Penguin Books (2781 kníh )
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Jay Rubin The Penguin Book of Japanese Short StoriesA major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami. This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from ...
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Brian MacArthur The Penguin Book of Modern SpeechesWhether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, speeches have profoundly influenced the way ...
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Louise L. Hayová The Penguin Book of Norse MythsThe extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories. A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, ..
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The Penguin Book of OulipoBrought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and conundrums. Featuring writers including Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau...
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Philip Hensher The Penguin Book of the British Short Story ENThe British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones, from the story's origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding, to the 'golden age' of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period, ending with the First World War. Including the most famous authors as well as some…
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Philip Hensher The Penguin Book of the British Short Story from P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith EN'Eclectic, entertaining ... almost all British, if not human, life is here' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'. She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!' Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected: this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. From Angela…
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Philip Hensher The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short StoryA spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be ...
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Jane Austen The Penguin Complete Jane Austen ENFew novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage - marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they…
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Jane Austen The Penguin Complete of Jane Austen ENFew novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close.Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage - marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they…
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Robert Layton, Ivan March The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings ENDownloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today - but how do you pick your way through the vast array of music now on offer? The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski, to create an…
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Jonathan Fenby The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third EditionIn 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. T
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William Gibson The Peripheral ENFlynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seve/nty-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things though are good for the haves, and there aren't many have-nots…
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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera ENThe ghastly, masked Erik in love with beautiful songtress Christine is familiar to theatre and cinema audiences but the original thriller that inspired the 1922 movie and later Andrew Lloyd Webber, remains largely unread. Written in 1911 it has all the markings of a sensational novel. In the opening pages the stage-hand Buquet is found swinging silently from a rope between two panels of scenery; the dancers twitter…
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Clive Cussler, Graham Brown The Pharaoh's Secret ENA deadly poison. On the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa a mysterious ship runs aground, explodes and releases a poisonous black mist. As the island's inhabitants fall where they stand, someone sends a distress call. A rescue missionKurt Austin and the NUMA team are diving for antiquities when they pick up the call. As the only vessel for hundreds of miles, they attempt to rescue survivors. But something is very…
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Penelope Lively The PhotographThe words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with...
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Aeham Ahmad The Pianist of YarmoukThe incredible and inspirational true story of one young man's struggle to find peace during war, and the power of music to bring hope to a desperate nation...
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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray ENUpon seeing his own striking portrait Dorian Gray is bewitched and offers his soul if only the painting will age while he remains eternally youthful.
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John le Carré The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life ENFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Pit and the Pendulum ENThis selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In The Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him,…
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Albert Camus The Plague ENIt starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers. Some resign themselves to death or the whims of fate. But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror.
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Alain de Botton The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work ENWhy do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us, work is a straitjacket from which we cannot free ourselves. Criss-crossing the world to visit workplaces and workers both ordinary and extraordinary, and drawing on the wit and…
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Evie Hunter The Pleasures of Autumn ENLet Evie Hunter, the bestselling Irish erotica author, light up your autumn fires with her latest sizzling novel, The Pleasures of Autumn. This is another of hot-hot-hot tale of romantic obsession and explosive sexual chemistry, a novel that fans of Sylvia Day, Kitty French and E.L. James will love and devour.When museum curator Sinead O'Sullivan is charged with stealing the Fire of Autumn, a dazzling ruby with a…
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Evie Hunter The Pleasures of Spring ENHe picked up her hand where it grasped the water glass, felt her pulse and looked into her eyes. 'You don't want a man with manners. You want someone who will let you walk on the wild side, who knows what you're really like...' Roz Spring is an actress and a chameleon, the kind of woman who always lands on her feet. But even Roz can't talk her way out of witnessing a murder, and she must go into hiding before the…
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Evie Hunter The Pleasures of Summer ENSummer O'Sullivan is rich, beautiful and in mortal danger. Her father has powerful enemies who are targeting his precious daughter. Until the threat passes, Summer needs a bodyguard - someone to protect her and, she expects, to treat her with the reverence she's used to. Into Summer's gilded cage comes former ranger, Flynn Grant. As far as Flynn is concerned, this is the assignment from hell, minding the spoilt…