the stories in this rewarding and irreverent collection prove that Stuart McLean is indeed a national treasure
Her informative introduction highlights Chaucer’s artistic originality in his memorable portrayals of surprisingly modern women and men from across the spectrum of medieval society
and its representation of commonplace things and events
The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie
allowing the tea leaves to open widely inside the pot and release their full flavour
The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky Pika & Bear the stories in this rewardingReturning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two womenthe notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaiaboth involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkins honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna