'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'Allen Ginsberg's poetry fomented a...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories –...
His journey through the East began in 1271--when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His...
'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Is any writer as closely associated with...
'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must'What is the true meaning of power?...
The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human lifeHow do we carry on...
Tom has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind. But luckily his good friend Huck loves adventure as much as he...
Robin Hood, the noble outlaw of Sherwood Forest, who robs the rich to aid the poor. Follow him and his friends Little...
Na sloupu vysoko nad městem stojí socha Šťastného prince, celá pokrytá tenkými plátky zlata. Když princ vidí chudobu a zoufalství svého lidu,...
Roddy and David, two boys discovering together the unsinkable Titanic during its one and only sail from Southampton to the USA. Different...
The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written ",partly for...
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous...
From the exquisite lyric “To Helen,” to the immortal masterpieces “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells,” and “The Raven,” The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates...
Use this play-script version to prepare a fun and amusing stage version of the English legend of Robin Hood. In this Reader you will...
A young beggar boy meets the Prince of Wales by chance. It is a moment that will change their lives forever. Two boys...
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'I truly thought I'd never make it back.'Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'A pair...
'Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant...