Take a walk around the Secret Garden. Experience boarding school with A Little Princess. See life through a horse's eyes with Black Beauty. Be enchanted by charming & hot-headed Anne of Green Gables. Carefully retold in clear contemporary language & presented with delightful illustrations these favourite classic stories will capture the heart & imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter simpler form children will find these books highly engaging & the colour illustrations help with both comprehension & interest level. ...

Tom Sawyer a shrewd & adventurous boy is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant & parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures accidentally witnessing a murder establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused as well as being hunted by Injun Joe the true murderer eventually escaping & finding the treasure that Joe had buried. Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck who runs away from a drunken & brutal father & meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft participating in the lives of the characters they meet witnessing corruption moral decay & intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background & character these two stories the best of Twain indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century & the institution of slavery. ...

Plays Three: A Separate Peace"" Teeth"" Another Moon Called Earth"" Neutral Ground"" Professional Foul"" Squaring the Circle" Introduced by the author this third collection of plays written by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays written between 1965 & 1984. They show that Stoppards writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work as the masterly & timely " Professional Foul "demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the pieces came to be written & the circumstances of their original production." ...

Dalliance"" Undiscovered Country"" Rough Crossing"" On the Razzle"" The Seagull" This fourth volume of Tom Stoppards work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations & adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (" Dalliance" & " Undiscovered Country") Ferenc Molnar (" Rough Crossing " a classic farce set aboard an ocean liner) Johann Nestroy (" On the Razzle " a mad chase through Vienna) & Anton Chekhov (" The Seagull " the classic Russian country tale). According to " The Times" of London " Adaptation in Stoppards terms means finding a sympathetic text & using it as a springboard for invention that leaves the original far behind." In adapting these plays--some classics some nearly forgotten--for the modern stage Tom Stoppard has added his own unique elements of dazzling wit & verbal brilliance hilarious parody & cutting satire to create works that stand as exceptional works of theater that do not belong to any one age." ...

Plays Five: Arcadia"" The Real Thing"" Night & Day; "" Indian Ink; "" Hapgood " This fifth collection of Tom Stoppards plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language. " Arcadia "received the Evening Standard the Oliver & the Critics Awards & " The Real Thing "won a Tony Award." ...

The Trueheart house is busy & bustling-because today is a special day. Toms older brothers are getting married & preparing to live happily ever after. But then an unexpected wedding guest arrives. Someone who has decided that there will be no more Happy Endings. Toms brothers & their brides are whisked off to the Land of Dark Stories as prisoners of their old enemy Brother Ormestone. & Tom himself is put under a terrible enchantment... It is up to Tom to try to save the others & to bring back Happy Endings. But how can he defeat the storybook monsters now that he is only the size of a thumb? ...

Tom Waits may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth. He is also a shape-shifter who over a span of almost four decades has restlessly transformed his song-writing & persona not to suit the times but his own whims. Along with Bob Dylan he stands as one of American musics last great mysteries. Hundreds of journalists have sought to crack the Waits code but few have come close to piercing the myths that shroud him. Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty of his most intriguing interviews the majority of which have never been collected in book form before. In each Waits shares something truly unique delivering prose as crafted poetic potent & haunting as his best lyrics. Taken together they present a de facto autobiography of a notoriously guarded artist. ...

Tom Weir as a popular television personality climaxed a long life as explorer naturalist & photographer. His dedication took him from impoverished Glasgow to the ends of the earth & this selection some never before published touches on all his many enthusiasms a book to appeal to all who hold dear the memory of a notable Scotsman. Wiith the full cooperation of Tom's widow Rhona Weir Hamish Brown has gathered a selection of his writings & presents them chronologically with an illuminating foreword. Together they form a sort of autobiography the life of a man writing as he goes. This book will be one of the most eagerly anticipated titles to be published in Scotland in 2013. ...

When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven.. . Twelve.. . Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs & opens the back door. There awaiting him is a beautiful garden. A garden that shouldn't exist. & there are children in the garden too
- are they ghosts? Or is it Tom who is really the ghost.. .
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This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Philippa Pearce's enchanting children's tale starring Una Stubbs & Crawford Logan. These audio editions especially dramatised for BBC Radio are of timeless stories that have enchanted generations of readers both young & old. The wonder & excitement of these much-loved tales live on in these acclaimed full-cast dramatisations complete with evocative music & sound effects. When his brother catches measles Tom is sent away for the summer to stay with his uncle & aunt
- & is thoroughly fed up about it. What a boring summer it's going to be. But then lying in bed one night he hears the old grandfather clock in the hall strike the very strange hour of thirteen o'clock. What can it mean? As Tom creeps downstairs & opens the door he finds out...a magical garden a new playmate & the adventure of a lifetime.
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