It so happens that the right teacher can take the form of a book. Grays Anatomy is one of those few titles that practically everybody has heard of and with good reason--it is a scientific and artistic triumph. Not just a dry index of parts and names Grays lets the nat... Lees meer.

A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of 60 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. With the help of his loyal frien... Lees meer.

Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helen Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses giants and dwarves and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology.... Lees meer.

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story having perfected the tale of psychological horror and having revolutionised modern poetics. the entirety of Poes body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales satires fables fantasies science... Lees meer.

Grimms Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature. Little Red Riding Hood Snow-White and... Lees meer.

The Cthulhu Mythos was H. P. Lovecrafts greatest contribution to supernatural literature. a series of stories that evoked cosmic awe and terror through their accounts of incomprehensibly alien monsters and their horrifying incursions into our world. the Complete Cthulh... Lees meer.

Lewis Carrolls novels Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass first published in 1865 and 1871 respectively have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. their magical worlds amusing characters clever dialogue and playfully... Lees meer.

A leather bound edition from the popular series. It features a satin-ribbon bookmark decorative stained edging and marbled endpapers.Aesop s Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables beautifully illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham Wa... Lees meer.

Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Her... Lees meer.

H. P. Lovecraft fused supernatural horror with visionary science fiction this volume collects together all of these writings. This is an exquisitely designed edition that features a silk-ribbon bookmark distinctive gilt edging marbled endpapers. This is the perfect... Lees meer.

War looms in Leo Tolstoy s War and Peace and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy s epic novel focuses the chaos of battle the horror of death and bloodshed and the expression... Lees meer.

When Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone his future as the King of England is foretold. This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur s formation of the Knights of the Round Table his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibu... Lees meer.

This novel tells the classic tale of the mischievous Master of Sherwood Forest who lives the outlaw life with Little John Friar Tuck Will Scarlet and his band of Merry Men bedevilling the implacable Sheriff of Nottingham during the reign of Richard the Lionhearted.... Lees meer.

First published in 1878 Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love the couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time a... Lees meer.

This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets including William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. It includes some of the greatest poems in the Engl... Lees meer.