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Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American ReadA stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collecti ..

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Kniha Frankenstein autora Mary Shelley vydaná v nakladatelství Wordsworth Editions v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 224, ISBN-13: 9781840228342, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent ..

The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, if not the first. A ..

Kniha Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition) vydaná v nakladatelství Union Square & Co. v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781454951575, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon.2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Clas ..

Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories laid in twentieth-century New York.

Introduction by Irving Howe; Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir "From the Hardcover edition.

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s s

A new translation by Anthea Bell, with an introduction and notes by a leading Kafka scholar; Ritchie Robertson.

Das Werk von Franz Kafka ist ein Klassiker der modernen Literatur schlechthin. In sein faszinierendes Erzähluniversum führen keine Abkürzungen und Hintertürchen: Man muss es ganz für sich persönlich entdecken und lesend erkunden. Ein Glück für jeden, ..

I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "‚The Stoker, ' 'The Metamorphosis, ' and 'The Judgment‘ belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important ..

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report t ..

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can ..

This new edition of Kafka's The Trial includes a comprehensive selection of extra material, including notes on the text, pictures and a section on Kafka's life and works.

A new translation, providing context and guidance and the most up-to-date critical thinking.

The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to th ..

Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea.Charles fal ..

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets „the treatment“ that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows ..

Lope de Vega fue llamado Fénix de los Ingenios por su talentosa yabundante obra. En ella destaca esta pieza teatral, situada en laépoca de los Reyes Católicos y escrita hacia 1.610. Fuente Ovejuna esuna loa al pueblo llano, a su fuerza humilde y capa ..

The Double, Dostoevskys second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a ..

„Demons“, also known as „The Possessed“ or „The Devils“, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. This „Penguin Classics“ edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's „Demons“ is translated by Ro ..