Penguin Living to Tell the Tale Marquez Gabriel Garcia

A fun first guide to how to tell the time, this bright and bold lift-the-flap activity book features a clock with moveable hands! Telling the time is a key topic for early learners. This charming and colourful book helps kids understand the basics of telling the time • Fully interactive, the book features lift-the-flap puzzles that help kids to relate telling the time to everyday life - posing questions such as "It's 8.15 - is it time for breakfast?", "Does it take 2 minutes to brush your teeth?" • How to Tell the Time introduces kids to how we measure time using seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. It gets kids learning to tell and write the time to the nearest five minutes. There is a flap attached to the front jacket that opens to reveal an amazing clock with moveable hands

Die Neuübersetzung von Gabriel García Márquez' wichtigstem Roman »Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit« - erstmals im Taschenbuch • Gabriel García Márquez' bedeutendster Roman und einer der schönsten der Weltliteratur: Bildhaft und anekdotenreich erzählt der Literaturnobelpreisträger García Márquez die hundertjährige Familiengeschichte der Buendías - eine Geschichte von Siegen und Niederlagen, hochmütigem Stolz und blinder Zerstörungswut, unbändiger Vitalität und ihrem endgültigem Untergang. Die ganze Tragödie Lateinamerikas spiegelt sich in der phantastischen Welt von Macondo • Die Neuübersetzung von Dagmar Ploetz lässt den stilistischen Reichtum des Originals aufleuchten und bietet eine wunderbare Gelegenheit, diesen Jahrhundertroman neu zu entdecken • »Ein Klassiker in bestechender Neuübersetzung

Das Jahrhundertbuch in einer meisterhaften Neuübersetzung • Mit seinem Roman »Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit«, der sich weltweit mehr als 30 Millionen Mal verkaufte, gelang Gabriel García Márquez 1967 der Durchbruch als Schriftsteller. Die Familiensaga um das kolumbianische Dorf Macondo gehört inzwischen zu den modernen Klassikern der Weltliteratur. Zum Jubiläum erscheint der Roman jetzt in einer kongenialen Neuübersetzung von Dagmar Ploetz • »Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit« erzählt die Geschichte vom Aufstieg und Niedergang der Familie Buendía und des von ihr gegründeten Dorfes Macondo, das zunächst wie das Paradies erscheint. Abgeschnitten vom Rest der Welt durch Sümpfe, Urwald und eine undurchdringliche Sierra, ist es der Ort, an dem sich alle Träume, Alpträume und Entdeckungen des Menschen noch einmal zu wiederholen scheinen

Die schönste Liebesgeschichte der Welt und einer der bedeutendsten Romane des kolumbianischen Literaturnobelpreisträgers Gabriel García Márquez • 51 Jahre, 9 Monate und 4 Tage wartet Florentino Ariza auf Fermina Daza. Schon als Achtzehnjähriger hat er sich unsterblich in sie verliebt, in ihren stolzen Gang und den schweren Zopf auf ihrem Rücken. In poetischen Briefen hat er um sie geworben, für kurze Zeit ihre Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen, und sie dann doch an Doktor Juvenal Urbino verloren. Aber nie hat er aufgehört, sie zu lieben

Nichts auf dieser Welt ist schwieriger als die Liebe • Das erleben und erleiden Fermina Daza und Doktor Juvenal Urbino tagtäglich in ihrer mehr als fünfzigjährigen Ehe. Und keiner erfährt das schmerzlicher als Florentino Ariza, Fermina Dazas Verehrer, der 51 Jahre, 9 Monate und 4 Tage auf sie wartet. Schwärmerisch hat der Telegrammbote Florentino Ariza in poetischen Briefen um sie geworben, hat in aller Keuschheit ihr Herz gewonnen und wieder verloren, aber niemals aufgehört, sie zu lieben.An der Seite ihres Mannes, eines hochgeachteten Arztes, führt Fermina Daza nun ein großbürgerliches Leben. Florentino Ariza, der aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen stammt, wird ein gesellschaftlich anerkannter Mann und ein erfolgreicher, nimmermüder Schürzenjäger. Im Herzen jedoch ist er Fermina Daza immer treu geblieben, und noch am Abend der Beerdigung ihres Mannes erklärt er ihr erneut seine Liebe

The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and death at the Imperial Court. At the core of this epic is Prince Genji, the son of an emperor, whose passionate character, love affairs and shifting political fortunes, offer an equisite glimpse of the golden age of Japan. Royal Tyler's superb new translation is scrupulously true to the Japanese original but appeals immeadiately to the modern reader. This edition also includes notes, glossaries, character lists and a chronology to enable the reader to appreciate the richness of this classic of world literature

The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero's quest to create his own character, his own language, life, and art. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's original wishes

The residents of Churchwood have never needed their bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at the worst possible time, can Alice, Kate and Naomi pull together to keep spirits high? • Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult, but now she is struggling more than ever to find time for the things that matter to her - particularly helping to save the village bookshop and seeing handsome pilot Leo Kinsella. Can two Land Girls help? Or will they be more trouble than they're worth? • Naomi has found new friends and purpose through the bookshop and is devastated when its future is threatened. But when she begins to suspect her husband of being unfaithful, she finds her attention divided. With old insecurities rearing up, she needs to uncover the truth

The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age • Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteenth century convinced themselves that an Earthly Paradise existed in the Caribbean. This is the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic - taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves - to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world

The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It's a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family • Emotional displays - unacceptable • Unruly behaviour - definitely not welcome • Fun - no thanks • This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham's kingdom. A beautifully displayed, impeccably edited fortress of restraint • So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn't read the rule book • Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying . . . yes?

The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades • 'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...' • Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of these epochal events. In this second volume of his trilogy Runciman tells the story of the foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the disastrous, bloody Second Crusade and the inexorable rise of the crusaders' nemesis, Saladin

Settle down with the stunning wartime story of a family trying to survive, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The New Mrs Clifton • When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her husband of twenty-five years - collaborates with the enemy to save his family home • Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, her life in the hands of London's code breakers, Kay's betrayal of her husband is complete as she risks her home and children to protect an SOE agent who won't even tell her his name • As her family - especially her headstrong daughter - is drawn further into danger, Kay is faced with a wrenching moral dilemma • Who will be sacrificed next for the cause? • Can she and Bror ever find their way back to one another? • I Can't Begin to Tell You is a beautiful story of bravery, broken loyalties, lies and how the power of love can bring redemption even to the darkest of places