Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could itu have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea peison? As Arthur gets to know the Do…
Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But, life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if you are a child from the wrong social class... or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stori…
'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man.' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learnsthat there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?
Did Atlantis ever exist, or is it just a legend? Read about some of the explorers who tried to solve this age-old mystery.
Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron, these are five of the most amazing athletes in baseball history. From the first black man to play major-league ball to the longest hitting streak ever, these are some of the game's most inspiring stories. Find out what unforgettable feats won each player a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph ans Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times t…
Bagi Black Beauty, hidup bahagia adalah dapat berlari-lari dengan bebas di padang rumput yang luas. Ia menghabiskan tahun-tahun pertamanya bersama sang ibu, yang mengajarinya untuk selalu berperilaku baik dan bekerja dengan tulus serta melakukan yang terbaik. Namun, kehidupan tidak memberikan kemewahan semacam itu. Sejak usia empat, ia berganti-ganti pemilik dan mengalami berbagai perlakuan da…
Bagi Black Beauty, hidup bahagia adalah dapat berlari-lari dengan bebas di padang rumput yang luas. Ia menghabiskan tahun-tahun pertamanya bersama sang ibu, yang mengajarinya untuk selalu berperilaku baik dan bekerja dengan tulus serta melakukan yang terbaik. Namun, kehidupan tidak memberikan kemewahan semacam itu. Sejak usia empat, ia berganti-ganti pemilik dan mengalami berbagai perlakuan da…
Black Beauty adalah seekor kuda cantik yang tinggal di Victoria, Inggris. Ia memiliki masa kecil yang membahagiakan karena dibesarkan di pinggiran kota yang damai. Menginjak dewasa, ia menderita sakit parah dan kandangnya terbakar. Sudah jatuh, tertimpa tangga pula. Black Beauty nerpindah tangan ke majikan baru, yang menyewanya hanya untuk mencari untung. Kuda cantik ini mengalami berbagai perl…
Novel klasik ini bertutur tentang seorang wanita yang menjadi korban kejamnya sanksi sosial dalam struktur masyarakat ouritan yang hipokrit. Hester Prynne, istri seorang dari keluarga terpandang, meninggalkan Eropa berlayar menuju dunia baru, Amerika. Dia berangkat duluan, suaminya menyusul belakangan. Setelah dua tahun tinggal seorang diri di Boston, suami Hester tak kunjung datang. Terjadilah…