Penguin Picks are stories you''ll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you''ll keep coming back to but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion... From the bestselling author Marian Keyes, the hilariously heartbreaking ...
"She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car." At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, ...
V edici Sv�tov� pr�za vych�z� ji� ve�5. vyd�n� �pln� p�eklad Saint-Exup�ryho Citadely. Text, kter� se na�el v Saint-Exup�ryho poz�stalosti, byl z poloviny autorem neupravovan� a na mnoha m�stech doch�zelo k opakov�n� my�lenek. P�i kr�cen� textu byly ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend''s copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God''s sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and ...
Jak napsat román o nejdramatičtější době života, kterou byly pro mne, sedmnáctiletého gymnasistu, poslední měsíce druhé světové války, únor až květen 1945? Oba moji rodiče, kteří pomáhali příteli Vladimíru Petřekovi, kaplanu chrámu Karla Boromejského v pražské Reslově ulici, zásobovat po atentátu na ...
A tale of obsession, possession and a mystery painting from the internationally bestselling author of THE READER.
