This special CD pack contains two of Roald Dahls most famous stories full dramatised with music & sound effects. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory tells the wonderful tale of Charlie Bucket. Charlie can not believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket & wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made at the wonderful chocolate factory of Willie Wonka along with the infamous characters of the Oompa-Loompas Veronica Salt Augustus Gloop & many more. In Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator Charlie has now won the chocolate factory & is now on his way to take possession of it. With his parents & grandparents
- & Mr Wonka
- hes travelling by a strange new method of transport: a Great Glass Elevator! But suddenly thingsstart to go wrong. The elevator zooms higher & higher into the sky until it goes into orbit around the Earth an hilarious & exciting adventure ensues in which Charlie & his companions defend themselves against a mob of vicious space monsters.

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A Wonderful story about a hedgehog named Horatio who has moved into a new house in a pile of leaves that the wind has blown against a tree. Now all he needs is to furnish his home with items to make a cosy little dwelling. He meets up with various animals in the neighbourhood on his path who have items they no longer need & rather than throwing these away Horatio offers to take them off their paws by way of recycling for his new home resulting in a lovely warm & comfortable house. ...

If you love a good story then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure & return to again & again. Join Huckleberry Finn & runaway slave Jim as they escape from their tormentors & head down the Mississippi River. They have many adventures on the voyage & trouble is always close at h&. Throughout everything their friendship remains strong but will this be enough to give Jim his freedom once & for all? ...

Mark Twain's witty satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority the Penguin Classics" edition of " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice & experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken abusive ' Pap' & the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families & the trickery of the unscrupulous ' Duke' & ' Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits however are more serious undercurrents
- of slavery adult control & above all of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness & the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep & enduring friendship with Jim. Based on the first edition of 1884 " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Includes:: a chronology & list of further reading by Richard Maxwell. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; ' Mark Twain' a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep became the pseudonym by which he was best known. After the Civil War Twain turned to journalism publishing his first short story in 1865. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner Twain led a colourful life of travelling bankruptcy & great literary success. If you enjoyed " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" you may like Mark Twain's " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" also available in " Penguin Classics". " All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... There has been nothing as good since." (Ernest Hemingway). " Huckleberry Finn like other great works of imagination can give to every reader whatever he is capable of taking from it." (T.S. Eliot)."


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Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again raising Cain. He wont rest until he has Hucks money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death & sets out in search of adventure & freedom. Teaming up with Jim an escaped slave with a price on his head the two fugitives go on the run travelling down the wide Mississippi River. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim or turn his friend over to a terrible fate? ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ' We said there warn't no home like a raft after all. Other places do seem so cramped up & smothery but a raft don't. You feel mighty free & easy & comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death & so begins his journey through the Deep South seeking independence & freedom. On his travels Huck meets an escaped slave Jim who is a wanted man & together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless & universal l issues of prejudice bravery & hope the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was & still is considered the great American novel. ...

Huck is a young naive white boy fleeing from his drunken dangerous Pa & Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment & a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s. ...

' It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there all speckled with stars & we used to lay on our backs & look up at them' Huck Finn spits swears smokes a pipe & never goes to school. With his too-big clothes & battered straw hat Huck is in need of 'civilising' & the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in h&. & wouldn't you know Huck's no-good Pap is also after him & he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won't stand too much of this & after a daring escape he takes off down the Mississppi on a raft with an runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river
- will they survive & win their freedom? BACKSTORY: Discover how to write secret messages in code & learn about the extraordinary Mark Twain.
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Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns & kidnaps him he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn from floods & gunfights to armed bandits & the long arm of the law. Through it all the friends stick together
- but can Huck & Tom free Jim from slavery once & for all? With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twelve wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2008.
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Leftenant Benjamin Rundel is faced with the battle for St Elmo Castle which is thought to be impregnable the surrender of Capua a trying leftenants exam for his friend Tom Murphy & the surrender of all of Roma to Captain Troubridge for a turn of the cards. Then its off to the Quiberon Bay disaster & success at Killala Bay against the French. The Admiralty sends he & his friend Tom Murphy to Panama to capture a pack train loaded with gold headed for Spain. After much confusion they get the gold but end up with the mother ship aground with the gold aboard & a boatload of starving cannibals on shore to harry them. Along the way he is instructed to capture the wife & sister of a noble of the Codrington family & has to decide how to cut out two older females from a Spanish captains protection. Then he returns to Barbados to quench the fires of a fire ship & heads out to find the perpetrator only to wind up in a plot by an island plantation owner to ruin all of the local planters so he can purchase their lands cheaply. Finally as he heads for safety his ship is captured by the French. But he plays turnabout & takes a much larger French ship on his way to port. There is never a dull moment in the life of this most able young leftenant. ...