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Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear' Making its twenty-three-year-old author an overnight literary sensation, this story of isolated, lost lives intersecting in a small town in the American South is a masterpiece of humane sensitivity.
Ten new titles in the colourful,
Рік видання: 2018 Категорія: Класика
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Класика
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel.
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика
The ultimate science fiction classic For more than one hundred years this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
'My hour is come ... the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!' This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in
Рік видання: 1994 Категорія: Класика
When John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester ablaze with the consequences. This book is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy.
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected' Written with great humour, irony and honesty, The Way of All Flesh
Рік видання: 2019 Категорія: Дитячі книжки іноземними мовами
Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told to be quiet. Whether in science, the arts, sports or activism, women and girls throughout history have been
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
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One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by Craig Raine.
Poet and pervert,
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'.
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
This magnificent reconstruction of Napoleon's life and legend, written by a distinguished Oxford scholar, is based on intimate documents--including the personal letters of Marie-Louise and the decoded diaries of Grand Marshal Bertrand, who accompanied Napoleon to his final exile on St. Helena. It
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Класика
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics, Conrad's dark, unsettling masterpiece asks if we ever really know others, or ourselves.
A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Фантастика. Фентезі
One of fantasy's finest next-generation storytellers continues to break new ground. Michael J. Sullivan's trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
This chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism by the author of Heart of Darkness is the literary precursor to the espionage thrillers of Graham Greene and John Le Carr. Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent portrays the world of
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
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Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is Superfreakonomics. It reveals, among other things:
- Why you
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on--in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Small House at Allington" by Anthony Trollope. "What a villain you are ...a villain and a poor weak silly fool. She was too good for you."
Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind' Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Дитячі книжки іноземними мовами
Peter Pan, the "boy who would not grow up," originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero was brought to the stage by Barrie in the beloved play Peter Pan, which
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За роки діяльності було опубліковано тисячі книг англійською та іншими мовами, серед них переважає класична та сучасна література, нонфікшн, твори для дітей. Популярними у читачів є книжки Дженні Хан, Ріка Ріордана, Тейлор Дженкінс Рід, Айн Ренд, Джорджа Орвелла, Емілі Генрі, Джоджо Мойєс, Донни Тартт, Ребекки Яррос, Річарда Османа, Лінн Пейнтер, Кетрін Стокетт, Рейвен Кеннеді та інших. Видавництво вирізняється також жанровим розмаїттям: від романтичних історій для підлітків, захопливих мемуарів до гостросюжетних трилерів та детективів, «темного» фентезі. 2016-го року у видавничому домі вийшла друком праця Сергія Плохія «The Gates of Europe. A History of Ukraine».
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