A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley''s "Frankenstein" leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.'' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the ...
světová literatura v anglickém překladu - dílo Haruki Murakami vypráví příběh dvou dávných spolužáků Aomame a Tenga, ona je geniální fyzioterapeutka, on vynikající matematik se spisovatelským talentem. Ti dva se celých dvacet let neviděli, v hloubi duše ale nepřestávají myslet jeden na druhého. Oni sami ...
Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt''''s novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college ...
Homer''s great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature''s first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca''s epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife ...
''''you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret.'''' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip ...
A heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics\'' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect.Ugwu, a ...
It seems excessive.but that doesn''''t mean it didn''''t happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world''''s greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul "Slash" Hudson was ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,'' said the Spirit. ''Look upon me!'' A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens'' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching ...
Romeo Montague was in love with Juliet Capulet. He went over to her. ‘I don’t know who you are’ he said. ‘But I know that I love you.’ ‘You’re very handsome,’ she replied. ‘I think I love you too.’ Romeo kissed Juliet and then they kissed again. They were in love.The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably ...
Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother''s medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves" you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.".
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson\''s first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette\''s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a ...
