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You're beautiful, Johnny told her • So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is instead found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young girls • 'Immensely readable. The plot twist is both sinister and affecting, and so skilfully done that you remember why authors had plot twists in the first place' Guardian • Readers of The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer will adore Felicia's Journey. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd • William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement

The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories • William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers • Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year • Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil War • The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with the cause of independence and secretly fund Michael Collins' fighters. But one of their workers is an informer to the British, and when he's murdered on their land, though they know nothing of it, the Black and Tans come seeking revenge • Till now young Willy Quinton has led a pleasant, cosseted life. But the murder of his father and sisters by British soldiers brings him to a point when he can only contemplate revenge himself

Rathmoye, Ireland, in the middle of the last century, and into town comes a stranger on the day of Eileen Connulty's funeral. Taking unwanted and unasked for photographs, Florian Kilderry upsets its carefully settled status quo. But Ellie, a young convent girl married to a farmer still mourning his first wife, cannot help but be drawn to this trespassing youth. Over the course of a long, warm summer Ellie and Florian form an attachment that sleepy Rathmoye cannot ignore

It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love and fate take their inevitable course

Three hours to save the people you love • In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege • Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather desperate for news • In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save the people they love

"Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" - самая известная книга английского прозаика и драматурга Джерома Клапки Джерома. Изданная в Англии в 1889 году, она имела оглушительный успех • Трое друзей вместе со своим любимцем фокстерьером Монморанси отправляются в плавание на лодке по Темзе • Путешествие джентльменов сопровождается множеством неурядиц и происшествий, но они и не думают унывать • Автор видит иронию в любой ситуации и не перестает радовать читателя тонкими и остроумными описаниями • Книга на английском языке • A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics • Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J

'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' • Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults and decide what kind of adults they hope to become

Пятьдесят новых книг, воспевающих новаторский дух серии Penguin Modern Classics, от вдохновляющих эссе до новаторской художественной литературы и поэзии • - О жестокость времени, которое разрушает все сущее! • "Соблазнительные, странные и вызывающие трепет истории из Японии начала 20-го века: "За тюрьмой" Нагаи, "Доктор философии в чулане" Уно и "глубоко жуткий генерал Ким" Акутагавы • Книга на английском языке • Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry • 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things! • 'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity, 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of Felicite - an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of desolation and loss. Inspired by a stained-glass window in Rouen cathedral, 'The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator' describes the fate of Julian, a sadistic hunter destined to murder his own parents. The blend of faith and cruelty that dominates this story may also be found in 'Herodias' - a reworking of the tale of Salome and John the Baptist

Жанр готического романа, особенно популярный в период между 1765 и 1825 годами, основывается на ужасных сверхъестественных явлениях и событиях, экзотике и напряжении • В этом издании, дополненном вступительной статьёй от историка литературы Марио Праца, собраны три особенно важных готических романа • «Замок Отранто» Хораса Уолпола, опубликованный анонимно в 1765 году, является первым произведением своего жанра и, пожалуй, самым готическим в подборке • «Ватек», повесть эксцентричного миллионера Уильяма Бекфорда, опубликованная в 1786 году, добавляет в готический романтизм пламенные мотивы «1000 и 1 ночи» • «Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей», написанный Мэри Шелли в 1818 году, сегодня вызывает мурашки так же, как и в день своей публикации • Книга на английском языке

Вашему вниманию предлагаются знаменитые романы Джерома К. Джерома: "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" и "Трое на велосипедах" • Идет время, сменяются эпохи, но читатели по-прежнему не могут оторваться от совершенно невероятной истории путешествия троих беззаботных английских джентльменов, пустившихся в плавание по Темзе вместе со своим любимцем - фокстерьером Монморанси • Забавные недоразумения, веселые коллизии и полные комизма ситуации, из которых герои выходят, сохраняя истинно британское чувство собственного достоинства, и сегодня поражают своей оригинальностью и неувядающим юмором • Более того, джентльмены честно пытаются идти в ногу с прогрессом - и овладеть последним достижением современной техники • Джером К. Джером - писатель, которого будут с наслаждением читать всегда