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
Penguin Books Ltd: ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end... Zobraziť viac
At the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them, nicknamed La Poderosa ('the powerful one')... Zobraziť viac
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted...lives 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
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
Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in... 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
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
Penguin Books Ltd: In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire... 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: In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically... Zobraziť viac
The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic.... Zobraziť viac
A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European... Zobraziť viac
Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books... 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
Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of... Zobraziť viac
