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This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love whic ..

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret, „The Mill on the Floss“ is edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. Byatt, author of „Possession“, in "Penguin Classic ..

Agatha Christie's audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories…

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.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg, and finds himself aboard the Pequod, which is captained by the obsessive Capt ..

Herman Meville's profound and timeless inquiry into one man's obsession, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that ‚reaped‘ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab' ..

The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous monomania, they sail in pursuit of the monster.

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of popular classics, this edition is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated, features an insightful foreword by Jay Parini and includes pictures and a comprehensive section on Melville's life and works.

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Kniha Moby Dick autora Herman Melville vydaná v nakladatelství Book Sales Inc v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 504, ISBN-13: 9780785839781, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Kniha Moby Dick autora Herman Melville vydaná v nakladatelství Wordsworth Editions v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 608, ISBN-13: 9781840228304, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Kniha MOBY DICK autora MELVILLE,HERMAN vydaná v nakladatelství EDIMAT LIBROS v roce 2018, jazyk: Španělština, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 496, ISBN-13: 9788497944335, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the world and to live off her wit and beauty. Her desire to climb the rungs of society leads her through a tangled web of incest,

Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate rede ..

A tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman

One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is o ..

The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‚little grey cells‘. Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and mo ..

Éraste et Julie s’aiment mais Oronte, le père de la jeune femme, veut la marier à Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, un gentilhomme de Limoges.Avec l’aide de comparses aussi rusés que malhonnêtes, l’amoureux conçoit alors bon nombre de ruses ..

In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave. ..

The extraordinary objectivist science fiction classic by Robert A. Heinlein

An elegant gift edition of one of the very first detective stories ever written, introduced by historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders.

A fabulous yellow diamond disappears, the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted.