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Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. No one knows of Robert Ford, at least not yet. But the ambitious 19-year-o...
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
"Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in Sade's stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. In this text Sade asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers"--Provide...
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder.
The incredible flash-biography collection covers the entire spectrum of achievement. It's like being invited to a party with 117 of the most intelligent, most athletic, most expressive, and most attractive people who have ever lived. Whether interested in science, politics, sport...
A sprightly supernatural comedy with winning performances, David Lean's delightful film version of Noel Coward's theater sensation stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium to his house, accidentally summoning the spirit of his dead first wife--a severe incon...
London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upsid...
""It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength." -Subhas Chandra Bose. Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station woun...
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
David Lean brings to vivid, emotional life Coward's epic chronicle of a working-class family over the course of two decades in a London suburb.
John Langer, a crusty old civil engineer, has an arsenal full of memories. Danny Himes is a gifted, spirited athlete with something to prove. Old man Langer and Danny seem an unlikely pair. Their relationship turns from student/mentor to comrades on a quest to free themselves fro...
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Daniel Boone leads a company of settlers from Virginia in the wilderness to start a new colony where they carve a palisaded settlement from the wilderness only to learn that the coward who had been sent back has stolen the title to their land. When Daniel Boone sets out to plea h...
Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emperor's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down...