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1, 2, 3 in Neverland by Maggie Fischer; Kelly Breemer (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Clever Classics Ser.
Let's count with Peter Pan in this colorful board book There's magic in Neverland, everywhere you look Watch out for the pirate with 1 shiny hook Do you believe in fairies, believe with all your heart? Can you see Tinker Bell's 2 wings sparkle in the dark? 1...2...3 Learn to count to 10 with Peter ...Show more
10 by Geoff Andrew
Category: Performing Arts | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (199 ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
12 Years a Slave (Word Cloud Classics) by Solomon Northup
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent th ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party ...Show more
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Big Brother is Watching You.’ Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Chartwell Classics HB) by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
First serialized in a French magazine from 1869 to 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized science fiction throughout the world.Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Worth Press Signature Classics) by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics
The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine life expert Professor Aronnax on an extended voyage to investigate this new threat. He discovers not a monster, but a marvelous submarine vessel piloted by a deadly captain with a se ...Show more
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention -- a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors who find themselves prisoners in Nemo's death ship on an unde ...Show more
2001: a Space Odyssey - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Peter Krämer
Category: Fiction | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001- A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and dazzling display of visual effects, the breathtaking scope of its story, which reaches across millions of y ...Show more