Jenny Grey przyjaźniła się ze swoim przybranym bratem Emmanuelem Silverą i była w nim zakochana. Ich drogi się rozeszły, lecz gdy po latach Jenny przyjechała na zaręczyny Emmanuela z inną kobietą, ...
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Książę Corso da Vignola chce zorganizować wystawę królewskiej biżuterii i pokazać ją w największych metropoliach na świecie. Bardzo by mu w tym pomogła Rosie Forrester, Angielka, któr...
Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poetsIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Peng...
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.My love for him felt so total and so annihilatin...
This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator’s early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt...
'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them'Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never go...
'Nothing more lonely -'A selection of Basho's most magical haikuIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the ...
Includes pictures and an extra material section on Stevenson's life and worksOne of Stevenson s most famous and enduringly popular works, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" descr...
In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual plea...
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of th...
Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the iden...
The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteen...
Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the mother of the title – and her son Pavel, Gorky’s masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Rus...
An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his wife Tatyana, who intends to emigrate to the West with their daughter ...
One morning, Pom Pom wakes up, and he is VERY grumpy. He does not play with his friends, because he is too grumpy!Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popul...
Grecki biznesmen Atlas Chariton wychodzi z więzienia, gdzie spędził dziesięć lat za morderstwo, którego nie popełnił. Przez ten czas ułożył plan, jak odegrać się na rodzinie Worthów, ...
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 ...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morl...
Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in ...