Selected Poems: Milton

John Milton; John Leonard (Introduction by); Christopher Ricks (Editor)

An authoritative new edition of Milton's essential verse   John Milton, who abandoned early plans of becoming a clergyman to become a poet, was a master of almost every type of verse-from the classical to the religious, from the lyric to the epic. His writing reflected his radical views and his profou...

LGB The Princess and the Pea (Little Golden Book)

Golden Books Staff; Jana Christy (Illustrator); Hans Christian Anderson

The famous fairy tale The Princess and the Pea is retold in this all-new Little Golden Book--destined to be an instant classic...

The Good Liar

Nicholas Searle

This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman. He will swiftly move in with her and together they will live the seemingly calm life of a retired co...

A Ship of the Line

C. S. Forester

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundr...