After climbing through a mirror, Alice enters a world similar to a chess board, where she experiences many curious adventures with its fantastic inhabitants.

“Everybody said he looked like a haunted man. The extent of my present claim for everybody is, that they were so far right. He did. Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black-attired figure, indefinably grim, although well-knit and wellproportioned; his grizzled hair hanging, like tangled sea-weed, about his face, as if he had been, through his whole life, a lonely mark for the chafing and beating of the great deep of humanity, but might have said he looked like a haunted man?” -- Excerpt Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories. While The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man were written for the Christmas market, they tell us much about the age Dickens lived in.

Discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains during an archaeological dig, volunteer Alice finds herself targeted by a ruthlessly ambitious woman and a dangerously powerful man, while eight hundred years in the past, Alais, the daughter of a crusader, is charged with safeguarding the location of the Holy Grail. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Here are a handful of Wilde's shorter works tht demonstrate his range, versatility, and skill as a storyteller. From the social parody of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to such well known fairy tales as The Happy Prince, these selections are sure to delight old and new fans alike.

While visiting Eleanor and her brother Henry at their family estate, Catherine learns hard lessons about values when Henry's father encourages their romance only because he believes Catherine is wealthy.

The bestselling new life of this legendary French queen, now in trade paperback.

While visiting Eleanor and her brother Henry at their family estate, Catherine learns hard lessons about values when Henry's father encourages their romance only because he believes Catherine is wealthy.