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
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
An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives in the post... The narrator of this story spends her free time in her loft. It is a retreat where she can draw undisturbed... 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
A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde’s only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface and murky depths of Victorian high society. Dorian Gray is young, arrogant and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty... 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
A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love‘If one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to... 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 is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection... 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
Parties and Passions is a literary celebration. Love, betrayal, sadness, humour, boredom and more are explored in this collection of party stories by classic authors. Featuring tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Parties and... Zobraziť viac
'Moves so intensely and inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describing' The New York Times Book Review'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?'On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific,... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.' The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be... Zobraziť viac
He whom Love touches not walks in darkness. At an elite Athenian drinking party in 416 BCE, a group of friends take their turn to speak in praise of Eros, god of love. At this symposium the guests, including statesmen, playwrights, poets and... Zobraziť viac
Albeit that she is not yet 21, Emma Woodhouse foresees a future as a spinster dabbling in matchmaking. Charming and infuriating, she almost ruins the marriage prospects of Harriet Smith, her protégée, after misguidedly attempting to match Harriet with... Zobraziť viac
This gripping five-book collection showcases the most well-known and beloved works of fiction from Franz Kafka, now presented with striking new cover designs.From K.'s travel to the United States and his troubles as an immigrant in Amerika, to the... Zobraziť viac
James Joyce's only surviving play, Exiles builds upon one of his most famous short stories, 'The Dead', as well as elements of his own life. It follows the story of writer Richard Rowan, who, along with his 'common-law wife' Bertha and their young son... Zobraziť viac
One of Faber's hand-picked classics that no home should be without. Animal Farm is the timeless story of revolution - now with an exciting new cover and inside illustrations by Chris Mould. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than... Zobraziť viac
‘The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict’ Italo Calvino Gonzalo is a highly educated man living alone with his ageing, widowed mother in a town scarred... Zobraziť viac
In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life, but it was not until Aristotle produced The Art of Rhetoric in the 4th century bc that the subject had a true masterpiece. Brilliantly explained and carefully reasoned, The Art of Rhetoric... Zobraziť viac
