"A free-wheeling vehicle ... an unforgettable ride!"--The New York Times Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this...
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the...
A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita...
The prizewinning, complete and unabridged translation--"the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever" (The Guardian)--of a work of unclassifiable...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 256, Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK, Autor: John Boyne, ISBN-13: 9781862305274, Data emiterii: 2008...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 272, Editura: Vintage Publishing, Autor: Anne Enright, ISBN-13: 9780099501633, Data emiterii: 2008...
"Ranks with Vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond ... joyous, soaring fiction. "--The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography...
The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including...
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach...
One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina sets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against the marriage of Levin...
The Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the "Mowgli" series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole...
Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written, " provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience...
Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's "philosophical tales, " in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant...
One of Dickens's best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens's own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse...
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they...
"A madcap genealogical adventure ... Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain. "--The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A. D. 1986. A simple...
In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been...
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield...
Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it...
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around...
The Decameron (c. 1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa...
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