Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Central Europe**.**Discover Central Europe's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from hiking through vineyards, to visiting beautiful turreted castles, and exploring charming small towns.Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's Central Europe

This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Wales travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from feeling the pull of the past at medieval fantasy castle Carreg Cennen; to mountain biking in the wilds of Brechfa Forest; and slurping Atlantic Edge Oysters, ...

Lonely Planet's Best Road Trips******Great Britain reveals 37 incredible escapes - with maps - so you can experience the freedom of the open road.Get ready for a road trip like no other and discover unforgettable drives across Great Britain that range from 2-day escapes to adventures of a week or more, from motoring through the majestic Welsh mountains, to visiting the mysterious Stoneheng...

Q is for Quantum is the seventeenth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. In this book you will find a collection of thirteen mind-bending tales from some of the most skilled independent horror authors writing today. From time-travel to space exploration, parallel worlds to futuristic technology gone wrong, Q is for Quantum brings an unsettling selection of sci-fi horror tales that will have you questioning the reality of this dimension.

Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on Löwy and Sayre’s Romanticism Against...

Hooray, it’s Mermaid Day and the mer-queen is throwing a fin-tastic party!The castle is glittering, and so are the guests as creatures of all kinds swim inside.Dolphins dance, narwhals play ring toss, and the underwater band sings mermazing songs. But when an unexpected guest arrives, the party screeches to a halt. Could this be the end of the Mermaid Day fun?This heartwarming and inclusive story is perfect for everyone who enjoyed the dancing, prancing fun of Unico...

A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War.At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul Bäumer enlists in the German Army. He is deployed to the Western Front, where the experience of life and death in the tren...

The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tragic story ...

A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from da...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. • The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's AppendixOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsThe Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in li...

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and wa...

Narrated by Derek PerkinsFrom a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the tw...