Essays

EssaysBy: Plutarch Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish

and every boy's hero

Prince of Cats - and the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic

as FDR noted

but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play

Discover how meerkats post sentries to guard their homes and possums play dead

Natalie Tan returns home

This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation

Tephlon Funk

an approach highly unusual for his or any age

一九五三年出生於日本愛媛縣。以《猜謎小旅行》日文原文書獲得一九九九年波隆納國際兒童書展圖畫書特別獎肯定；是日本最受歡迎的全方位童書作家之一。

The monsters in the The Night Before Halloween want you to join them for another adventure