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Peter Harness

    Huckleberry Finn
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion (Target Collection)
    Grimms' fairy tales
    Songs of Innocence & Experience
    The Picture of Dorian Gray.
    • "We will die in the fire instead of living in chains." For years, 20 million shape-changing Zygons have lived among us in secret. They wear human form, hiding in plain sight. Now a fanatical Zygon splinter group seek to expose their own kind and provoke a conflict that will force both sides to the brink of Armageddon to ensure their own survival. It took three Doctors to broker a fragile peace between Zygons and Humans. Now the 12th must face the fallout alone. With his allies compromised and his companion believed dead, can he stop the world from plunging into war?

      Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion (Target Collection)2023
      3.9
    • Originally published in 1789 and 1794, this is a collection of some of Blake's best-loved poems. Intended for children, the poems were a popular success with adults of the time too.

      Songs of Innocence & Experience2019
      4.1
    • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

      • 270 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer2017
      3.7
    • HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' Collected by the German Grimm brothers, these folk tales have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since they were first published in 1812. The best-known stories such as The Golden Goose, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, and Snow-White and Rose-Red remain as popular today as when first told, although there is an underlying darkness and violence to the original stories that has softened over time.

      Grimms' fairy tales2016
      4.1
    • Madame Bovary

      • 101 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      At convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north; and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Emma Bovary's quest for escape from the emptiness of her bourgeois existence leads to infidelity and financial extravagance, and Gustave Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of her moral degeneration is universally regarded as a landmark of nineteenth-century fiction. Flaubert was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality but narrowly escaped conviction. Madame Bovary remains a touchstone for literary discussions of provincial life and adultery as well as a summit of prose art, a pioneering work of realism that forever changed the way novels are written. This complete and unabridged edition features the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.

      Madame Bovary2014
      3.7
    • Huckleberry Finn

      • 56 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim . . .

      Huckleberry Finn2004
      3.7
    • 'The Picture of Dorian Grey' ist ein perfektes Buch. Bis ins letzte ausgeklügelt ist die Balance zwischen Realität und Fiktion, messerscharf treffen die Paradoxien aufeinander, anregend sind nach wie vor die Thesen zu Kunst und Leben, überzeugend wirkt die Schilderung der Dekadenz, des Dandyismus und der Nachtseiten der Großstadt London, und das Verbrechen nimmt mit atemberaubender Subtilität seinen Lauf. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

      The Picture of Dorian Gray.2003
      4.2