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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: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'Out of the hideously scarred soil of Flanders rose black, splintered trunks of trees' In one of the greatest war memoirs ever written, an ordinary German soldier recalls the horror and bloodlust of combat on the Western Front with brutal, unflinching candour and stark simplicity.
Ten new
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: 2014 Категорія: Класика
The adventures of the immortal Pickwick Club, headed by good Mr. Pickwick himself, have kept readers laughing for nearly two centuries. Following the intrepidly bumbling Pickwickians along the highways and byways of old England, Charles Dickens creates a vivid world of highwaymen, duels, lawsuits,
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Класика
MEET NATTY BUMPPO
The first volume in the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, the quintessential American hunter and frontiersman who struggles to defend his cherished freedom.
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by james Hogg
'He was constantly harassed with the idea, that the next time he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth
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: 2012 Категорія: Класика
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . .
Рік видання: 2008 Категорія: Класика
The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation of the "Kama Sutra" was celebrated as a literary event of the highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilisation as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the "Kama Sutra" has endured for 1,700 years as
Рік видання: 2006 Категорія: Класика
In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired the imagination of Marie Henri Beyle, and under the pen name Stendhal, he set to writing what was to become one of the great psychological novels of all time.
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Класика
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the chateau...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale.
A new series of
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Класика
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Класика
"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."
E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical.
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Сучасна література
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection
'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'He scampered over rooftops, swam in deep water, leapt from balconies.' Set in the vanished world of the shtetl of nineteenth-century eastern Europe, this spellbinding fable tells the story of Yasha: magician, mesmerist, juggler, sword swallower, master of escape - and breaker of hearts.
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
The No. 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good life
We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us?
David Brooks argues that our hunger for
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Класика
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of paradise and new discoveries that would
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
''Me have that golden gown!'' A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac's matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Дитячі книжки іноземними мовами
Dirty Beasts is a collection of hilarious animal rhymes from the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!
Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding.
A collection of (mainly) grisly beasts out for human blood, ranging from Gocky-Wock the crocodile to Sting-A-Ling the scorpion. Described in verse with
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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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