This collection of poems looks into and through our troubled world by means of a poetic sensibility that transforms history into metaphysics and disaster into possibility. Here is the voice of one of contemporary poetry's new masters

Powerful reading... From brilliant opening to its shocking conclusion, The Damnation Game is a compelling work

This is a collection of stories about nature and people

It tells the hillarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria

After his mother’s death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

A five-part suspense short story. In order to test the intelligence and perseverance of his two nephews, Nicholas and Alan, the old Uncle Edward gave them a key separately in care of his lawyer before his death, and told them that the one who can get seven keys within one week will receive his inheritance

This book is about going to sea on a wooden raft with five companions and a parrot.

The book is an adapted version of much-loved "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" novel by Mark Twain. The book contains follow-up exercises, especially designed for learners at beginner level of English

With their wit, honesty, abundance, imaginative breadth and prosodic grace - some of Bishop`s effects can be as subtle as Herbert`s or Hopkin`s thirty ot forty of the poems in this book seem to me as valuable as any written in English since the last war