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Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'"After all," he said, "you're only a monkey spirit. How can you delude yourself into supposing that you can seize the Jade Emperor's throne?"' Featuring the adventures of the irrepressible, cloud-riding trickster Monkey and his band of unruly disciples, this centuries-old Chinese fantasy blends
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Класика
Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature.
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Класика
'Little jets of wheezing laughter followed one another out of his convulsed body. His eyes, twinkling with cunning enjoyment, glanced at every moment towards his companion's face.' 'When he was quite sure that the narrative had ended he laughed noiselessly for fully half a minute. Then he said:
Рік видання: 2018 Категорія: Класика
My heart
brims with billows
and minnows
of shadows and silver
Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its
Рік видання: 2018 Категорія: Класика
Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.
This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes
Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Класика
'Her fragrant body and burning red lips' A married couple reveal their darkest sexual fantasies to each other, in this erotic psychodrama of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twentieth-century Vienna.
Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Confidence - Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool' In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
'"She was a brazen hussy."
"She wasn't. - And she was pretty, wasn't she?"
"I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Класика
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive....' Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, fighting and great warriors in the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, inspired by Tolstoy's years as a soldier living amid the Cossack people.
A new series of twenty distinctive,
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика
Black Beauty begins life in a loving home. But his owners are forced to sell him, and Black Beauty's fortunes change. He is moved from place to place and job to job, often suffering cruel treatment and harsh conditions - until a chance encounter leads to a new turn of events.
Рік видання: 2005 Категорія: Класика
In the post-Napoleonic era, Edmond Dants, a young sailor from Marseilles, is poised to become captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest, condemning him to lifelong imprisonment. Then Edmond's sole companion in prison reveals his secret plan of escape
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: 2018 Категорія: Класика
'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate, unfulfilled woman considers her life and her marriage in this moving novella by one of America's finest short story writers.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
Bawdy and exotic, "Arabian Nights, " feature the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth' A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
Oscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong--with pithy dialogue as
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