Penguin Books (2781 kníh )
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Clive Cussler, Graham Brown Sea of GreedKurt Austin and the NUMA crew are back in the latest action-packed adventure from Sunday Times bestselling author Clive Cussler. A biological disaster is looming and the key to saving the future seems...
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Tom Nancollas Seashaken HousesLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much. Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They
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Jane Green Second Chance ENStep inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say that they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong... Holly is desperately lonely. She has spent her entire marriage trying to be the perfect wife but she is missing the one thing she really wants - a husband she can…
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Anne Frank Secret Annexe: from The Diary of Anne Frank ENFor her thirteenth birthday Anne Frank received a diary as a present from her father. She kept it from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944. In this diary, which she addressed to an imaginary friend called Kitty, Anne wrote about her life - first in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and then, when the Nazi persecution of Jews forced her family into hiding, in the sealed-off back rooms of an Amsterdam office building, which they…
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Nicci French Secret Smile***Special anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Erin Kelly*** You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over. You're dead wrong... Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good...
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Richard Peck, Kelly Murphy (ilustrácie) Secrets at SeaIn the beloved tradition of The Borrowers, The Tale of Desperaux, and The Cricket in Times Square, here is an irresistible adventure story of the tiny individuals who secretly live among us humans. Helena is the oldest of four mouse siblings...
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Jack Cheng See You in the Cosmos ENAn astonishingly moving middle-grade debut about a space-obsessed boy's quest for family and home. All eleven-year old Alex wants is to launch his iPod into space. With a series of audio recordings, he will show other lifeforms out in the cosmos what life on Earth, his Earth, is really like. But for a boy with a long-dead dad, a troubled mum, and a mostly-not-around brother, Alex struggles with the big questions. …
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George Orwell Seeing Things as They Are EN'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily TelegraphGeorge Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles, essays, broadcasts, poems, book and film reviews from across his career, shows his unmatched genius for observing the world. Whether discussing Polish immigration or…
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Maryse Condé SeguThe bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty. It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, ...
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William Blake Selected Poems ENSúborné dielo rebela anglickej poézie, plné mnohoznačností, tajomných symbolov, mystiky, sexu a religiozity, pomocou ktorých Blake preberá otázky ľudského života, jeho existencie. William Blake include questions of the proper place of intellectual control in the personality, the place of impulse, the relations between authority and those it controls (and therefore between elders and children), the relations of…
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Rainer Maria Rilke Selected PoemsHailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and `willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. ..
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Virginia Woolf Selected Short Stories'Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! ...
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Anton Chekhov Selected Stories ENPraised by Tolstoy as an incomparable artist, Chekov is considered one of the masters of the short story. This collection features twenty of his most noted stories, including The Confession, Ninotchka, and The Cure for Drinking.
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Edgar Allan Poe Selected Tales ENSince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very…
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility ENSisters Marianne and Elinor couldn´t be more different. Marianne is desperately romantic and longing to meet the man of her dreams, while Elinor takes a far more cautious approach to love...
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Jane Austen, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Sense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster, University of OxfordMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves…
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Carlo Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ENIndependent, Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Scientist, Evening Standard Books of the Year 2015, The Sunday Times Bestseller. Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons 'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking' These seven short…
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Leonid Andreyev Seven Hanged ENThis astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. With a powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a best-seller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic…
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Sinead Moriarty Seven LettersSarah loves being a mother - it defines her. Every year she writes a birthday letter of love to her adored daughter, Izzy, now seven. And after she falls pregnant, she promises Izzy that the arrival of a baby brother will make their family complete...
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John Gray Seven Types of AtheismA meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's leading philosophers. For a generation now, public debate has been corroded ...
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Sylvia Day Seven Years to Sin ENSeven Years to Sin - a classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a smart, sensual story of a young woman's sexual awakening at the hands of a handsome rogue in Regency England. Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, young Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a scandalous seduction by the roguish Alistair…
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Gabriel García Márquez Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen ENMarquez is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen, we present several short stories that reveal the range and depth found in one of modern literature's greatest authors.
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Henry Miller SexusSexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work. Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'...
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Deborah Harkness Shadow of NightJ. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice—only a few writers capture the imagination the way that Deborah Harkness has done with books one and two of her New York Times–bestselling All Souls trilogy...