Penguin The Arabian Nights. Tales of 1,001 Nights. Volume 1

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights

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The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words • The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands ever, their music - odd, spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith IS The Fall - 66 members came and went over the years yet he remained its charismatic leader until his death in 2018

These folk tales tell the stories of four brave girls from four different countries around the world: Zanzibar, Japan, India and China. The girls all have to do dangerous and difficult things, so they must be strong and clever. Join them on their adventures!Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language • Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills

Between the age of two and five, a little girl nicknamed ‘the Piggle’ – seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister – visited Dr Winnicott on sixteen occasions. A verbatim account of her visits is accompanied by illuminating excerpts from letters written to the analyst by the child’s parents and an invaluable commentary by Dr Winnicott. This allows the reader to experience in detail the growth of a relationship between child and therapist and the gradual unfolding of the child’s inner world • This classic piece of writing gives the reader the rare opportunity of being admitted to the intimacy of the consulting room and of studying the child and therapist at work. Of special value to professionals working with children, it will also fascinate anyone interested in how psychoanalysis works in practice

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard' • Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations

"Ужасы и нелепости религии" - это подборка работ Шопенгауэра, представляющая собой увлекательное исследование этики, религии и психологии, содержит резкие нападки на природу и логику религии, а также эссе по этике, охватывающее все - от дебатов об американском рабстве до пороков буддизма • Книга на английском языке • A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism • Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary account of his travels. Here he describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals; recounts the history of Ireland's rulers; and tells fantastical stories of magic wells and deadly whirlpools, strange creatures and evil spirits. Written from the point of view of an invader and reformer, this work has been rightly criticized for its portrait of a primitive land, yet it is also one of the most important sources for what is known of Ireland during the Middle Ages

Дезидерио, служащий города, подвергшийся странной атаке реальности со стороны таинственных машин доктора Хоффмана, влюбился в Альбертину, дочь доктора. Но Альбертина, прекрасная женщина, сделанная из стекла, кажется, является ему только во сне. Встретив в своих приключениях множество каннибалов, кентавров и акробатов, Дезидерио должен бороться с нереальностью и искривлением времени и пространства, чтобы быть с ней, поскольку доктор превращает город Дезидерио в хаос чрезвычайного положения - охваченный безумием, преступностью и сексуальными излишествами • Сатирическая повесть о магии и сексе "Адские машины желаний доктора Хоффмана" Анджелы Картер - это ослепительный поиск истины, любви и индивидуальности • Книга на английском языке • Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter

Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for • Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things • And realises her life has been a lie • Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas • But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago

Кот Мурр - милое животное-самоучка, написавшее свою собственную автобиографию. Но ошибка печатника привела к тому, что его история была случайно смешана с книгой о композиторе Йоханнесе Крейслере. Поскольку две версии обрываются и чередуются в драматические моменты, из путаницы возникают два совершенно разных персонажа - Мурр, уверенный в себе ученый, любовник, кутила и скандалист, и угрюмый, ипохондрический гений Крейслер. В своем буйном и причудливом романе Гофман блестяще раскрывает фантастическое, смешное и возвышенное в будничной суете повседневной жизни, делая "Жизнь и мнения кота Мурра" одним из самых смешных и странных романов девятнадцатого века • Книга на английском языке • Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography

The Last Seance. Tales of the Supernatural – это сборник леденящих душу историй от Агаты Кристи, который станет прекрасным подарком для любителей всего сверхъестественного и жуткого. В самом начале своей писательской карьеры бесспорная королева криминала увлекалась сверхъестественным – рассказами о фантастических экстрасенсорных видениях, призраках, маячащих в тени, встречах с божествами, жутких потусторонних посланиях и даже о человеке, который вселяется в тело кошки… • В этом захватывающем сборнике собраны все самые жуткие рассказы Кристи. В ряде из них фигурируют Эркюль Пуаро и мисс Марпл. Рассказы отражают мистическую сторону творчества Агаты Кристи, на ту, которая нравилась ей самой • В сборник вошло 20 историй • «Последний сеанс» • «В сумраке зеркала» • «Проклятие египетской гробницы» • «SOS» • «Четвертый человек» • «Святилище Астарты» • «Цыганка» • «Коттедж “Соловей”» • «Сон» • «Лампа» • «Я приду за тобой, Мэри!» • «Тайна голубого кувшина» • «Голубая герань» • «Жена Кенита» • «Удивительное происшествие с сэром Артуром Кэрмайклом» • «Зов крыльев» • «Красный сигнал» • «Стадо Гериона» • «Кукла в примерочной» • «Гончая смерти» • Книга на английском языке