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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. ..

This brilliantly coloured tale of the French Revolution is an historical romance set in Paris and London. Famous for the character of Sidney Carton who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine' it is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done ' ..

Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics ‚The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer‘ The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, ric

Presented in a brand new translation, this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales will enchant readers for their raw beauty and constant ability to surprise and excite.Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, ..

In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her p ..

„The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“ sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, ..

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for these tales by the master prose writer.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.’Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare’s The Tempest begins wit ..

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‚tenant‘ of the title, and her diss ..

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of ..

Kniha Tenant of Wildfell Hall vydaná v nakladatelství Chiltern Publishing v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781912714933, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the ..

Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, „Tender is the Night“ is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe durinthe ‚Roaring Twenties‘. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver – her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage, an ..

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.It tells of Tess ..

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's „Tess of the D'Urbervilles“ is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in „Penguin Classics“. When Tess Du ..

‚She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: „Tess- say it is not true! No, it is not true!“‘ Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“ by Mark Twain. ‚I'm unfavorable to killin‘ a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great Ame ..

Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which bega ..

On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn.Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret and run away to be pirates and search for hidden treasure. But when ..