"Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little."
"You must get beneath the words before you can say them. The text must be in you. It is your job to fill, not to empty[...]

Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.
This long-awaited companion to her [...]

A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is [...]

This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth.
Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by[...]

Bear uses all his senses as he joins the members of his family in their many activities, from smelling the bread his grandmother bakes to hearing the drums his cousin plays.[...]

Young readers are invited to anticipate Bear's fun activities as he introduces various types of weather, in a playful, rhyming concept board book illustrated by the creator of The Animal Boogie.[...]

Follow bear upstairs and downstairs on a guided tour of his home: see what he keeps and what he does in the different rooms. This bilingual edition includes vocabulary words in French and English and a captioned floor plan. Perfect for classroom or home learning. Education Market: Supports the new[...]

-Introduces opposites to young readers who will meet many lively creatures along the way. -A colourful frieze at the end of the book shows the animals' habitats. -Praise for Stephanie Bauer's illustrations: 'The saturated, fluorescent acrylics and genially rudimentary shapes brim with good cheer, w[...]

Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao?s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor. Journalist Stella[...]

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath. This book tells the intertwined stories. It conjures up a Georgian world of war and peace, the choppy seas and backwaters of international diplomacy in a changing world of ancient regimes and radical ideas, and[...]

An invisible on mainland Britain was the worst possible news. For Liz Carlyle, an MI5 Intelligence officer, this report from MI6 marks the start of an operation which will test her to the limit and put her own life in jeopardy. As she sifts the incoming evidence and gets reports from her agents she [...]

The story of four sisters, Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, great-grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period from 1740 to 1832. Underlying the drama of their aristocratic existence is a story of everyday life. Winner of the 1995 Fawcett Book Prize.[...]

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labeled'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert M[...]