Mary Sebag-Montefiore Bücher

This complete set of Jane Austen’s novels makes a beautiful decoration for any home library. Jane Austen's stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her work compelling, heartwarming, and essential. Adapted time and again for screen and stage, these enduring classics remain as enjoyable as ever. This elegant, colorful collection includes Austen's acclaimed novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Readers will be enchanted by these stories and by the decorative books in this set, which include specially designed spines, custom endpapers, and images painted on the page edges that form a scene across the set. These books aren’t just for your bookshelf. They’re a beautiful way to add color and style to a room. Just like they do with Jane Austen's memorable characters, readers and interior design aficionados will fall in love with these beautiful novels. This set includes the following titles: Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Emma Mansfield Park Persuasion Northanger Abbey

Buchrücken-Text: Wie sollen die Cuthberts nur mit der springlebendigen Anne zurechtkommen, die für allerhand Trubel und aufregung in ihrem bisher so beschaulichen Leben sorgt? Die liebeswerte Geschichte einer 13jährigen Waisen, die von einem älteren Paar adoptiert wird und Kindheit und Jugend auf der Farm Green Gables verbringt.

Five well-known fairy tales retold for young children and presented in a boxed 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Elves and the Shoemaker', 'Puss in Boots', 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and 'Cinderella'. Each book is designed and illustrated in a traditional style, bound as a cloth-covered hardback and finished with a ribbon page marker.

Leo Tolstoy's epic Russian classic, retold in just 64 pages. First published in 1869, this novel is one of the most famous books in the world, and this simple but atmospheric retelling now makes it accessible for young readers. Set in Russia following the French invasion of Russia in 1812, as the Tsarist regime is succeeded by the Napoleonic era. A concise introduction to what is widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literature ever written. The Usborne Reading Programme is a collection of over 300 reading books, graded in seven levels. Developed with reading experts. Series Three books are for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. They use advanced sentence structure and vocabulary and have more complex plots with subplots than the level below.

»Ich hielt über mich selbst Gericht … und ich fällte zum Schluß das Urteil, daß nie eine größere Närrin als Jane Eyre irdische Luft geatmet, nie eine verrücktere Träumerin bis zum Überdruß in süßen Lügen geschwelgt und Gift wie Nektar geschluckt habe.« Jane ist eigensinnig und direkt zu sich selbst, aber auch zu anderen. So sucht sie in einer patriarchalischen Gesellschaft ihren Platz. Der faszinierende Mr. Rochester bringt ihre Welt ins Wanken… Mit ihrer fiktiven Autobiographie eroberte Charlotte Brontë die Herzen von Millionen Lesern und einen bleibenden Platz in 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.

A celebration of the idea that with courage and heart, anyone can become a hero. It is the unlikely heroes in stories that are sometimes the most inspiring of all. Stories about someone small, and seemingly unimportant or overlooked, who ends up being the one to stand tall. This collection of seven fairy tales, once much loved, now forgotten, breathes new life into old tales: a farm girl outwits an ogre, an old man wins fame for his kindness, while a girl discovers that what makes her different is also what makes her so special. This magical collection will bring inspiration to a new generation of readers and act as a reminder that anyone, no matter how small, can make a difference.

A new title in Young Reading Series Three, which is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. The classic story of misadventure by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra retold for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. Don Quixote thinks he's a knight, just like in the days of old - he even has a squire. Of course, these days, there are no dragons to fight, but a thing like that doesn't stop him, as he drags his squire on one madcap adventure after another… Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.

When Heidi's Aunt Dete gets a new job in Frankfurt she takes Heidi up the mountains and leaves her with her grandfather who is not at all thrilled about having Heidi live with him. Just as Heidi and her Grandfather have become happy living together, Aunt Dete returns, wanting to take Heidi back to Frankfurt to be company for a rich little girl who is sick.

Reviving unjustly neglected stories, Usborne's collections of 'Forgotten Fairy Tales' bring together empowering fairy tales to inspire a new generation of readers. Forgotten Fairy Tales of Kindness and Courage follows 'Tales of Brave and Billiant Girls Around the World' and 'Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls'.

A marvellous addition to the highest level of the best-selling Reading Programme. Follow Alice and the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and join in with their madcap adventures. Part of the Usborne Young Reading series, this retelling of Lewis Carroll's enduring and popular nonsensical tale is ideal for newly independent readers.