"Oneworld Classics" will include the greatest masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre and will also redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. Psychological study, ghost story, gothic thriller, historical romance, religious ...
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac''s seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen ...
Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels” and part of the Western canon.Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a journey up the River Congo which changed his life. His journey upriver to find Kurtz, the charismatic head ...
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan''s most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village ...
"A true genius.Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams A phizz-whizzing rebrand for the world''''s No.1 storyteller - Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake''''s inimitable artwork. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka''''s chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession ...
Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, is back - and this time he holds the fate of the whole land in his hands.For more than a hundred years, humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and ...
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. "Factotum" follows ...
The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only ...
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid''s Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood''s modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear ...
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When ...
Alexandre Dumas'' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter ...
''Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man''. California''s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth ...
Active travelers trust National Geographic to deliver what they want in a guidebook: expert advice, insider tips, and the cultural feel of each destination not easily found online. These guides are pitch-perfect for today\''s experiential travel enthusiasts who Amsterdam\''s profusion of cultural and ...
Everything''''s changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn''''t enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. And disconcertingly, he actually seems to care. But even if fatherhood is distracting Dexter from his midnight excursions ...
This deluxe paperback edition featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts\'' halfway house and a tennis academy, ...
The complete fourth novel from Stephenie\''s Meyer\''s bestselling Twilight Saga, now with a gorgeous new cover to match the film artwork. To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her ...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. This bestselling modern classic, reissued with a beautiful new cover design, is a story for people who want to follow their dreams and make their own rules ...
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years ...
