Penguin Confessions of a Mask Mishima Yukio

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith • Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity, a young lieutenant who ends his life

A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy • At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. He remembers everything, from his unhappy childhood in the kitchens of the Castle of Fratta to revolutionary fighting in Naples and romantic entanglements during the siege of Genoa. Throughout, Carlo lives only for his twin passions in life: his dream of a unified, free Italy and his undying love for the magnificent but inconstant Pisana. Peopled by a host of unforgettable characters - including drunken smugglers, saintly nuns, scheming priests, Napoleon and Lord Byron - this is an epic historical novel that tells the remarkable and inseparable stories of one man's life and the history of Italy's unification

Японские рыбаки издревле почитают бога морей и просят его лишь о том, чтобы море было спокойным, а корабли возвращались домой • Однако юноша-моряк, даже страшась небесной кары за своеволие, молил о том, чтобы ему повстречалась красивая девушка хорошего нрава. И судьба улыбнулась ему • То, что произошло с героями потом, было сродни порыву ветра - неожиданному и неподвластному их воле • "Шум прибоя" - маленький шедевр Юкио Мисимы, самого знаменитого японского писателя XX века • Книга на английском языке • A classic, elegant romance set in a Japanese fishing village • 'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York Times • Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love • It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village

James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma. The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Karl Miller • Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned. Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality, he embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend Gil-Martin, a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for Robert, and who explains that they are as one in the holy work of purifying the world

'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?' • 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth • For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed • But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved? • A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian London

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

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"Прекрасная звезда" - это повесть 1962 года о семье, любви, ядерной войне и НЛО, которую Юкио Мисима считал одной из своих лучших книг • Впервые переведенная на английский язык, эта атмосферная черная комедия рассказывает историю семьи Осуги, которые внезапно осознают, что каждый из них родом с другой планеты: отец с Марса, мать с Юпитера, сын с Меркурия и дочь с Венеры. Это внеземное знание сближает их и убеждает в том, что у них есть миссия: найти себе подобных и спасти человечество от неминуемой угрозы атомной бомбы • Книга на английском языке • Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books • Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus

One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks • The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today

This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend's hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige

"Признания Адриана Моула" - роман английской писательницы Сью Таунсенд • Адриан Моул - взрослый человек. По крайней мере, так написано в его паспорте. Но жизнь дома, прижимание к своему потертому плюшевому кролику "Пинки", работа разносчиком бумаг в "Лани" и тоска по любви всей его жизни, Пандоре, доказали ему, что взрослая жизнь - это не совсем то, чего он ожидал. И все же, не имея трудностей современной жизни, о чем тогда мог бы писать поэт-интеллектуал… • Книга на английском языке • Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected

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