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Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody is edited with an introduction and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics • Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing character of Pooter, the Grossmith brothers created a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle-class suburbia - one which sends up the late Victorian crazes for Aestheticism, spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody

A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement, Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from with an introduction by Michael Hulse • Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte. Although he realises that she is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. The first great 'confessional' novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem

Нелегко быть провинциальной леди в Девоншире в 1920-х годах, жонглирующей сварливым мужем, непослушными детьми и множеством домашних дилемм - от плесени на рисе до раздражительного повара. Но эта провинциальная леди не будет побеждена ни своенравными цветочными луковицами, ни неожиданными гостями в доме, ни даже блицем. Она продолжит руководить W.I., устраивать семейные пикники под дождем и преуспеет в качестве публикуемого автора, все это время ухаживая за своей клубникой • "Дневник провинциальной леди" Э.М. Делафилд - это блестяще написанный комический роман, такой же забавный и свежий сегодня, как и тогда, когда он был впервые написан • Книга на английском языке • 'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better

Глубоко трогательный и незабываемый портрет обычной и в то же время экстраординарной девушки-подростка • Опубликованный более шестидесяти лет назад, дневник Анны Франк охватил миллионы молодых людей по всему миру • В июле 1942, тринадцатилетняя Анна Франк и ее семья скрываются от оккупации и вынуждены прятаться в гараже в Амстердаме. Более двух лет Анна ярко описывает в дневнике тяготы жизни в столь небольшом пространстве, ее мысли, чувства и стремления по ходу взросления. Ее дневник резко заканчивается в августе 1944, когда их всех предали • После публикации в 1947, Дневник Анны Франк был прочитан миллионами людей, а теперь переиздан с переработанными предисловием, послесловием, хронологией и глоссарием • 'In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart

«Незнакомка из Уайлдфелл-Холла» — эпистолярный роман английской писательницы и поэтессы Энн Бронте, изданный в 1848 году • В этой сенсационной, нелицеприятной и страстной истории о супружеской жестокости арендатор Уайлдфелл-Холла видит таинственную арендаторшу Хелен Грэм, разоблаченную не как "порочную женщину", как утверждают местные сплетники, а как жену жестокого хулигана-алкоголика, отчаянно пытающуюся защитить своего сына • Используя свой собственный опыт общения со своим братом Брэнуэллом, чтобы изобразить жестокость и разврат, от которых бежит Хелен, Энн Бронте написала свой шедевр, отражающий хрупкое положение женщин в обществе и ее веру во всеобщее искупление • Книга на английском языке • One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' • The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte • 'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it' • In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman • Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist

The Forest House tells of an era of upheaval and change. The Roman grip on their empire was slackening; the Druidic Order - far stronger that the tiny Christian sect - was itself in turmoil. Caught in the centre of the conflict is a young British girl of druidic family, chosen to be a priestess, and a roman tribune, ambitious for power but - as the son of a British mother - torn between two cultures. This is a dramatic, illuminating tale of rebellion and religion

The Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James • 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her' • When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence, or a manifestation of something else entirely?

The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, political intrigues, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion and karma determines the shape of our lives

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society • Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence • Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells • 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' • In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War