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Книги видавництва Penguin Books
Рік видання: 2013 Категорія: Класика
Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure--a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea--and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled
Рік видання: 2014 Категорія: Класика
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The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong
Рік видання: 2013 Категорія: Іноземна класика
Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to define her. Emma is oblivious to the realities of life, and her romantic delusions and search for
Рік видання: 2014 Категорія: Детектив. Трилер
INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . .
A truly brilliant thriller by Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon is a Jack Ryan novel.
Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; the
Рік видання: 1994 Категорія: Класика
This is a tale of Dives and Lazarus, of the comfortable pinnacle and the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. It is told, however, without simplification and without hatred.
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her ...' Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?' A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Класика
'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason...' Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a
Рік видання: 2013 Категорія: Дитячі книжки іноземними мовами
For more than 150 years, Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairy tales have charmed and entertained audiences around the world. Blending old folk tales with fantasy, the Danish bard's stories are rich in humor and sharp with irony. The forty-seven fables in this beautifully translated collection
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy.
'As you got older, ...you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика
Kidnapped is a classic adventure story, as thrilling today as when it was first published. As he sets off into the world to seek his last remaining kinsman, Uncle Ebenezer, young David Balfour has no idea of the hazards and intrigues that the encounter will, bring. He finds his uncle'to be a
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Класика
Meet the fat, flatulent and eloquent Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's light and pithy comic tale A Confederacy of Dunces, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics,
Рік видання: 2009 Категорія: Класика
Robert Louis Stevenson's glorious passport to romance and high adventure. Here is the story of young David Balfour, whose miserly uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery. But justice triumphs--after a spirited odyssey that
Рік видання: 2014 Категорія: Сучасна література
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill is a chilling novel that explores the extremes of childhood cruelty, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
'To the utterly at-one with Siva
there's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at
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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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