Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation
Language
English
Description
A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener. Includes: "Reginald on House Parties" by Saki, read by Nigel Hawthorne; "The Sphinx Without a Secret" by Oscar Wilde, read by Martin Jarvis; "Tobermory" by Saki, read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt; "On Being Idle" by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Hugh Laurie; "For Better or Worse" by W.W. Jacobs, read
...Author
Language
English
Description
Includes standard notation and tab for 22 Carter-style solos from bluegrass classics such as: Back Up and Push * The Big Rock Candy Mountain * Cotton Eyed Joe * Down Yonder * Jesse James * John Henry * Little Sadie * Man of Constant Sorrow * Midnight Special * Mule Skinner Blues * Red Wing * Uncle Joe * The Wabash Cannon Ball * Wildwood Flower * and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tank Girl was originally published in the legendary Deadline Magazine between the years of 1988 to 1995. Drawn and written, for the most part, by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, it mixed punk aesthetic with Looney Tune style adventures. In this anniversary series we reappraise the initial run of comics, giving them a shiny new full-color treatment in a style consistent with their age and original production, and add context with artwork, strips, and...
Author
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
Jeder kennt die unheimliche Legende vom Kloster am Großen Bärenkopf - von den teuflischen Mönchen, die einen Pakt mit Asmodis geschlossen haben sollen. Aber niemand bekam sie bisher zu Gesicht. Als Roger Busceau Nachforschungen zu dem geheimnisvollen Kloster anstellt, findet man ihn am nächsten Morgen tot in seiner Wohnung. Ein Fall für John Sinclair!
Basierend auf den ersten John Sinclair-Romanen erzählt die CLASSICS-Reihe wie alles begann...
11) Adam Bede
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stern and highminded hero, Adam Bede, loves the vain and selfish Hetty Sorrel, but their happiness is ruined when Hetty is seduced by a young squire.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Mr. Midshipman Easy is a tale of bravery, foolishness, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently funny, often profound, Marryat's novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction that has been adapted twice for British cinema.
"'Then, father, all I have to say is, that I swear...
13) Sister Carrie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.
14) The golden bowl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The close relationship between American millionaire Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie threatens their respective marriages.
15) Of human bondage
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
A club-footed orphan struggles for independence, his intellectual development and his attempt to become an artist.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. 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... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
20) Catch-22
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base. This satirical, historical novel is set during the later stages of World War II from 1944 onwards. It has a distinctive non-chronological style where events are described from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request