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• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 30 Aug 2012

"I dreamed ... I dreamed just now that something - it was in the shape of a man - followed me - came softly to me - wouldn't let me be - but was always hiding and crouching, like a cat in dark corners, waiting till I should pass; when it crept out and came softly after me ..." Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Charles Dickens's novel < ... more

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Join Bluey, Bingo, Bandit and Chilli for some fun in this carry case containing six awesome hardback story books! Stories included: The Beach Goodnight Fruit Bat The Creek The Pool Grannies ... more

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• Data publicatie:: 01/03/2018

After the fall After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is a broken egg. Life is tough: he's so afraid of heights, he can't even bear to climb onto his bed, or reach his favourite cereal on the top shelf at the supermarket. But one day, fuelled by his passion for bird-watching, he decides to conquer his fears and something amazing happens...& ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 31 May 2012

'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance set beforehand. I seem to see all that can be - and I am tired and sick of it. And the world is all confusion to me' Poised at a roulette table, prepared to throw away a small fortune, Gwendolen Harleth fascinates Daniel Deronda. But their lives depart drastically, as the ... more

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• Data publicatie:: 28 Jun 2012

'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money' Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged es ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 25 Oct 2012

'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light' Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially. Th ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 31 May 2012

'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!' Raised in rural seclusion, the beautiful Evelina's entrance to the world of fashionable London sees her collide with the manners and customs of a society she doesn't understand. Victim of the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby and the appearance of her vulgar, capric ... more

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• Data publicatie:: 26 Jul 2012

'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name mingled with theirs in the daily newspapers' Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to m ... more

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Titles in the Set :1. Mr Biff the Boxer2. Master Track's Train3. Miss Dirt the Dustman's Daughter4. Mr Creep the Cook5. Mrs Vole the Vet6. Mrs Wobble the Waitress ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 31 May 2012

'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my soul abhors?' The gout-ridden and irascible squire Matthew Bramble makes his way across Britain with his family, and finds himself everywhere surrounded by decadents, pimps and con-men, made to bathe in befouled water and to suffer raucousness ... more

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• Data publicatie:: 06 Dec 2012

'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!' Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a b ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 28 Jun 2012

'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?' Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, Joseph Andrews depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lasci ... more

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A collection fit for the (Egyptian) gods! All three paperback books in the blockbuster Kane Chronicles trilogy-The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent's Shadow-are together at last in a beautiful package. This boxed set is sure to be treasured by readers of all ages, whether they're experiencing Sadie and Carter's amazing adventures for the first time or are faithful fans eager to devour the saga a ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Apr 2012

'Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair, but she made no answer to the ghastly charge of her accuser.' Robert Audley is pleased for his uncle when he brings home a pretty young bride, even though her past is shrouded in mystery. But when his old friend Talboys is treated strangely by Lady Audley, then ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 28 Jun 2012

'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?' When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Ma ... more