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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.

The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage ..

The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s, this extra-t ..

‚She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.‘ A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings – featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and bab ..

To coincide with the upcoming major motion picture from Disney, set to be released in March 2017, starring Emma Watson as Belle. Originally published in 1740 by Madame de Villeneuve, this timeless fairy tale is the third in „Harper Design“'s newest series of deluxe reimagined children's classics.

V etot sbornik voshli dve ranniye povesti Dostoyevskogo – „Belyye nochi“ i „Netochka Nezvanova“, kotoryye schitayutsya samymi poetichnymi proizvedeniyami velikogo romanista. „Belyye nochi“ – odno iz luchshikh proizvedeniy shkoly "sentimental'nogo nat ..

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk pos ..

Nach jahrelanger Galeerenstrafe kehrt der jüdische Fürst Judah Ben Hur in seine Heimat Judäa zurück. Er plant einen Aufstand gegen die römischen Besatzer und wendet sich der neuen Glaubensbotschaft eines Zeitgenossen namens Jesus Christus zu. Doch zu ..

The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the legendary Scandinavian past, Beowulf comes to the aid of the Danish king Hr ..

SANTIAGO GARCIA and DAVID RUBIN unite to bring forward the myth of Beowulf, which has endured for a thousand years, inspired an epic poem, become a foundational piece of English literature, and influenced generations of authors: from J.R.R. Tolk

A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf–and fifty years after the translation that continues to

Kniha Beren and Luthien autora John Ronald Reuel Tolkien vydaná v nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, ISBN-13: 9780008655655, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Ein Klassiker der literarischen Moderne»Berlin Alexanderplatz« gehört neben dem »Ulysses« von James Joyce und »Manhattan Transfer« von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschie ..

Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embro

Ein Klassiker der literarischen Moderne§Berlin Alexanderplatz gehört neben dem Ulysses von James Joyce und Manhattan Transfer von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschienen, ..

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism ..

The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and tech ..

Kniha Beware of Pity autora Stefan Zweig vydaná v nakladatelství Penguin Books v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 384, ISBN-13: 9780241678763, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…

„The Big Sleep“ is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all Los Angeles. PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants ..

Featured in this rich collection are „Billy Budd,“ Melville's posthumously published novella; a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, „Moby-Dick;“ and the short stories The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and Bartleby, along with a new Introduction. Revised reissue.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

First }Penguin Classics{ edition.

Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and a ..