Little Women Alcott Louisa May Random House, Inc.

Quatre grands classiques de la littérature enfantine, Alice au pays des Merveilles, Le Magicien d'Oz, Peter Pan, et Les Quatre Filles du Docteur March, enfin réunis en un volume et agrémentés de 96 superbes illustrations d'époque tout en couleur • Quatre classiques de l'enfance réunis en un volume illustré en couleurs La jeune Alice s’ennuie à ne rien faire, auprès d’une sœur qui lit des livres sans images. Quand surgit un lapin vêtu d’une redingote et de gants blancs, la curiosité la pousse à le suivre au fond de son terrier. Après une chute interminable, une clé d’or lui donne accès à un corridor – trop étroit, hélas, pour continuer sa filature. Elle se hasarde alors à goûter au flacon qui porte l’étiquette « BOIS-MOI ». Un poison ?...C’est pour l’une des filles du doyen de Christ Church que Lewis Carroll imagina, lors d’une promenade en barque, l’étrange aventure d’Alice au pays des merveilles (1862)

For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women at the top • 'Who better qualified to delve into this topic?' Business Life • Women make up less than 10 per cent of national leaders. Behind this statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Drawing on current research and in conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women about their lived experience, Gillard and Okonjo-Iweala explore gender bias and ask how we get more women into leadership roles • Speaking honestly and freely, women leaders such as Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachelet and Theresa May talk about their ideas receiving less acknowledgement than their male colleagues' ideas, what it's like to be body-shamed in the media, and the things they wish they had done differently

In sport, money is everything • Behind every victory lap, every goal celebration, every triumph against the odds and every dropped relay baton is a story of money • Why would someone pull the plug on a Premier League match? • What prompts an athlete to search for sponsorship on eBay? • How can the decision of a drinks brand CEO make or break an entire sport? • Why would a sprinter think they can’t afford not to dope? • Sport Inc. reveals the behind-the-scenes finances that drive sport - who gets rich and who gets left on the bench • Through investigations into a wide range of sports, including how football agents really work, the betting industry and corruption, esports, the NFL’s efforts to take over the world and the real cost of hosting events like the World Cup and the Olympics, the financial realities of our obsession with sport are exposed

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others • George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep - who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority, is one of the most famous warnings ever written • Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot due to its daringly open criticism of Stalin, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point

Сегодня Рождество, и Люси с Томом готовятся к нему! • Нужно сделать открытки, украсить елку и спрятать подарки • И как ты можешь заснуть, когда, возможно, приближается Дед Мороз? • Сегодня Рождество, и Люси с Томом готовятся к нему! • Нужно сделать открытки, украсить елку и спрятать подарки • И как ты можешь заснуть, когда, возможно, приближается Дед Мороз? • Книга на английском языке • It’s Christmas, and Lucy and Tom are getting ready! • There are cards to make, a tree to decorate and presents to hide • And how can you get to sleep when Father Christmas may be coming? • This classic picture book from the creator of Dogger is the perfect book for Christmas excitement

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: they are first exposed to the magical worlds of jazz, women, and literature by their eccentric fellow travelers, and together they spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. By turns poignant and electrifying, The Cat’s Table is a spellbinding story about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood, and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage

Лауреат Нобелевской Премии по литературе • Восьмая книга Элис Манро "Открытые секреты" состоит из восьми ярких и поэтичных историй, каждая из которых насыщенна, как роман. Начиная с 1850-х годов, через две мировые войны и по настоящее время, от Канады до Брисбена, Балкан и Соммы, эти потрясающие истории раскрывают секреты нетрадиционных женщин, которые отказываются быть сдержанными • Книга на английском языке • Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature • 'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Independent • Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel. Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion

Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con men a bad name. Looking like an animated blob of mustard in his bright yellow raincoat, he invests time, passion and energy (but seldom actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre money-making schemes. Shares in an accident syndicate? Easily arranged. Finance for a dog college? It's yours.And if you throw in some cats, flying unexpectedly from windows, and a young man trying ever-more-desperately to impress the family of his latest love, you get a medley of Wodehouse delights in which lunacy and comic exuberance reign supreme

Charlotte is looking after her best friend's daughter the day she disappears. She thought the little girl was playing with her own children. She swears she only took her eyes off them for a second • Now, Charlotte must do the unthinkable: tell her best friend Harriet that her only child is missing. The child she was meant to be watching • Devastated, Harriet can no longer bear to see Charlotte. No one could expect her to trust her friend again.Only now she needs to. Because two weeks later Harriet and Charlotte are both being questioned separately by the police. And secrets are about to surface

Moscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words life has become better, life has become merrier. Moscow Chestnova bears her captial's name, and seeks the happiness it promises. She flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world around her. In an age of spin and soundbites, this anarchic satire retains its bite