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The classic story from Roald Dahl, about an exceptional young girl with extraordinary powers. Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but...

This edition of Shelley's second novel, transcribed and introduced by Deanna Koretsky, explores the work both as a complex portrayal of taboo desires and as an intergenerational story of reckoning with the horrors of racism and patriarchy. Mathilda is often understood as biographical, but this edition also highlights the issues of justice, gender, and rights. 

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘There is some kind of magic in you somewhere.’ This edition of Matilda, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very...

Writing to her only friend from her deathbed, Mathilda finally reveals the history that led to her isolated life of despairing melancholy. Of her mother dying in childbirth, her father's confession of his incestuous desire and subsequent suicide, and her relationship with a handsome young poet that fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The haunting and relentlessly self-examining voice of Mary Shelley's protagonist is a bare narrative of trauma of a brave woman's failed search for love, atonement, and redemption.

The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819-20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common romantic themes but also incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Mathilda’s emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.

Das Geheimnis der Gutsherrin. Die große Löwenhof-Saga von Corina Bomann geht weiter! Südschweden, 1931. Mathilda ist 16 und nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter Waise. Völlig überrascht steht sie plötzlich der beeindruckenden Agneta Lejongård gegenüber. Die ihr unbekannte Gutsherrin ist ihr Vormund und nimmt sie mit auf den Löwenhof. Mathilda ahnt nicht, dass Agneta ihre Tante ist. Und noch bevor sie die Wahrheit über ihre Herkunft erfährt, bricht in Europa ein neuer Krieg aus.

A podcast on moving towards what's meaningful despite hardship.

A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages.   

What if your best friend was a unicorn? Chapter book readers are flocking to this magical series, where everyone is paired with their very own unicorn! Matilda loves to have fun. She's not too worried that her unicorn, Pearl, hasn't found her magic yet. She also loves her friends at Unicorn...

On Hallowe'en night, Mathilda Honeycutt finds out she's a SuperWitch. Not the modern, hippie kind...the real, wand-wielding, pixie-dust kind. After a life devoted to retail and coffee drinks, Mathilda is thrown into the secret world of witches, werewolves, vampires, faeries, you name it, it exists! As Mathilda discovers her magic, she also discovers she's prophesied to save the world. The problem is, she'd rather spend her time on online auctions bidding on fabulous designer shoes.

Tout au fil du roman, mère et fille se cherchent, se fuient, se blessent sans jamais oublier de s'aimer. Comment être une bonne mère quand notre enfant nous échappe ? Comment être une bonne fille quand on a honte de celle qui nous a tout donné ? Alors, il faudra rompre l'héritage. Briser la chaîne. Pour que mère et fille, enfin, se réunissent et trouvent la force d'être libres.

From Stanford professor, author of Limitless Mind, youcubed.org founder, and leading expert in the field of mathematics education Jo Boaler comes a groundbreaking guide to finding joy and understanding by adopting a diverse approach to learning math. “Every once in a while, someone...

At the side of the most famous warlord of history, Matilda worked, not as a quiet, modest wife, but as a leader...as a ruler just as ruthless as her husband. Under her soft mask of beauty and modesty there lay the heart of a woman powered by ambition. A woman who was strong, courageous, and devious.... Through the eyes of one of the most extraordinary women of history unfold the events leading to the invasion of England and the battle that would decide its fate....  

From her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story she has carried in silence—one marked by love, loss, and a devastating truth that reshaped her life forever. Orphaned young and raised in emotional distance, she is reunited with her father only to face a revelation so profound it fractures their bond and drives him toward irreversible despair.

In Redu, einem kleinen Bücherdorf inmitten der belgischen Ardennen, wird die Zeit als Freund und nicht als Gegner empfunden: Umgeben von ausgedehnten Wäldern, rauschenden Flüssen und steilen Anhöhen gibt es hier lediglich einen Fernseher, während das Internet nur zwischen 19 und 20 Uhr verfügbar ist. Als dann jedoch die junge Französin Marie ins Dorf kommt und der Frühling Einzug hält, wird nicht nur die Natur zu neuem Leben erweckt. Selbst die mürrische Mathilde kann sich dieser Entwicklung nicht entziehen.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now with exclusive new content from the paperback edition, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons...

Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda, a young woman barely in her twenties, writes her story as a way of explaining her actions to her friend, Woodville. Her narration follows her lonely upbringing and climaxes at a point when her unnamed father confesses his incestuous love for her. Mathilda has also been seen as an example of redefining female Gothic narratives which includes the first person female narrator having more control over the story than was common at the time.

She did not write a horror novel. She wrote the founding document of modern science fiction — and then spent thirty years writing books the world was too distracted to read. Mary Shelley published Frankenstein at nineteen. The world reduced it to a monster in a castle, a bolt-necked figure in a laboratory, a Halloween costume. What she actually wrote was a philosophical inquiry into creation itself — what we owe to the beings we bring into existence, and what becomes of them, and of us, when we refuse to answer. That question haunted her for three decades. She answered it again and ...

"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile This program is read by the author. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE! The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with...

I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it's night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I broke a plate. I said sorry Ma it slipped. But it didn't slip, that's how I am sometimes, and I want to be worse.