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From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television-as this critical look brilliantly shows-has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining...

Little Women: A "coming of age" tale loosely based on the authors own life. It follows the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their father is serving as a minister to the troops during the American civil war and the girls and their mother struggle to make ends meet. The well...

Unceremoniously uprooted from her humble family home, intelligent young Fanny Price is dropped into the bustling, aristocratic household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, where she finds herself buffeted from one crisis to the next. Yet, throughout this turmoil one thing remains a constant – her...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.’ Humble and lowly,...

Three classics of English literature in one single volume. Pride and Prejudice: The novel centers on Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the five daughters of a country gentleman. Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter, is distinguished by the kindness of her attitudes; Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter,...

Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with a handsome young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, at the age of nineteen. But because he had neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne’s mentor and friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to...

Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her friend and former governess, to Mr Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she likes matchmaking. After she returns home to Hartfield with her father, Emma forges ahead with her new interest...

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Deadly visions. Debilitating blackouts. And a man and a dragon willing to sacrifice everything to keep a reluctant Fate alive…. Rysa Torres's truth surfaces the night ghouls try to take a literal bite out of her life. Turns out her troubles — a terrible boyfriend, her mom's illness, college...

C’est une vérité presque incontestable qu’un jeune homme possesseur d’une grande fortune doit avoir besoin d’une épouse. Bien que les sentiments et les goûts d’un tel homme ne soient pas connus, aussitôt qu’il vient se fixer dans une province les familles du voisinage le regardent...

The organizer of Cuban revolution and the pioneer head of Cuba till 2008, Fidel Castro, was one of the outstanding Communist leaders in the world. From 1959 to 2008, he held the dominant administration powers making Cuba a one-party political state with wide nationalization of industries and social...

A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religions An expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith and...

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«Sei cattolico, vero?» È la domanda che sempre più spesso molti si sentono rivolgere nel corso di una conversazione, e nei contesti più diversi, non appena questa si arena su un tema «sensibile» (l’aborto, l’eutanasia, l’omosessualità, l’AIDS, la contraccezione, la procreazione assistita,...