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Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me? A gothic novella about love, torment and doomed aristocracy, set in the remote mountains of Spain. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised » ...mai mult

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENNING MANKELL Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal » ...mai mult

A lost classic lays bare the darkest moment of Frances post-war history First published in Paris in 1957, as Frances engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, On Leave received a handful of reviews » ...mai mult

All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages... A selection taken from Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little » ...mai mult

Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouacs seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) » ...mai mult

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics » ...mai mult

Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquezs masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregory » ...mai mult

When Joel Knoxs mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his » ...mai mult

Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. Rafe Khatchadorian » ...mai mult

Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. Readers » ...mai mult

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our World The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a » ...mai mult

And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go. Three sharp and powerful » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely » ...mai mult

An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy Nr. pagini: 688 pages  » ...mai mult

Enjoy Helen Simpsons sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mothers Day gift. Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice » ...mai mult

Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent Martin Amis, Observer Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes » ...mai mult

He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest... Wildes supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy » ...mai mult

The compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life » ...mai mult

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Wintersons writing. Here are » ...mai mult

A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquezs Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. » ...mai mult

A brilliantly and preposterously funny book Guardian A flawless comic novel... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally » ...mai mult

The father of contemporary European detective fiction Ann Cleeves Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most » ...mai mult

My literary hero is John Dos Passos - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) A modernist masterpiece, capturing... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s Christopher » ...mai mult