Lionel is a wild boy, who doesn't much like to be around other people. He'd rather be a purring cat or a wolf stalking the woods. Marybeth is a nice girl. She doesn't need to be told to comb her hair or brush her teeth, and she's kind to eberyone at the orphanage.. Lionel most of all. Different throught they are, Lionel and Marybeth are best friends in a world that has forgotten about the…
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a briliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here. Which…
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier;s renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be 'this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracte…
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Knocked unconscious, it is only when mechanic Hank Morgan comes to that he finds himself in 6th-century England rather than 19th-century America. surrounded by the traditions and customs of Camelot and King Arthur's court, Morgan dislikes the hereditary social class structure and state church and attemps to instill his Amer…
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim-that if finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and…
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comis triumph and firmly established Dickens as a'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightfulMrs. Nickleby, taking in the eccectric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the K…
Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. On its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contesred identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, O…
What's the best way to get to know yourself? a) Stare in a mirror b) Ask your BFFS to write an essay about you c) Keep a diary OMG, the answer is totally c! As Nikki Maxwell knows, writting a diary is a GREAT way to keep track of everything going on in YOUR life. And in this special diary, Nikki asks and you answer... If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and …
LIES WILL BE EXPOSED. SECRETS WILL BE UNCOVERED. LOYALTIES WILL BE PROVEN. TOU WILL NEVER SEE. THE TRUTH COMING. BEFORE THE MAZE THERE WAS... THE FEVER CODE