The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul... Zobraziť viac
A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend... Zobraziť viac
Into his story of a simple but beatiful country girls seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. Zobraziť viac
Mit diesem Abenteuerroman, der hier für den Schulgebrauch gekürzt vorliegt, begründete Defoe seinen Ruhm als Schriftsteller. Er wurde innerhalb kurzer Zeit in 30 Sprachen übersetzt... Zobraziť viac
Among the unforgettable descriptions are those of the Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barricades during the July Revolution... Zobraziť viac
The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Pachinko. 'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing ... As easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance' New York Times. Casey Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined... Zobraziť viac
Strhujúci príbeh krásnej, mladej francúzskej šľachtičnej Centaine de Thiry... Zobraziť viac
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest... Zobraziť viac
‘Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’ Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly perfect yet brittle relationship of the ... Zobraziť viac
Robinson Crusoe's father wants him to be a lawyer, but he is desperate for adventure. So, against all advice, he sets out to travel the world in search of money and excitement... Zobraziť viac
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the ... Zobraziť viac
Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change... Zobraziť viac
'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th ... Zobraziť viac
'Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandler... The wisecracking dialogue, outlandish characters and vicious slapstick ... Zobraziť viac
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influences shaped ... Zobraziť viac
After five exhilarating years in New York, Stevie has a successful career and a glamorous social life. But what she most wants is a baby, an aspiration that feels impossible given that she is single, thirty-eight and living in ... Zobraziť viac
Who needs love when you can eat cheese?Heartbroken and on the cusp of turning 30, Ella decides to pack her bags and move to Paris, somewhere she had visited when she was a different, more adventurous person. It's on the streets... Zobraziť viac
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico... Zobraziť viac
No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel.I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn ... Zobraziť viac
1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite seeks escape from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger filling the latest issue of Secret Romance. She is deeply envious ... Zobraziť viac
