Napsal ho sedmadvacetiletý „rozhněvaný mužâ€ś, kterého vedla potřeba kritizovat a literárně zobrazit dĹŻsledky změny chudinského zákona v roce 1834. Tento zákon zrušil chudobince při jednotlivých farnostech a zavedl centralizovaný systém, který vedl ke korupci a rozkrádání prostředkĹŻ pro chudé a k ...
The Chalk Man is coming... PREORDER NOW. IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR MAKE IT THIS ONE. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER... ''If you like my stuff, you''ll like this'' STEPHEN KING ''Wonderfully creepy - like a cold blade on the back of your neck'' LEE CHILD ''A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on ...
Three men go deep into unknown parts of Africa in order to look for a lost friend. After many dangerous adventures they find him, but they also find some amazing treasures in a secret cave in a mountain. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce ...
At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface - trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old. Something made of metal.something which shouldn\''t be there.it\''s the discovery of a lifetime, ...
Twilight is the haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a visiting ...
Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams'' much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. This edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Dirk Maggs, co-producer of BBC Radio 4''s The Hitchhiker''s Guide ...
Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. Based on Mailer´s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, ´The Naked and the Dead´ is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men ...
"On 5th November 1699 the Merchant Ship Antelope foundered on a rock in the Latitude of 30 Degrees 2 minutes South. The only survivor of the crew was the ship\''s physician, Lemuel Gulliver, who some hours later awoke, bound, on a beach in the Empire of Lilliput. On 31st August 1997, Gulliver\''s direct ...
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad''''s st ar detective. At first he and his rookie partner, ...
Luke Skywalker dreamed of adventures out among the stars and alien worlds. But when he intercepted a message from a beautiful captive princess, he got more than he had bargained for and that was how the adventure of his life began....".
