The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchiseme...(展开全部)

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrastin...(展开全部)

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry has beautifully and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the world's most impressive monuments. Published for the first time in paperback ,over one hundred of his images of the site are collected in this stunning book, which documents a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-r...(展开全部)

Every night, Herb's mother reads him a bedtime story. Sometimes it's about a big bad wolf who terrifies little girls and their grandmothers, with his chilling growl and big yellow teeth. The story gets very nasty in the middle and everybody nearly comes to a sticky end. But, by the last page, it all turns out well and happy-ever-afterly. But what will happen to Herb when the wo...(展开全部)

This 20th-anniversary treasury features a special introduction and five full-length picture books - "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed", "Five Little Monkeys Bake a Cake", "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree", "Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do", and "Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car" - as well as a lesson on how to draw your own fabulous monkeys. Sheets of colourful...(展开全部)

This 9x9 hardcover treasury includes the complete art and text from four classics: Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, and Days with Frog and Toad. Share the adventures of best friends Frog and Toad as they fly a kite, resist the temptation of cookies, and search for a lost button. No matter what kind of situation they find themselves in, ...(展开全部)

This treasury includes the complete art and text from four classics. Share the adventures of best friends Frog and Toad as they fly a kite, resist the temptation of cookies, and search for a lost button. No matter what kind of situation they find themselves in, one thing is certain: Frog and Toad will always be together. This reading collection is a Level Two I Can Read, geared...(展开全部)

This 20th-anniversary treasury features a special introduction and five full-length picture books - "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed", "Five Little Monkeys Bake a Cake", "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree", "Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do", and "Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car" - as well as a lesson on how to draw your own fabulous monkeys. Sheets of colourful...(展开全部)

Tracing the temples of ancient Egypt from their origins through their decline and to their modern-day study, this book is both an authoritative reference and an entertaining collection of "factfiles, " photographs, plans, and specially commissioned perspective views. 500 illustrations, 150 in color.