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The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range • 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' • Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel • The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. For us now, as much as for Theroux then, to visit the lands of The Great Railway Bazaar is an encounter with all that is truly foreign and exotic - and with what we have since lost

A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film • 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' • Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for

Smith's The Wealth of Nations was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his famous prophecy that "America will be one of the foremost nations of the world"

Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don't get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends' social lives, skipping parties to play online chess under a pseudonym with strangers around the world. There, she isn't just 'the girl with crutches' • Ronan is the new kid: good looking, smart, a bad boy plagued by guilt over what happened to his brother Ciaran. Chesslife is his escape • Juliet thinks Ronan thinks someone like Ronan could never be interested in someone like her - and she wouldn't want him to be anyway - he always acts like he's cooler than everyone else • Little do they know they've already discovered each other online, and have more in common than they think

Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture • It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million books; that Doctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central character in the longest-running film series in history; that The Lord of the Rings is the second best-selling novel ever written (behind only A Tale of Two Cities); that the Beatles are still the best-selling musical group of all time; and that only Shakespeare and the Bible have sold more books than Agatha Christie. To put it simply, no country on earth, relative to its size, has contributed more to the modern imagination

'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' • Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for • As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing and tragic consequences

'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's' • Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are

Все хотят познакомиться с Джеем Гэтсби. Он красавчик и богач. У него большой дом, где гремят буйные вечеринки. Но если забыть про музыку и танцы, хоть кто-нибудь знает, кто такой Джей Гэтсби на самом деле? Это история о любви, секретах и деньгах • Серия Penguin Readers предоставляет читателям, изучающим английский язык, возможность ознакомиться с произведениями классиков и современными бестселлерами • Произведение адаптировано для изучающих английский язык на начальном уровне (A2/Intermediate). Сюжет подан в предложениях, включающих до трёх придаточных, с использованием first conditional, времён past continuous и present perfect simple. Текст сопровождён иллюстрациями • Роман выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби», литературная жемчужина эпохи джаза, станет великолепным подарком поклонникам творчества автора

Кажется, весь свет собрался на вечеринке у Джея Гэтсби. Но сам он сторонится толпы, не покидая своих тоскливых комнат. Его гости за бокалами шампанского судачат о том, кто же на самом деле их таинственный хозяин. Одни говорят, что он контрабандист. Другие клянутся, что он был немецким шпионом во время войны. Третьи шепчут, что однажды он убил человека. Но откуда на самом деле взялся мистер Гэтсби, и какова его истинная страсть? • Это подарочное издание романа «Великий Гэтсби» из серии «Vintage Classics» представляет собой уникальную коллаборацию между издательством Penguin и производителем престижных ювелирных изделий Tiffany & Co. Оформление издания основано на архивных записях ювелирного бренда из 1920-х, когда талант, красота и яркий образ жизни Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда сделали его одним из самых известных авторов эпохи джаза

Джей Гэтсби - человек, у которого есть все. Всех, кто хоть что-то собой представляет, можно увидеть на его блестящих вечеринках. День и ночь в его особняке на Лонг-Айленде шумит яркая молодежь, которая пьет, танцует и обсуждает его загадочный характер. Ибо Гэтсби - молодой, красивый, сказочно богатый - всегда кажется одиноким в толпе, наблюдающим и ждущим, хотя никто не знает чего. Под мерцающей поверхностью своей жизни он скрывает тайну: молчаливую тоску по единственной вещи, которая всегда будет вне его досягаемости. И вскоре эта разрушительная одержимость заставит его мир развалиться • Книга на английском языке • These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death • Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties

Джей Гэтсби - человек, у которого есть все. Но одна вещь всегда будет вне его досягаемости... Всех, кто хоть что-то собой представляет, можно увидеть на его блестящих вечеринках. День и ночь в его особняке на Лонг-Айленде шумит яркая молодежь, которая пьет, танцует и обсуждает его загадочный характер. Ибо Гэтсби - молодой, красивый, сказочно богатый - всегда кажется одиноким в толпе, наблюдающим и ждущим, хотя никто не знает чего. Под мерцающей поверхностью своей жизни он скрывает тайну: молчаливое желание, которое никогда не может быть исполнено. И вскоре эта разрушительная одержимость заставит его мир развалиться • Книга на анлийском языке • 'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' • Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything