'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism...
'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the...
'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech,...
The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness"Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80...
After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.Int...
'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 ...
A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from the great Victoria...
'Oh, good God,' he kept saying with great relish. 'Good God...''Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-ce...
In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve ...
Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.How do we build enduring and honest relationships?How can we discover strength and community inside our differences?What ...
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror and the author of what is considered the first modern detective story. This anthology gathers more than 20 of Poe’s groundbrea...
A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its ...
Leonardo in Detail is also available in a compact portable edition!Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realm...
«The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» is a novel by Mark Twain (1835—1910). The story describes the adventures of a boy named Tom Sawyer from the town of St. Petersburg (reminiscent of t...
Visual biographies of the world’s greatest designersThis visual book walks you through the stories of the world's greatest designers, across the decades. Explore each legend's lif...
La bella Ana Ozores está casada con don Víctor Quintanar, el regente de una ciudad llamada Vetusta, donde ella se siente ahogada por el ambiente que la rodea. En esta situación...
The idea behind the board book collection was to attract even the youngest readers (from as young as 21/2 years old); to encourage them to discover subjects and areas that interest them (nature, an...
I believe that every reader will have the opportunity to find the salt of their passion in this volume, what triggered this curiosity for the first time, this interest, this emotion and that which ...
Does happiness have a colour and how does it taste?Why is waiting for someone not the same as missing someone?Can curiosity cause rumbling in your head?How bad c...
Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania on business. At the beginning of the journey, he cannot imagine what trouble he’s got himself into. Dracula proves to be pu...