A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

Hamlet

Shakespeare., William

Penguin Press/Classics

A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately - restored.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of "A Little Princess", one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.

A Little Princess

Burnett, Frances H.

When "Lord Jim" first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation - a ripping good yarn, if you like (one critic in The Academy complained that the narrator 'was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours'). Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense - it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality. The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, 'the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck'. He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism - which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port - and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers.

Lord Jim

Conrad/Joseph

In Defence of Dogs

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In Defence Of Dogs

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

JOHN BRADSHAW

Pets & Animal Care

The Original of Laura

The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokovs final incredible unfinished novel in fragments Dr Philip Wild a man of brilliance wit fortune and tremendous bulk is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife the younger slender and rudely promiscuous Flora But in a novel a maddening masterpiece documenting her infidelities written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor she appears as My Laura Dishonoured Wild still finds pleasure in life by indulging in selfannihilation beginning with the removal of his toes Vladimir Nabokov 18991977 was born in St Petersburg He wrote his first literary works in Russian but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English most famously Lolita Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels short stories plays poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian migr writers Dmitri Nabokov was Vladimir Nabokovs son

vladimir-nabokov

Literary

Robinson Crusoe

DEFOE, DANIEL

Goodbye Look

Ross MacDonald

Genre Fiction

The Chill

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde - reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill. The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.

Galton Case

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