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In seinem Goethe-Roman ist es Thomas Mann gelungen, „den großen Alten auf die Bühne zu stellen“. Ausgangspunkt ist der historisch belegte Besuch Charlotte Kestners, Goethes unglückliche Jugendliebe und Vorbild für die Figur der Lotte im ‚Werther‘, 18 ..

Love of Life, and Other Stories By Jack London

„Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be.“–San Francisco ExaminerAn enduring classic and the basis for the blockbuster 1970 film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGra

A true classic – and the ‚single most beautiful…and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century‘ Nail Gaiman

'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life – a loathsome n ..

One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled „The Defense“. The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.

In 1888 Henry James wrote ‚There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight‘. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly app ..

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was su ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '!for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her hea ..

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious ..

Hans Castorp is ‚a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man‘ when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxica ..

When his relaxing vacation is interrupted by a small-town murder, Inspector Maigret can't resist lending his investigative powers to the case Inspector Maigret and his wife take a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to t

Kniha Main Street autora Sinclair Lewis vydaná v nakladatelství Alma Books Ltd. v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 341, ISBN-13: 9781847498960, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS – five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays b ..

Samoye znamenitoye proizvedeniye Antuana de Sent-Ekzyuperi s avtorskimi risunkami. Mudraya i „chelovechnaya“ skazka-pritcha, v kotoroy prosto i proniknovenno govoritsya o samom vazhnom: o druzhbe i lyubvi, o dolge i vernosti, o krasote i neterpimosti ..

This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass th ..

'This time the fiction is founded upon facts

Reissue.

A dazzling speculative novel of ‚counterfactual history‘ from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's „The Man in the High Castle“ includes an introduction by Eric Brown in „Penguin Modern Classics“. Philip K. ..

The latest titles to be added to the series of classic books at a budget price, both feature introductions and notes.

‚a book I prize next to the Bible‘ Robert Burns Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of fee ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „The Man Who Was Thursday“ by G. K. Chesterton. '„A man's brain is a bomb,“ he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, n ..

Kniha Manga Classics: Les Miserables (New Printing) autora Victor Hugo,Crystal S Chan vydaná v nakladatelství Manga Classics Inc. v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 340, ISBN-13: 9781947808966, zařazení do kategorie: Klasi

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-e ..