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История о таинственном обвинении, суде и расплате, навязанных Джозефу К. Кафки, - одна из главных притч двадцатого века, которая с тех пор оказала влияние почти на каждого крупного писателя. Изображая абсурд и ужасающее со скрупулезной фактологической точностью и ровностью тона, Франц Кафка представляет мир, который мы узнаем, в захватывающем повествовании, которое также является раскрытием его скрытого значения • Книга на английском языке • A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete

История о таинственном обвинении, суде и расплате, навязанных Джозефу К. Кафки, - одна из главных притч двадцатого века, которая с тех пор оказала влияние почти на каждого крупного писателя. Изображая абсурд и ужасающее со скрупулезной фактологической точностью и ровностью тона, Франц Кафка представляет мир, который мы узнаем, в захватывающем повествовании, которое также является раскрытием его скрытого значения • Книга на английском языке • 'Dear God!' said the guard. 'Why can't you just co-operate in a situation like yours? You seem to be annoying us needlessly, we who of all your fellow men are most likely to have your interests at heart just now!' • Josef K., a senior official in a large bank, is arrested although what he has done is not made clear

История о таинственном обвинении, суде и расплате, навязанных Джозефу К. Кафки, - одна из главных притч двадцатого века, которая с тех пор оказала влияние почти на каждого крупного писателя. Изображая абсурд и ужасающее со скрупулезной фактологической точностью и ровностью тона, Франц Кафка представляет мир, который мы узнаем, в захватывающем повествовании, которое также является раскрытием его скрытого значения • Книга на английском языке • In Kafka's powerful and disturbing novel, an innocent man is arrested and repeatedly interrogated for a crime that is never ever explained • Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover

История о таинственном обвинении, суде и расплате, навязанных Джозефу К. Кафки, - одна из главных притч двадцатого века, которая с тех пор оказала влияние почти на каждого крупного писателя. Изображая абсурд и ужасающее со скрупулезной фактологической точностью и ровностью тона, Франц Кафка представляет мир, который мы узнаем, в захватывающем повествовании, которое также является раскрытием его скрытого значения • Книга на английском языке • Josef К., a senior official in a large bank, is arrested although what he has done is never made clear • His life is thrown into turmoil as he becomes enmeshed in a struggle to prove his innocence. But he is battling against baffling rules administered by a remote and uncaring bureaucracy. And he doesn't help his case by talking when he should be listening

История о таинственном обвинении, суде и расплате, навязанных Джозефу К. Кафки, - одна из главных притч двадцатого века, которая с тех пор оказала влияние почти на каждого крупного писателя. Изображая абсурд и ужасающее со скрупулезной фактологической точностью и ровностью тона, Франц Кафка представляет мир, который мы узнаем, в захватывающем повествовании, которое также является раскрытием его скрытого значения • Книга на английском языке • On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K

Вызванный на должность землемера к таинственному хозяину замка, персонаж, известный как К., оказывается в ожесточенной и запутанной борьбе за то, чтобы связаться со своим новым работодателем и приступить к выполнению своих обязанностей. Притча Кафки, которая движется между обыденным и трансцендентным, является одним из величайших вкладов двадцатого века в небольшое собрание мировых мифов • Книга на английском языке • Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. Kafka’s parable, which moves between the mundane and the transcendent, is one of the twentieth century’s greatest contributions to the small body of world myths

'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir Nabokov • The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.'s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety

The charges: explosive • Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with killing in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops • The evidence: shocking • Cross knows it was self-defense. But, as the case against him builds, even those closest to him begin to doubt his innocence • The People vs. Alex Cross: the trial of the century • With his whole life and career on the line, if Cross can't convince his own family that he didn't pull the trigger with intent to kill, how can he hope to persuade a jury?

Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel includes a new introduction by Jonathan Freedland in Penguin Modern Classics • As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietnam War

'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death' • The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy of a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges against him. In the Crito, awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer • So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served • It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and the inhumanity of the state. And, under the shadow of the hangman's noose, he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him