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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet se ..

Part of „Penguin's“ beautiful hardback „Clothbound Classics“ series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ..

„Me!“ cried Fanny…„Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.“ At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her ..

This title comes with an introduction by Amanda Vickery. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Ly ..

Thomas Manns Novelle aus dem Jahr 1929 über den Auftritt eines Hypnotiseurs in einem italienischen Badeort ist oft als Parabel auf die Verführbarkeit des Einzelnen und Manipulierbarkeit der Massen gedeutet worden, zugleich aber auch als prophetische ..

Kniha Marple: Twelve New Stories autora Agatha Christie,Naomi Alderman,Leigh Bardugo,Alyssa Cole,Lucy Foley,Elly Griffiths,Natalie Haynes,Jean Kwok,Val McDermid,Karen M. McManus vydaná v nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers v roce 2023, jazyk: Ang

The semiautobiographical „Martin Eden“ is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education an ..

‚It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.‘ Set in Manchester in the 1840s – a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation – Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the cit ..

Robin und Prudence Merriot sind seit frühester Kindheit gute Geheimniskrämer und Strategen – kein Nachteil in diesen unruhigen Zeiten. So fällt es ihnen auch nicht schwer, eine reiche Erbin aus den Händen ihres Entführers zu befreien. Doch die hierfü ..

The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and ..

The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove The Master and Margarita.

The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices – including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat – he immediately begins to create havoc. Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain w ..

Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere. Bulgakov's carnivalesque satire of So ..

Unglaubliche Dinge geschehen im Moskau der dreißiger Jahre. Berlioz, der Vorsitzende einer Literaturgesellschaft, und Besdomny, ein junger Lyriker, diskutieren an einem Frühlingsabend über die Nichtexistenz Christi. In ihr Gespräch mischt sich ein Fr ..

„Мастер и Маргарита“ — бессмертное произведение Михаила Булгакова, главный роман его жизни, так до конца и не понятый, загадочный и манящий. Опубликованный в середине 1960-х годов, роман поразил читателей необычностью замысла, красочностью и фантасти ..

Mathilda is narrated from the title character's death bed. She recounts her relationship with her father, who had an incestuous love for her, and his suicide by drowning. Her relationship with a gifted young poet was unable to prevent her emotional w ..

A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so widely and raucously denounced for its perceived lice

‚He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.‘ The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The ..

Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily.

Vollst ndiger, digital restaurierter Reprint (in Handarbeit hergestellte Faksimile) der Originalausgabe von 1906 (53. Auflage) mit exzellenter Aufl sung und hervorragender Lesbarkeit. Mit 94 Illustrationen von Wilhelm Busch im Farbdruck.

A haunting study of guilt and lost love in „Penguin Classics“, Thomas Hardy's „The Mayor of Casterbridge“ is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five ..

The twelve books of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. With introduction and glossary.

Kniha Meditations vydaná v nakladatelství Sterling Juvenile v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 192, ISBN-13: 9781435172388, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

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