For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place – covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape through volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux.
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A Book Lover’s Guide to the Zodiac marries astrology and literature by connecting both writers and fictional characters to the twelve different star signs and their particular traits.
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A story where there is a need for change. The message it gives is that life is not as cruel as we think, but we must choose to see the beautiful things around us.
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Marley, his former business partner. Marley’s selfishness condemned him to misery in the afterlife, and he warns that Scrooge faces a similar fate.
First published on 19 December 1843, A Christmas Carol became an instant classic. Scrooge’s transformation from grumpy miser to charitable figure carries a heart-warming message for the Christmas season – a time of peace and goodwill to all men.
Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
The plot of A Farewell to Arms follows the love affair of Frederic, an injured soldier, and Catherine, his nurse during World War I in Italy. Frederic Henry falls in love with Catherine Barkley as she tends to his wounds. Frederic is called back to the front where a botched retreat causes Frederic to have to desert.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, is a novel about Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who is condemned by Communists to spend the rest of his life confined in the Metropol, the capital’s most glamorous hotel.