MODERN CLASSICS

- 34 %

Golden Age

Autor: Wang Xiaobo

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls ...

Książka (miękka)

33,54 zł 51,00 zł

Decline and Fall

Autor: Evelyn Waugh

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, with an introduction by Barbara CookeSent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qual...

Książka (miękka)

41,98 zł 51,00 zł

- 34 %

Beware of Pity

Autor: Stefan Zweig

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have ...

Książka (miękka)

34,50 zł 52,00 zł

Six Stories

Autor: Stefan Zweig

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

‘One of the masters of the short story’ GuardianThese six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals cau...

Książka (miękka)

48,98 zł 52,00 zł

Siblings

Autor: Brigitte Reimann

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.For Elisabeth - a y...

Książka (miękka)

42,88 zł 52,00 zł

Ways of Sunlight

Autor: Sam Selvon

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

With equal humour, sorrow and joy, the master storyteller brings together two worlds and turns his pen to life in Trinidad and London. Sharing tales of gossip and rivalry between village washerwome...

Książka (miękka)

42,88 zł 52,00 zł

- 14 %

Great Italian Stories

10 Parallel Texts

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in...

Książka (miękka)

50,79 zł 59,00 zł

- 27 %

Great Spanish Stories

10 Parallel Texts

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in...

Książka (miękka)

42,98 zł 59,00 zł

- 37 %

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first ...

Książka (miękka)

43,15 zł 69,00 zł

- 13 %

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, c...

Książka (miękka)

51,20 zł 59,00 zł

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story

From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

Autor: Philip Hensher

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnifi...

Książka (miękka)

62,30 zł 67,00 zł

- 47 %

The Apple in the Dark

Autor: Clarice Lispector

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that ...

Książka (miękka)

38,27 zł 72,29 zł

The Aleph

Autor: Borges Jorge Luis

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: drea...

Książka (miękka)

40,38 zł 49,00 zł

SS-GB

Autor: Len Deighton

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and ...

Książka (miękka)

34,00 zł 52,00 zł

The Night of the Hunter

Autor: Davis Grubb

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the fero...

Książka (miękka)

34,00 zł 52,00 zł

- 43 %

Call for the Dead

Autor: le Carré John

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his...

Książka (miękka)

29,89 zł 52,00 zł

- 13 %

Beast in the Shadows

Autor: Edogawa Rampo

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the onl...

Książka (miękka)

45,50 zł 52,00 zł

Journey into Fear

Autor: Eric Ambler

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots ...

Książka (miękka)

34,00 zł 52,00 zł

The Franchise Affair

Autor: Josephine Tey

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and a...

Książka (miękka)

34,00 zł 52,00 zł