Long ago there was a Scandinavian warrior who fought three evils so powerful they could destroy whole kingdoms. Standing head and shoulders above his comrades, Beowulf single-handedly saves the land of the Danes from a merciless ogre named Grendel and then from his sea-hag mother. But it is his third terrible battle, with the death-dragon of the deep, in which he truly meets his match

Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell. This collection contains stories by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Angela Noel, Dorothy L.Sayers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Margery Allingham, and Patricia Highsmith

Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity

Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama's struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

This is a pre-trip guide for travellers planning their first trip to Latin America. The book gives individual profiles of all 21 Latin American countries, with a rundown of highlights and possible itineraries

The material in this little volume, dealing with Mr. Hoover's rôle at the Paris Peace Conference, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Hoover's original intention had been not to publish it during his lifetime, but the deepening crisis caused him to change his mind last year. Some will doubt whether the decision was opportune, and historians may question whether Mr. Hoover has contributed much that is original to the history of the peace conference or whether his judgments, expressed then in the various letters and memoranda reproduced here, have been justified by the lapse of time

Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer’s art