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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti ha...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the qu...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksComposed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage through an enthralling world...Lasīt vairāk
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy! A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating cons...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a...Lasīt vairāk
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Muriel Spark claimed The Drivers Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen’s short st...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this bo...Lasīt vairāk
... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!A group of passengers o...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPlagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient p...Lasīt vairāk
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken. Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate ...Lasīt vairāk
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captains wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton unhappily married to...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight,...Lasīt vairāk
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showc...Lasīt vairāk
