The Stonewall is an ideal choice for those players who are keen to avoid the reams of theory that surround more popular openings such as the King's Indian and Nimzo-Indian Defenses. Aby playing...
In the Closed Sicilian an awareness of the strategies and plans is far more important than the simple memorising of variations. Whites play is logical and the basic ideas are simple to master....
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the...
The Dutch Defence is an ambitious and underrated counter to the queen's pawn opening. With his very first move Black creates an asymmetrical pawn structure, thus unbalancing the position from a...
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no...
Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of the four sisters' dreams,...
The Scotch Game is an ideal opening weapon for White. It's ambitious, totally sound and leads to a wide variety of strategically complex positions. The Scotch was a particular favourite of...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Animal Farm" is the most famous żeby far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) That Machiavelli's name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of "The Prince"-the...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem,...
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from...
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known...
This is an updated and largely expanded edition of "Starting Out: The Sicilian", the highly acclaimed guide to the most popular and famous opening in chess. In this user-friendly book,...
Craig Pritchett leads you through an unforgettable learning experience that builds on the extraordinary life and games of the first World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz.