Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience... Zobraziť viac
The quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain, fuelled by a large, eager new magazine readership... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Bonnie Greer "A masterpiece... I still get shivers down my spine whenever I read the words of Cathy:... Zobraziť viac
As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations. In Tales of Shakespeare they wished to bring their... Zobraziť viac
Austen’s hilarious early stories and sketches—complete with her delightfully quirky spelling habits—now collected in one gorgeous clothbound volume, including Lady Susan... Zobraziť viac
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature... Zobraziť viac
One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction... Zobraziť viac
Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Naess' philosophical writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature... Zobraziť viac
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth... Zobraziť viac
A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Still a source of inspiration for soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom 2000 years... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and... Zobraziť viac
Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare... Zobraziť viac
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of... Zobraziť viac
In Hot Money Naomi Klein lays out the evidence that deregulated capitalism is waging war on the climate, and shows that, in order to stop the damage, we must change everything we think about how our world is run... Zobraziť viac
In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, Aldo Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as 'trophic cascades'... Zobraziť viac
The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery... Zobraziť viac
A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high society... Zobraziť viac
The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural... Zobraziť viac
