The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. The best known, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Baynes.

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and simple style.

A fourth edition of the dictionary which includes abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, biographical and geographical entries, and over 200 photographs.

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity.

The winner of the National Book Award, the New York Times No.1 Bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, 'The Corrections' has established itself as a truly great American novel.

Includes stories about Dublin life.

Walter Van Brunt likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts.

'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. This title includes an essay that dedicated to this 'one very simple principle'. It records responses to the author's books and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority'.

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, Republic is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. This work addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as 'guardians' of the people.

Albert Cook's verse translation of Homer's epic poem forms the core of this revised and updated second edition. The text is followed by revised background and criticism sections. The section The Odyssey in Antiquity underlines Homer's central position in Greek culture.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this ...

Modern Jungian Interpretations of Fairy Tales Volume 1.

Third installment of the Harry Potter series - a once-supporter of Voldemort escapes from Azkaban prison, and is trying to get into Hogwarts to find Harry

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

This tale of wizards and dragons features the character of Sparrowhawk. Tempted by pride to try spells beyond his powers, Sparrowhawk lets loose an evil shadow-beast. Only he can destroy it and so he begins a quest which leads him to all corners of Earthsea. This is the first book in a quartet.

This is the first novel by the author of Immortality , which won The Independent Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of The Book of Laughter and Fogetting .