navy, and the fishermen who lived in Christchurch and Lymington helped Sir Francis Drake fight off the Spanish Armada. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the Conqueror's son Rufus was mysteriously killed. ![]() In the heart of the New Forest itself, some one hundred thousand acres of forest and heath sweep down to the Solent water and the Isle of Wight and overlook the English Channel just beyond.įrom the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest has remained a mysterious, powerful, almost mythical place. To its west runs the river Avon, from Sarum to the harbor at Christchurch, and to its east the port of Southampton. ![]() The New Forest lies in a vast bowl scooped from England's southern coast. ![]() In The Forest, Edward Rutherfurd, whose greatly admired Sarum and London have captivated millions of readers, now unfolds the saga of nine turbulent centuries in the life of the quintessential English the New Forest. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is only one subject - Arsenal Football Club - that can provoke that kind of simultaneous activity. They surrendered them as normal on Friday morning, and I sat down to read the paper in the suddenly peaceful house, but then the phones all started to buzz and ping at the same time. Every morning, my boys and the friends that walk to school with them leave theirs in our kitchen, where they lie still and silent until the end of the educational day. LONDON - The school that my sons attend, a stone's throw from Highbury Stadium, a slingshot from the Emirates, does not allow mobile phones on the premises. (Editors' note: We asked Nick Hornby - novelist and screenwriter who wrote about his obsessive fandom of Arsenal in "Fever Pitch" - to assess the news that Arsene Wenger was leaving Arsenal Football Club after 22 years as manager.) Nick Hornby: Arsenal free to dream of better future after Arsene Wenger exit You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing first for small children, and then for young adults, Myers’s themes ranged from sports, to science fiction, to biography, to African and African American history, to fantasy, to adventure and even to mystery. Myers wrote for men’s adventure magazines, then won a Writers Digest contest sponsored by the Council for Interracial Books for Children with his story Where Does The Day Go?, in 1969. ![]() ![]() After serving in the United States Army from 1957 to 1960, Myers worked at the Harlem Post Office and the New York State Department of Labor he also attended classes at City College of New York, Columbia University, and at SUNY Empire State College, where he graduated in 1984.Įncouraged by John Oliver Killens, Myers published his first poem in the Delta Review in 1962. 125 and JHS 143, but dropped out of Stuyvesant High School twice once in 1952, and again in 1954. Growing up on 121st and Morningside in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Myers, a troubled youth, struggled with a speech impediment but loved to read. At age two, Myers’s mother, Mary Green, died, and Florence Brown Dean, his father’s ex-wife and her husband, Herbert Dean, raised him. Author of over seventy children’s and young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was born Walter Milton Myers on August 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. ![]() More importantly, it's a place where Nat won't be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.īut passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson there. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called "the Blue." They say it's a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.Īt the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature - freezing. Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. A major new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Bloods. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Re-Animator” follows the dedicated medical student Dan Cain ( Bruce Cabbot) and his girlfriend Megan (the lovely and bold scream queen Barbra Crampton) who become involved in bizarre experiments involving the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student named Herbert West ( Jeffrey Combs) becomes Dan’s roommate. Why You Should Care: With so many versions of Mary Shelley’s classic “ Frankenstein” existing even prior to 1985, it’s a wonder that no one ever turned Shelley’s tale on its bloodied head before gore maestro Stuart Gordon. ![]() So without further ado, stare directly into your television screens and tune into any one of these superb flicks just in time for Halloween, all available on home video. Well fortunately, plenty of the major studios and boutique home entertainment labels have been popping out releases of some of our favorite genre fare. The time of year when ghosts and goblins roam the streets on All Hallow’s Eve, and the rest of us adults stay inside and watch horror films (or so we say). Attention boys and girls, it’s almost that time again. ![]() |