A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explore...

C'est l'histoire d'une femme mal mariée, de son médiocre époux, de ses amants égoïstes et vains, de ses rêves, de ses chimères, de sa mort. C'est l'histoire d'une province étroite, dévote et bourgeoise. C'est, aussi, l'histoire du roman français. Rien, dans ce tableau, n'avait de quoi choquer la société du Second Empire. Mais, inexorable comme une tragédie, flamboyant comme un drame, mordant comme une comédie, le livre s'était donné une arme redoutable : le style. Pour ce vrai...

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father.

After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds...

Uit het leven van een hond beslaat een dag uit het leven van Henk van Doorn, 56, ic-verpleegkundige, alleenstaand. Het is een doodgewone zaterdag totdat blijkt dat Henks hond ziek is en binnen afzienbare tijd zal sterven. Dat gegeven gaat als een sleepnet over de bodem van de dag en haalt de gebruikelijke gedachten boven: dat de tijd maar één richting kent; dat we zo kwetsbaar zijn; dat we zo eenzaam zijn, hoeveel liefde we ook vinden. Maar somber wordt het verhaal nergens dankzij Henks tal...

Ineke Tavenier trekt de voordeur achter zich dicht van het mooie, statige huis op de Keizersgracht, waar ze op gesprek is geweest. Ze is nog beduusd van wat ze net heeft gehoord over de bewoners die zij gaat verplegen. Het is nauwelijks te bevatten dat de twee oude mensen zo’n groot geheim al zo lang verborgen houden voor de buitenwereld.

Ineke weet niet dat er nog een geheim schuilgaat achter de voordeur en dat deze interne klus haar leven compleet zal veranderen.

De prijs van geheimen ...

★★★★★ A deeply personal story told brilliantly!

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Jeanette's happily ever after with Benedict and the kids comes to an unexpected end. She remains adamant and refuses to go back or see Benedict despite his continued efforts to see her. The kids justify their actions until Mrs. Manny opens their eyes. Will they be able to come to terms with the fact that they're wrong? Will they make it in time to right the wrongs?

WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. This special edition lifts the lid on Hemingway’s creative process.

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his disco...

Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men.

Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde...

The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This edition also includes: biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the fourth edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Also included are fifteen critical essays, twelve of them new to the fourth edition, reflecting the finest current scholarship.

Contributors include Janet Todd, Jim Co...