Penguin Books (2781 kníh )
-
John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga 2 ENIn this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.
-
John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga 3 ENJohn Galsworthy’s sweeping trilogy of family fortunes began with the crumbling values of the Victorian Age, moved through the First World War, and now concludes in the 1930s, where more dramatic change is taking place. In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of…
-
Franz Werfel The Forty Days of Musa DaghFranz Werfel's masterpiece tells the true story of the inhabitants of six Armenian villages on the mountain of Musa Dagh, who choose to defy the deportation order of the Turkish government and are subsequently besieged on the mountainside...
-
Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love ENElla Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family…
-
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead ENHer first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Defying the conventions of the world around him, he…
-
Coralie Bickford-Smith The Fox and the Star ENOnce there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit the forest paths each night. But then one night Star wasn't there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone. The Fox and the Star is a beautiful work of prose and design, each page thoughtfully created by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
-
Gregory Zuckerman The Frackers ENIn 2006 the US was running out of energy. From running a city to turning on a lightbulb, the entire country depended on dwindling energy sources tied up in international politics. Then came the Frackers. Ambitious and headstrong, these few pioneers - some without degrees or backgrounds in geology - risked their livelihoods in the stubborn search under the soil. What they found transformed the nation, and the world.…
-
David Bezmozgis The Free WorldIn the summer of 1978 the Krasnansky family - bickering, tired and confused - arrive in Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees they await passage to a new home in the West...
-
Aristophanes The Frogs ENThis riotous play from ancient Greece's greatest comic dramatist blends fancy dress, earthy slapstick and political debate.
-
Emma Thompson The Further Tale of Peter RabbitWarne: In The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit, a new tale written by Emma Thompson, Peter's adventures take him beyond the boundaries of Mr McGregor's garden all the way to Scotland. Here he meets the gentle giant Finlay McBurney, a distant Scottish relative, and much entertainment ensues. Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning actress and screen writer, is a long time admirer of Beatrix Potter's tales. She has a talent for…
-
Paul Collier The Future of CapitalismFrom world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. ..
-
Michio Kaku The Future of HumanityThe No.1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in space. Human civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it happen? ...
-
Lawrence Freedman The Future of WarFor as long as there have been wars there have been fears about the next war. Where are the new dangers? What is the best defence? How might peace come about? ...
-
Anna Pitoniak The FuturesJulia and Evan fall in love as undergraduates at Yale. For Evan, a scholarship student from a rural Canadian town, Yale is a whole new world, and Julia—blond, beautiful, and rich—fits perfectly into...
-
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti The Futurist Cookbook ENPart manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will increase creativity.…
-
Stanislaw Lem The Futurological CongressHapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers ...
-
Izabella Hearn The Galapagos ENThe Galapagos Islands are beautiful. They are full of interesting animals and birds. One famous visitor to the islands , in 1835, was the scientist Charles Darwin. Now the two young Americans, Sophie and David, are making a movie there. What do they find?
-
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott The Gangster ENIsaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special “Black Hand Squad,” but the gangsters appear to be everywhere so much so that Bell begins to…
-
Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe ENFrom award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis. At the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, caught between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - that left their imprint on the landscape, the…
-
Elif Shafak The Gaze EN‘I didn’t say anything. I didn’t return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.’ An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. But while the…
-
The GCHQ Puzzle BookIf 3=T, 4=S, 5=P, 6=H, 7=H ... what is 8? What is the next letter in the sequence: M, V, E, M, J, S, U, ? Which of the following words is the odd one out: CHAT, COMMENT, ELF, MANGER, PAIN, POUR? ...
-
Gabriel García Márquez The General in His Labyrinth EN'It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena, and he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life.' At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs,…
-
Patricia Wastvedt The German Boy ENIn 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitler Youth, Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions. Among them a portrait of a girl with long copper hair by a young painter called Michael Ross - and with…
-
Arun Gandhi The GiftThe moving, often irreverent, story of Arun's years growing up at the iconic Sevagram ashram provides the setting for the treasured moments spent his grandfather, which are an engaging and often surprising read. These memories give a rare insight into ...