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Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love

Первоначально опубликованный в период расцвета могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна закатилась" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожащие истины как о войне, так и о человеческой природе • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

Первоначально опубликованный в зените могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна зашла" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожные истины как о войне, так и о природе человека • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

A tsunami and a war, a mother and a daughter, a husband and a wife: Joanna Rossiter's haunting novel explores how these relationships are welded and dissolved by extraordinary circumstances beyond human control. Beautifully observed and moving, A Lost Place is a novel for fans of Sadie Jones' The Outcast, Amanda Hodgkinson's 22 Britannia Road and Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola. Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of India, when she wakes in the morning to see a wave on the horizon, taller than the height of her guest house on Kanyakumari beach. Her husband is nowhere to be seen. On the other side of the world, unhappily estranged from her daughter, is Alice's mother, Violet

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818-1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист • В сборнике "Ночь вокруг меня" представлены некоторые из ее самых необычных стихотворений • Книга на английском языке • '... ever-present, phantom thing • My slave, my comrade, and my king' • Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe

"... slowly uncoiling their tentacles... and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - The Magic Shop and The Land Ironclads. This is one of 46 new books in the best-selling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one that remained unfinished at the time of his death. This new selection contains all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; his dabbling in the occult; his imprisonment and thrilling escape; and his amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns

Secrets can kill • Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home • Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182 • What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone? • Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne

Немногие места так хорошо знакомы, как побережье, и лишь немногие так полны тайн и сюрпризов • Как кузнечики наследуют встроенный компас от своих родителей? Как крабы разбираются в приливах? Как смерть одного мигуна может гарантировать жизнь его товарищей? Что знает креветка? • В книге "Море не состоит из воды" Адам Николсон исследует природные чудеса приливной зоны и наши давние человеческие отношения с ней. Физика морей, биология актиний и моллюсков, долгая история земли и истории, которые мы рассказываем о тех, кто жил здесь: все взаимосвязано в этой зоне, где философ, ученый и поэт могут встретиться и найти смысл • В этом сочетании увлекательной, удивительной экологии и яркой человеческой истории Адам Николсон приглашает на береговую линию. Любой, кто пожелает, может заглянуть за пределы своего собственного отражения и обнаружить там чудесное, ожидающее в дюйме от их носа

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude' • When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom • The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War

Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a wonder at the natural world, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is Jules Verne's most enduringly popular novel. It begins when a vast black object is spotted menacing the oceans, causing panic over the world. When Professor Aronnax joins an expedition to hunt down the creature, he and his two companions discover it is a giant submarine, the Nautilus. Captured and held prisoner on board by its captain, Nemo - unpredictable, enigmatic, exiled from humanity - they have no choice but to travel the terrifying underwater depths with him