Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)

Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...

Jim Henson - The Biography

Brian Jay Jones

For the first time ever - a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic...

Endgame (Agent 21 #6)

Chris Ryan

'Don't come after us...remember the first thing I ever taught you - that your first duty is to stay alive.' For some time now, Zak Darke has been operating solo, in total secrecy, for a shadowy government organisation. When his handlers are abducted by somebody with a serious personal vendetta against h...