This handsome jacketed hardback edition presents The Trial and Death of Socrates with striking two-colour page illustrations and a ribbon marker. Socrates is one of the great figures of Western history and the founding father of its philosophical... Zobraziť viac
Edgar Allan Poe's arresting poetry is brought together here in this handsome hardback edition with classic full-colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac.Exploring grief, memory, love and the strange pull of the unknown, The Raven & Other Poems... Zobraziť viac
A stunning visual guide to the worlds created by one of horror's most influential writers.In this fascinating reference guide, you will discover the secrets and mysteries of H. P. Lovecraft's iconic worlds. From the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos... Zobraziť viac
The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare Hutton'His writing is not about something; it is that something itself' Samuel BeckettJames Joyce's towering genius as a novelist... Zobraziť viac
In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. Peter Parker's fascinating new compendium explores what it... Zobraziť viac
Witty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature. Its thirty-nine superb stories run the length of the literal and imaginative creation of Poland, from 1918 (when Poland regained its independence after... Zobraziť viac
A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore LeonardOrdell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap…They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn’t... Zobraziť viac
Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to Zobraziť viac
When four very different English women abandon their grey, constricted lives for a month in a rented Italian castle, none of them expects to be changed. Yet beneath the warm April sun, amid the scent of wisteria and the glittering Mediterranean, old... Zobraziť viac
As the nights draw in and the old year slips away, the haunting season begins. Twigs scrape at windowpanes in the darkness, mysterious footprints are found in the snow, and all sorts of mysteries, monsters and nastiness are in the offing. Bringing... Zobraziť viac
While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past... Zobraziť viac
A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival. A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge... Zobraziť viac
Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks... Zobraziť viac
Emily Brontë's classic novel of love and revenge is presented here in a beautiful hardback edition with gold embossing and stencilled page edges. First published in 1847, this Gothic novel by Emily Brontë is a tragic tale of destructive love and... Zobraziť viac
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in war-torn France for a long holiday. Full of anticipation and enthusiasm, Harold and Barbara Rhodes find themselves enchanted by the glamour and charm of Paris. But as they travel further into... Zobraziť viac
Investigate impossible mysteries with the world's greatest private detective, Sherlock Holmes, in this beautiful, collectable new Little Puffin Clothbound Classic. ‘As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.’... Zobraziť viac
A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature. WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICKCaliban Shrieks’ narrator... Zobraziť viac
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America’s Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of... Zobraziť viac
This handsome hardback edition presents H. P. Lovecraft's classic cosmic horror novella At the Mountains of Madness, among other celebrated tales, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.In H. P. Lovecraft's chilling novella, At the... Zobraziť viac
New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Joyce's seminal story collection about ordinary Dublin lives 'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance' Sunday TimesJames Joyce's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-five,... Zobraziť viac
