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Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green KnoweTolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic.

Vanity Fair, Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Becky's fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with Amelia's dissolute husband; when he is killed at Waterloo, Amelia and her child are left penniless, while Becky and her husband Rawdon Crawley rise in the world, managing to lead a high life in London solely on the basis of their shrewdness. (The chapter entitled "How to Live on Nothing" is a classic.) Thackeray's subtitle, "A Novel Without a Hero," is understating the case; his view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak and deliberately antiheroic. Critics of the time misunderstood the book, decrying it as (among other things) vicious, vile, and odious. But VANITY FAIR has endured as one of the great comic novels of all time, and a landmark in the history of realism in fiction.

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Im Jahr 1625 zieht der junge d’Artagnan nach Paris, um sich der Garde der berühmten Musketiere anzuschließen. Schnell gewinnt er die Freundschaft der drei unzertrennlichen Musketiere Athos, Porthos und Aramis. Getreu ihrem Motto »Einer für alle, alle für einen« verteidigen sie ihre Königin gegen die Intrigen Kardinal Richelieus und der verruchten Lady Winter. Dumas' historischer Roman zählt zu den populärsten und spannendsten der Weltliteratur. Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.

»Das Leben und die seltsamen Abenteuer des Robinson Crusoe, eines Seemanns aus York. Welcher achtundzwanzig Jahre ganz allein auf einer unbewohnten Insel vor der amerikanischen Küste, nahe der Mündung des großen Orinoco lebte, wohin er nach einem Schiffbruch, bei dem die ganze Besatzung außer ihm selbst ums Leben kam, verschlagen wurde. Nebst dem Bericht wie er auf wundersame Weise durch Piraten gerettet wurde. Geschrieben von ihm selbst.« So lautet der volle Titel des Buches, dessen wichtigste Begebenheiten hier in Auswahl dargeboten werden. Gekürzte Ausgabe

Nach dem Drehbuch von Hart, James V. Illustr. Thomas, Roy ; Mignola, Mike ; Nyberg, John. Farb. illustr. n. pag.

"If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what to you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you think? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them."--Back cover

When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.