Resultaten voor "Penguin Modern Classics"

A Small Circus

Hans Fallada

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin ) It is summer, 1929... Lees meer

The Moon and the Bonfires

Cesare Pavese

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book Review A new translation by Tim Parks Twenty years after making his fortune in... Lees meer

A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. At first, the c... Lees meer

The Penguin Book of Oulipo

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'A... Lees meer

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Jan Karski

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than ... Lees meer

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-speciali... Lees meer

Undertones of War

Edmund Blunden

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an i... Lees meer

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him t... Lees meer

The Housing Lark

Sam Selvon

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of Books Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money... Lees meer

Just Above My Head

James Baldwin

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• This is the ficional story of the great gospel singer Arthur Montana. Arthur was found dead in the basement of a London pub at the age of thirty-nine,... Lees meer

Haunted by Harvard

Ved Mehta

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics | Continents of Exile
• Book 8 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century au... Lees meer

Condensed Milk

Varlam Shalamov

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Narrated in the first person, this short story is one episode in the life of a Russian labour-camp inmate. Written by Varlam Shalamov after his own ex... Lees meer

Charity

Len Deighton

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL 'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best' Mail on Sunday With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernar... Lees meer

The Luzhin Defense

Vladimir Nabokov

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigiou... Lees meer

Tactical Exercise & Other Late Stories

Evelyn Waugh

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Composed between 1939-62, the late stories of Evelyn Waugh are in turn blackly comic and bitingly satirical. In 'The Sympathetic Passenger' a radio-lo... Lees meer

Collected Stories

Wallace Stegner

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'This is the age for the short story. None will be better or more worthy of admiration than Wallace Stegner's Collected Stories ' Washington Post Book... Lees meer

The Scent of Dried Roses

Tim Lott

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this ex... Lees meer

Shadows on the Grass

Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa , which she published under the name of Karen ... Lees meer

Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian The final volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy , the searing portrait of a woman'... Lees meer

The Krull House

Georges Simenon

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 'Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic' John Banville, Guardian ' It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't for... Lees meer

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursue... Lees meer

Arrow of God

Chinua Achebe

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly un... Lees meer

On the Road: The Original Scroll

Jack Kerouac

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road , published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it. On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's year... Lees meer

Journey into Fear

Eric Ambler

• E-book | Engels | Penguin 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 ... Lees meer