Penguin The Happy Return Форестер Сесил Скотт

1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command • As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy • Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves • After a character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea • This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower

The Gripping Naval Thriller, Now A Major Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks • 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command • Ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas is a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships, carrying vital Allied supplies • In charge is Commander Krause, a grizzled but unproven veteran of the U.S. Navy • Over the next forty-eight hours he will stay on watch aboard the bridge of his destroyer as the convoy is hounded by a murderous wolf pack of German U-boats determined to sink every ship without trace • But armed with extraordinary courage and grit, Commander Krause will battle the U-boats, tiredness, self-doubt and self-reproach, as he desperately tries to protect the ships and lives under his command

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea • 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas • As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, must still face savage pirates, reckless revolutionaries and a violent hurricane • And while his retirement at half-pay might well be in sight, Hornblower will need every ounce of his rapier wit and quick thinking - not to mention his courage and leadership - to ensure that the lasting peace in Europe reaches the turbulent seas of the West Indies • This is the tenth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower

Join Horatio Hornblower and as he sets sail on a world of adventure, fighting against the ruthless Napoleonic France, taking command in the West Indies, and leading his squadron through the vicious seas • Hornblower shows his relentless courage time and time again in the face of battle, tackling times of trouble with his signature strength, resourcefulness, and with his squadron by his side • This omnibus edition contains • · Flying Colours • · The Commodore • · Lord Hornblower • · Hornblower in the West Indies

The African Queen is C.S Forester's sublime story of how Rose Sayer, a straitlaced missionary and Charlie Allnut, a gin-swilling riverboat owner, sail down a dangerous African river in a rusty old tub, The African Queen and outwit the Germans is a classic tale of derring-do. Made into a Hollywood movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, it remains one of the most popular films ever made

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

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson • The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching

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

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

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death • Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call' • A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it

Джей Гэтсби – человек, у которого есть всё. Но одна вещь всегда будет ему недоступна. Все известные люди бывают на его зажигательных вечеринках. Его поместье на Лонг-Айленде днём и ночью полно пьющих, танцующих людей, обсуждающих его таинственную персону. Но Гэтсби – молодой, красивый, сказочно богатый, – всегда кажется одиноким в толпе, будто бы он чего-то ждёт, но никто не знает, чего же. Под мерцающей поверхностью его жизни скрывается секрет – тихое, невыполнимое желание. И вскоре разрушительная одержимость полностью разрушит его мир • Роман выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби», литературная жемчужина эпохи джаза, станет великолепным подарком поклонникам творчества автора • В 2013 году по книге был снят одноимённый фильм с Леонардо ди Каприо и Тоби Магуайром в главных ролях