Lena has her life mapped out. While her sister obsesses about fortune-telling gypsies and marriage, Lena studies the way the heart works. She isn’t going to let being a girl stop her from bec...
Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being bu...
'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 ...
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 ...
«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...
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...
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...
With its high-interest adaptations of classic literature and plays, this series inspires reading success and further exploration for all students.These classics are skillfully adapted into concise,...
«Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There» is a continuation of Lewis Carroll's tale (1832—1898) about the incredible adventures of the girl Alice. In an amazing ches...
CZYTASZ ADAPTACJĘ WCIĄGAJĄCEJ POWIEŚCI JANE AUSTEN I UCZYSZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO Elizabeth Bennet to młoda dziewczyna, która z zaciekawieniem obserwuje świat i ludzi wokół siebie. Na po...
CZYTAJ MROCZNĄ POWIEŚĆ W ORYGINALE I UCZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO! Młody prawnik Jonathan Harker wyrusza do zamku ekscentrycznego hrabiego Draculi. Niedługo po przybyciu zdaje sobie sprawę, że stał się wi...
Gdy Serena zaczyna pracę jako stewardessa, jej związek z Gregiem zostaje wystawiony na próbę. Kiedy pewnego dnia lot powrotny z Pragi do Londynu zostaje odwołany, znużona wyrzutami Grega Ser...