This collection contains the following works:Euripides: MedeaSophocles: AntigoneAeschylus: AgamemnonAeschylus: EumenidesAeschylus: The ChoephoriWilliam Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare: Romeo And JulietWilliam Shakespeare: Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkWilliam Shakespeare: The Tragedy of MacbethWilliam Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare: King L...

Travel back to a time when divine beings mixed with mortals, when heroes battled sorcerers, and nature was a mysterious realm ruled by beautiful and dangerous deities.From the legends of Hercules and the Titans, to tales of the underworld and the destruction of Troy, these enduring myths have formed a major part of Western culture for millennia and continue to capture our imaginations today.Beautifully illustrated with dramatic scenes from master artists of...

This collection contains the following works:Euripides: MedeaSophocles: AntigoneAeschylus: AgamemnonAeschylus: EumenidesAeschylus: The ChoephoriWilliam Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Romeo And JulietWilliam Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkWilliam Shakespeare: The Tragedy of MacbethWilliam Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam ...

Sigmund Freud revolutionised the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships, Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud’s legacy today and the disputes that surround it. The first of several releases from Oxford University Press’s highly successful Very S...

‘Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas … The Status Game might be his best yet’ James Marriott, Books of the Year, The TimesWhat drives our political and moral beliefs? What makes us like some things and dislike others? What shapes how we behave, and misbehave, in groups? What makes you, you?For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and money. In

Time and Tyde is the story of Vincent Demarco, a man whose life becomes increasingly bizarre after he meets Tony Tyde, an eccentric entrepreneur claiming to be a researcher who has come from the future to study him. As a result of Tony's persistent interference in his life, and his own weakness in resisting it, Vince is drawn into Tony's world of money, beautiful women, and events so extraordinary that he begins to doubt his own sanity.Nothing makes sense any more to Vincent. Yet, ...

The most wanted man in America is about to destroy the entire nation… or save it.It’s 2066 and Sandra has kept a low profile for 16 years, working as a tech in a quiet British university, hoping her past would never catch up with her. But it has.When Jay hears Sandra has been kidnapped, he drops everything and goes to the U.S. to find her. But Sandra’s kidnapper is not an ordinary criminal. He’s America’s most-wanted terrorist a man driven to to free his country from religi...

When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of spectral lights and horrific demonic growling - and all of his safe, adult preconceptions about ghosts instantly vanish.In the cold light of day, Will decides on a quest for the truth about ghosts. He meets professional paranormal investigators and takes part in séances and a vigil in th...

World War II, Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. Yet she is unaware how instrumental her husband is in Himmler's twisted quest for Aryan supremacy. As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam's Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessing, an archaeologist who exposes the moral decay beneath the regime's myths. Her awakening drives her into perilous resistance – aiding a Jewish ...

The very funny stories of Clever Polly and the stupid wolf, gathered together in one volume, including Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, Polly and the Wolf Again, Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf and More Stories of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.Drawing occasionally on well-known fairy tales, and skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm. And Polly, not scared at all, outwits the wolf on each and ever...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL**‘If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book’ SUNDAY TIMES‘The best book on the craft of storytelling I’ve ever read’ MATT HAIG‘A masterpiece. I am in awe’ ADAM RUTHERFORDWhy stories make us human and how to tell them better.There have been many attempts to understand w...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL**‘If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book’ SUNDAY TIMES‘The best book on the craft of storytelling I’ve ever read’ MATT HAIG‘A masterpiece. I am in awe’ ADAM RUTHERFORDWhy stories make us human and how to tell them better.There have been many attempts to understand w...