Penguin Books Ltd: In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This... Zobraziť viac
Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Bound for Glory is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore... Zobraziť viac
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission... Zobraziť viac
In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters... Zobraziť viac
In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of António Salazar, a journalist is coming to terms with the rise of fascism around him and its insidious impact on his work... Zobraziť viac
Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.'... Zobraziť viac
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future... Zobraziť viac
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma... Zobraziť viac
David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother... Zobraziť viac
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world... Zobraziť viac
In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here we meet, in particular, two of his most brilliant creations, the self-possessed... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication,... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: 'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of... Zobraziť viac
