Penguin The Awkward Age Джеймс Генри

The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when James was recovering from the shock od failure as a playwright, The Awkward Age is one of his greatest masterpieces. Conceived like a play terms of scenes and conducted largely through witty dialogue, the novel bears the triumphant signs of his painful apprenticeship in the theatre

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when the Princess Casamassima - beautiful, clever and bored - takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. He is horrified by the destruction that would be wreaked by revolution, but still believes he must honour his vow, and finds himself gripped in an agonizing and, ultimately, fatal dilemma. A compelling blend of psychological observation, wit and compassion, The Princess Casamassima (1886) is one of Henry James's most deeply personal novels

Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics • Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work both continues and challenges his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience

Джеймс Паттерсон совместно с Джеймсом О. Борном представляют захватывающий детектив "Русский" • Приближается день свадьбы Майкла Беннетта, и убийца должен выполнить свою собственную клятву в тринадцатом триллере с участием лучшего детектива полиции Нью-Йорка • За несколько недель до того, как детектив полиции Нью-Йорка Майкл Беннетт женится на своей давней возлюбленной Мэри Кэтрин, наемный убийца объявляет о своем присутствии в городе чередой убийств • Работая бок о бок с ФБР, Беннетт раскрывает множество нераскрытых убийств по всей стране, которые соответствуют одной и той же характерной схеме • Он обещает Мэри Кэтрин, что это дело не повлияет на их предстоящую свадьбу, но, пока он пытается связать убийства, Беннетт, возможно, попадает в смертельную ловушку

Originally published in 1823, The Pioneers is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village ofCooper's youth becomes the scene in which a nation's destiny is forged. The novel also marks the invention of his enduring contribution to world literature: Natty Bumpo, the Leatherstocking

Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe - mother and daughter, both champion riders - vowed to never, ever, compete against one another • But a dramatic turn of events ahead of the Paris Olympics changes everything • Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best in the world. Only one rider can fulfil that dream and make history

Когда застенчивая Мэгги Вервер выходит замуж за итальянского принца, а ее овдовевший отец становится мужем бывшей любовницы принца, начинается сложная и причудливая битва между двумя женами. Блистательная Шарлотта Стант полна решимости вернуть своего возлюбленного; Мэгги - спасти оба брака и оградить своего отца от любых слухов о супружеской измене. Роман Джеймса "Золотая чаша" - это одновременно виртуозное повествование и непревзойденная психологическая драма • Книга на английском языке • When the shy Maggie Verver marries an Italian Prince and her widowed father becomes the husband of the Prince's former mistress, the stage is set for a complex and bizarre battle between two wives. The brilliant Charlotte Stant is determined to take back her lover; Maggie, to save both marriages and to protect her father from any knowledge of the adulterous liaison

"Поворот винта" - классическая история о привидениях, за которую Джеймса больше всего помнят. Действие происходит в загородном доме, и это леденящая душу история о сверхъестественном, рассказанная мастером жанра • "Бумаги Асперна" - это рассказ об американцах в Европе, тема, в которой Генри Джеймс наиболее уверен и совершенен. Автор умело воссоздает драму "Человеческой комедии" в декорациях венецианского дворца • Книга на английском языке • The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre • The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace

What does it take to be a family? • Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It’s perfect but for two things: their children • Julia’s beloved daughter Gwen loathes James and James’s son Nathan takes pleasure in antagonising his new stepsister. Uniting two households is never easy, but the teenagers’ unexpected actions will eventually threaten everyone’s hard-won happiness

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve • When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species

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