A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander...

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

"Pride and Prejudice, one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements...

Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.

"The first volume in a history of World War II as only Winston Churchill could tell it. Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, and remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction." -- Container

During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions profoundly influenced mankind and all occurred within the space of a 100 years and all led to war between the British and the French: the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and the French Revolution of 1789.

The fourth and last volume in Churchill's famous account spans the period between 1815 and 1901. Chruchill traces the footsteps of English-speaking peoples to Canada and South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and across the Atlantic to the United States. It draws to a close when the British Empire is at its peak - with a staggering one-fifth of the human race presided over by the longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Victoria.

Between 1485 and 1688 England became a protestant country under henry VIII ; his daughter Elizabeth battled for succession at home and supremacy abroad, and the discovery of the 'new world' enabled a vast continent across the Atlantic to be explored.