Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains th...
This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.
The acclaimed author of "How Sweet It Is" returns with another richly emotional, small-town novel in the bestselling tradition of Susan Wiggs and Susan Mallery. Original.
Drunkard, malingerer, oaf and possible genius - the story of Czech soldier Svejk and his misadventures in the First World War is one of the most hilarious and subversive satires on war ever written.
This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juveni...
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the ...
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? ...
Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her...
High up on the mountainside, the Great Stone Face looks down at the people who live in the valley.Some day, the story runs, a great man will come to the valley and his face will look just lik...
Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town w...
This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being...
High up on the mountainside, the Great Stone Face looks down at the people who live in the valley.Some day, the story runs, a great man will come to the valley and his face will look just lik...
Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up.Alex Cross is in charge of all three investigations and has never been under more pressure. But with a cris...
A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in...
Robert Bly, urodzony w 1926 r. w Madison w Minnesocie w rodzinie o norweskich korzeniach, jest jednym z ważnych poetów amerykańskich. Tworzy lirykę krajobrazów rodzinnej Minnesoty i w...
"War and Peace" is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his gr...
Fascynująca nowa seria zarówno klasycznych jak i współczesnych opowieści, które z pewnością przyciągną uwagę czytelników.Cechy serii: poziom starann...
"War and Peace" is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his gr...