Classic For Adults

In Wild Things, Vanity Fair contributing editor Bruce Handy revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most insightful, creative, and witty authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces.

Alice, now slightly older, walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House and immediately becomes involved in a strange game of chess. Soon, she is exploring the rest of the house, meeting a sequence of characters now familiar to most: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and the Walrus, to name a few. The popular and linguistically playful poem "Jabberwocky" is also featured in Through the Looking Glass.

Cuando en lugar del chico huérfano que pretendían adoptar, Ana Shirley, una niña pelirroja de once años, aparece en las vidas de Marilla y Matthew Cuthbert, dos hermanos solteros que viven en su casa familiar de Tejas Verdes, en el pequeño pueblo de Avonlea, sus vidas y las de cuantos la rodean cambiarán para siempre. Con su vivacidad, risas y lágrimas, y sobre todo su alegría e imaginación, Ana conseguirá formar parte, por primera vez en su vida, de una familia, y tener un lugar al que podrá llamar hogar para siempre.

Mysteries don't come any better than the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Hound of the Baskervilles is perhaps their most famous adventure. Now, Jim Weiss transports us to their world of suspense, shocking surprises, friendship, intellect, and courage. In this iconic story, Holmes and Watson must unravel more than one mystery before time runs out as they confront a cunning foe who will stop at nothing to accomplish a dreadful goal. But is that foe human or the result of a centuries-old curse?

Return with Portia and her younger brother, Foster, as they rediscover an abandoned summer resort, consisting of deserted crumbling Victorian summer homes surrounding a vanished lake, which is now a swamp.

En La Isla del Tesoro, considerada la mejor y más influyente de todas las historias de Piratas, Robert Louis Stevenson cuenta el increíble viaje del joven Jim Hawkins a través del mar en busca de un tesoro a bordo del buque "La Española".

Born as an undersized runt puppy, Arara has been constantly bullied by the bigger pups in her pack. As far as she is concerned, her life is horrible and it's not going to change anytime soon. However, during a hunt, Arara discovers that she can move things with her mind. Armed with this new power, Arara convinces another bullied puppy to help her take down Kerka - the biggest, baddest pup in town. But when things go wrong and a life is put in danger, Arara must face her fears before it is too late.

Here are the stories of 10 key Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, King Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Written in classic Alcott style, we see how the boys struggle to overcome their many flaws, in the end learning life's lessons the hard way. Just as the March girls did, each boy must learn to deal with death, love, heartbreak, and the consequences of their actions. Audiences will feel pain and joy alongside each young man as he completes his life journey and fulfills his dreams in this classic conclusion to one of America's most beloved series.

When fragile 16-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. And she's alive, though currently trapped in the 12th century, during the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Hope has 77 hours to rescue her mother and get back to their own time.

They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, 17-year-old Lil and her twin sister, Kizzy, are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn't understand.

A cosmic collection of bone-chilling and terrifying short horror stories by Laurie Blake.

The Unofficial F-R-I-E-N-D-S Trivia Book: The One with All the Quotes includes over 200 quotes all neatly sectioned to make it easier to understand who the quotes are from; a section for nothing but the most famous one-liners the show is known for; a section of quotes only between the main six characters: Monica, Ross, Phoebe, Chandler, Rachel, and Joey; and more.

Living off crumbs in a dreary attic, Sara Crewe comforts herself with wondrous stories of adventure and fortune, and in the end the stories become true.

Perhaps the greatest story of piracy and the search for a fabulous buried treasure ever penned. Meet this cast of extraordinary characters brought vividly to life by the voice and interpretive skill of Benjamin Luxon: once one of Britain's leading international singers, now turning his considerable talents to the spoken word.

Charly, Karl Mays Alter Ego, kommt als Landvermesser in den Wilden Westen Amerikas, gerät mit einer Bande Strolche aneinander, lernt die Westmänner Sam Hawkens und das lustige 'Kleeblatt' kennen und schließt nach vielen lebensgefährlichen Abenteuern Blutsbrüderschaft mit Winnetou...

is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why. Even Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?

Released in our new Young Adult Classics format, Henry James's classic ghost story is a masterpiece of the supernatural. The tale is taken from the diary of a governess, who describes her mounting sense of paranoia at the relationship between her two wards and the ghostly figures that haunt the estate.

John and Lorraine happen to be passing by the Pigman’s abandoned house when they receive the shock of their lives: someone or something is watching them from the upstairs window. Convinced this is a sign from beyond the grave, John and Lorraine decide they have been given a chance to make up for what happened to the Pigman. Can they make things right once and for all?

"Momo" er Michael Endes udødelige fortælling om pigen, der forstår, hvad der betyder noget. For Momo er det at have tid til at lege, lytte, fortælle og bare være til, det vigtigste i verden, og derfor må hun tage kampen op, da folk omkring hende får så travlt med at effektivisere, at de helt glemmer at leve livet.