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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject a ..

‚The chief thing is that they all need him‘ -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoyevsky, Myshkin succee ..

Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in aland of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of hissociety's. Revised reissue.

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

This edition contains all of Mansfi eld's published short stories from different collections, including `The Garden Party' and `In a German Pension'.

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471–1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. „Gargantua“ dep ..

‚Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.‘ Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh and shocking stories of northwest India, where he gr ..

Ставший культовым в молодежной среде, роман „Generation "П“ посвяшен явлению, проникшему во все поры нашей повседневной жизни, – рекламе. Многие склонны брезгливо отмахиваться от нее как от назойливой мухи, считая чем-то несерьезным. Но разве рекламн ..

Es ist die Geschichte zweier durch Anlage und Schicksal völlig verschiedener und dennoch befreundeter Künstlernaturelle, des leidgeprüften Komponisten Kuhn und des Sänger – Don Juans Heinrich Muoth, deren beider Liebe zu Gertrud ihre künstlerische un ..

Die blaue Blume aus Novalis Roman Heinrich von Ofterdingen ist zum Inbegriff romantischer Sehnsucht und Träumerei geworden. Novalis selbst verkörpert für viele das romantisch-sensible Junggenie schlechthin. Darüber hinaus aber war Novalis als Bergbau ..

Frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. These short works display the imagination of a master storyteller given free rein.

A newly reissued edition of Agatha Christie's ‚Mary Westmacott‘ novel, a Crime of the Heart novel about a soldier who returns from the grave.

Con crudo minimalismo „L'airone“ racconta una giornata di caccia di Edgardo Limentani, di cui registra il montare lento e inesorabile del disgusto, del suo orrore sordo per l'esistenza. Siamo nell'inverno del 1947, nelle nebbie della Bassa, il risveg ..

Considered an ‚audacious‘ second novel, „Giovanni's Room“ is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence.This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

Kniha Girlcrush vydaná v nakladatelství Octopus Publishing Group v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 384, ISBN-13: 9781914240577, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge – of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Kne ..

Kniha God Emperor of Dune vydaná v nakladatelství Ace Books v roce 2020, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 496, ISBN-13: 9780593201756, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

„There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.“ The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and o ..

Nine gripping tales by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: „The Fall of the House of Usher,“ „The Tell-Tale Heart,“ „The Pit and the Pendulum,“ 6 others. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel – the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety.It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his trans ..

The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara soon realizes that young men can't resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother's ladylike ways ..

Kniha Gone with the Wind autora Margaret Mitchell vydaná v nakladatelství Pan Macmillan v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 1024, ISBN-13: 9781529091410, zařazení do kategorie: Georgie (stát USA).

Sasha has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest and most desperate moments. Her past lies in wait for her in cafes and bars, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and reality. When she is picked up by a young man, she begins to feel that she is still capable of desires.