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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

• Paperback | Engels
• A landmark collection of stories-nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri A... Lees meer

The Plague

Albert Camus

• Paperback | Engels
• 'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the gr... Lees meer

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Rubin Ed

• Paperback | Engels
• A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami A Penguin Clas... Lees meer

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf

• Paperback | Engels
• 'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual vil... Lees meer

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Peter Abelard, Héloïse

• Paperback | Engels
• Through the letters between Abelard and Heloise, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Helo... Lees meer

Ornament and Crime

Adolf Loos

• Paperback | Engels
• Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pione... Lees meer

Selected Short Stories

Virginia Woolf

• Paperback | Engels
• 'Woolf is modern ... With Joyce and Eliot she has shaped a literary century' Jeanette Winterson Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in the... Lees meer

The waves

Virginia Woolf

• Paperback | Engels
• 'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York Times Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The W... Lees meer

The years

Virginia Woolf

• Paperback | Engels
• 'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary Supplement The Years is the... Lees meer

Parade's End

Ford Madox Ford

• Paperback | Engels
• Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Juli... Lees meer

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

• Paperback | Engels
• Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled... Lees meer

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

• Paperback | Engels
• 'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins l... Lees meer

The Penguin Book of Hell

Scott G Bruce

• Paperback | Engels
• From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares. -- The New York Times Book Review Three tho... Lees meer

Good Morning, Midnight

Jean Rhys

• Paperback | Engels
• Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set... Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel room... Lees meer

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

Henry James

• Paperback | Engels
• A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, including The Turn of the Screw, the basis for the new Netflix series ... Lees meer

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley

• Paperback | Engels
• For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Go... Lees meer

Othello

William Shakespeare, Kenneth Muir

• Paperback | Engels
• 'If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare' William Hazlitt A soldier of great standing and a newly married man, Othello... Lees meer

Herzog

Saul Bellow

• Paperback | Engels
• Herzog is alone now that Medeleine has left him. Locked for days in the custody of his rambling memories, Herzog scrawls frantic letters which he neve... Lees meer

Dracula

Bram Stoker

• Paperback | Engels
• Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula pur... Lees meer

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

• Paperback | Engels
• Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and langua... Lees meer

Another Country

James Baldwin

• Paperback | Engels
• 'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a litera... Lees meer

The portrait of a lady

Henry James

• Hardcover | Engels
• Henry James's great masterpiece, now in a stunning Penguin clothbound edition designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith. When Isabel Archer, a ... Lees meer

The beguiled

Thomas Cullinan

• Paperback | Engels
• A classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense - now the basis for Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated new film (winner o... Lees meer

Giovanni's room

James Baldwin

• Boek | Engels
• David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian ba... Lees meer