Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year she waited for a ship to rescue her. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. Hers is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery
The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a family which 'tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how." -- Christina Patterson, Observer
After four years' separation, Alison had been forced to return to her husband Dirk du Bois; blackmailed by his threat to take their little son away from her if she didn't agree. But it was clear that Dirk hated her now, and was as indifferent to her as he had been when they were first married - so why did he insist that she stayed with him? For Yvette Paulson, who had broken up the marriage, wa…
After only a few days of marriage, Tanya had been separated from her husband Adrian and trapped ini her own country behind the Iron Curtain. Now, years later, she had managed to escape and had sought Adrian out at last. But, thinking his marriage was over, Adrian was planning to marry another girl - and heartlessy made it clear to Tanya that he no longer wanted her. But that was not the end of …
Impulsive, passionate, live-wire Zoe was the exact opposite of her more realistic boy-friend, Ben. But together they made a perfect team - both in and out of bed. They had plans to tkae them down the road to success and nothing was going to get in their way. But then the unforseen happened. Would their future be FOR BETTER ... OR... FOR WORSE?
The eleven essays specially written for this book are presented as a contribution to the renewed evaluation of Hardy's poetry, as part of areappraisal which must produce a more satisfying view of his complex, large, experimental, odd, rich, sometimes frustrating, compelling body of poems than it has often in the past managed to call forth from his crtics.
She was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask - and answer-life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the pup…
"Little Dorrit" stands in Dickens's life chiefly as a signal of how far he went down the road of realism, of sadness and of what is called modernity