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'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' • Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies • One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists

Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully, in spite of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns, that ridiculous green hat! • In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed from audiotapes recorded in and around his legendary art studio, it begins with the actor Ondine popping pills, then follows a cast of thinly-disguised superstars, musicians and prima donnas as they run riot through Manhattan. A knowing response to James Joyce's Ulysses, using the freewheeling, spontaneous techniques as Warhol's visual art, this filthy, funny book is a uniquely creative insight into Factory life

A work of horror genius from the Godfather of zombie film-making, George A. Romero, and celebrated writer Daniel Kraus • It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won't stay dead • It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family • On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death • At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him • In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture • God’s Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40

«Я не прошу тебя всегда так меня любить, но прошу помнить этот миг. Где-то в глубине меня всегда будет жить та девушка, которая стоит сейчас перед тобой» • Американский психоаналитик Дик Дайвер и его жена Николь живут на вилле на Лазурном берегу Франции, в окружении обеспеченных друзей. Когда среди этих друзей появляется прекрасная кинозвезда Розмари Хойт, она сразу сходится с замужней парой. Дик предвкушает новый роман, а Николь кажется, что она обрела новую лучшую подругу. Но в самом сердце их брака лежит тёмный секрет, который может разрушить их жизни • В серию «The Penguin English Library» издательства Penguin входят классические англоязычные произведения, написанные с середины XIX века до конца Второй мировой войны • Издание романа «Ночь нежна» выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, классика из «ревущих двадцатых», входящая в серию «Penguin English Library» издательства Penguin, станет отличным подарком для любителей творчества автора

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series • 'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private . . . It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away' • A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals • This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder

Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude's neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white • One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone else's. She is becoming Jude

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement • Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Naess' philosophical writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature • Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world

It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?

A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp. (Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Elizabeth Is Missing will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core... (Emma Donoghue, author of Room). Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett. (Daily Telegraph). One of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down. (Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club). Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting. (Observer). If you're after a read you can't put down, then look no further. (New!). Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey: meet Maud... Maud is forgetful

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body • A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions