Penguin: With an essay by Peter Ackroyd. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the... Zobraziť viac
Arguably the greatest dystopian novel of all time and the most influential post-war work of fiction Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance, censorship and mind control... Zobraziť viac
Winston Smith re-writes history for the Ministry of Truth in Oceania. Big Brother and the Thought Police watch everyone for signs of Thought Crime. But when Winston falls in love with Julia, he begins to have new ideas... Zobraziť viac
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past... Zobraziť viac
A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke... Zobraziť viac
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and ... Zobraziť viac
A lone gunman takes the women and doctors at a controversial abortion clinic hostage. Nobody has ended up there by choice. As the tense negotiation for their release unfolds, hour by crucial hour, ... Zobraziť viac
The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of person Zobraziť viac
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the... Zobraziť viac
An artist paints a beautiful young man called Dorian Gray. When Dorian sees the picture, he decides to give his soul to keep his beautiful face. He lives a bad life and he is bad to many people, but his face never changes... Zobraziť viac
Set in the Gulf Stream off coast of Havana Hemnigway´s mgnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and giant fish. Zobraziť viac
Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi an Zobraziť viac
Dzhordzh Orvell (spravzhnye imʺya — Erik Artur Bler) — anhliysʹkyy prozayik, eseyist, zhurnalist i krytyk. Yoho tvorchistʹ kharakteryzuyetʹsya pronyzlyvoyu sotsialʹnoyu krytykoyu, opozytsiynistyu do totalitaryzmu... Zobraziť viac
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and ... Zobraziť viac
Since its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, has remained the subject of critical controversy... Zobraziť viac
There is a new animal in the sea, and it is killing people... "We can find it!" says Captain Farragut. But what do they find? And can they stop it? ... Zobraziť viac
L' histoire raconte l' expérience de l’auteur... Zobraziť viac
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of... Zobraziť viac
