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Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A brilliantly funny, honest novel from the author of Straight Talking, about ugly ducklings and swans, about attraction, addiction and the meaning of true love

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

This is a perfect introduction to the wonderful world of Peter Rabbit for babies and young children. Jemima Puddle-Duck: My First Little Library contains four small, chunky board books that gently introduce early learning concepts with help from beautiful classic illustrations of Beatrix Potter`s famous characters. Perfectly sized for little hands, the books are: Words, Numbers, Animals and Weather. Each double page contains a beautiful Beatrix Potter illustration and one simple word for young children to learn.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Hello Jemima! introduces very young children to Jemima Puddle-Duck, one of Beatrix Potter`s most delightful characters. The padded style is perfect for little hands, and children will love learning about Jemima as she quacks, dives, swims and flies through her farmyard world. As part of our new Baby Peter range, the contemporary artwork and gentle rhyme will make this a firm favourite with today`s parents and their babies.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

An ancient parchment bearing a mysterious cryptogram maps the most hazardous journey of Professor Lidenbrock`s career. With his nephew and a guide the Professor travels to Iceland. Their journey to the centre of the earth begins on the summit of a volcano and takes them down through secret passages, across a desolate underground sea populated by prehistoric marine monsters, on what may be a voyage of no return. Few writers have conveyed the sheer excitement of exploration and discovery so grippingly as Jules Verne. The great science fiction writer Arthur wrote: "The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who have ever lived; and "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" is a...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001

Jude Fawley, a stone-mason, has already suffered. His academic ambitions were thwarted by his poverty and class: trapped into a loveless marriage, he is now alone but not free. He comes to love his cousin Sue who, seemingly emancipated, is herself miserably married. Sue`s words to Jude are prophetic, for although together they defy conventional morality to seize a chance of happiness, they are ultimately defeated by both circumstance and the flaws within their own nature.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Living in a tiny apartment in New York and trapped in a job she hates, Julie Powell sees life passing her by. Then one night, she notices that the few items she`s grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Child`s legendary cookbook, "Mustering the Art of French Cooking". And The Project is born. Julie begins to cook - every one of the 524 recipes in the book, in the space of just one year. Soon The Project is all she can think about. While the richness of the food she slaves over spreads into the rest of her life… Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Annie and Duncan fit together naturally, like jigsaw pieces, though Duncan`s passionate obsession with Tucker Crowe, the reclusive, tortured-genius songwriter, has never left much time for anything more meaningful - marriage, kids, conversations about something other than Tucker Crowe and his disappearance after a mysterious incident in a nightclub toilet twenty years previously. In fact, Annie`s starting to wonder whether she`s wasted fifteen years on a bad relationship, stuck in a dull job in a dull town on England`s bleak east coast. When Tucker`s record company suddenly issue a stripped-down version of his most famous album, Tucker`s first release for decades, and Annie just can`t see what`s good about it, or at least what`s better...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002

The stories of the man-cub Mowgli's boyhood in the jungle have an imaginative power that has appealed to generations of children and adults. Brought up by wolves among the unforgettable characters of the jungle, Bagheera the black panther, and Baloo the bear who teaches him the law of the jungle, Mowgli grows up to become the Master of the Jungle. He can speak the jungle languages and understand their complex social structure, from the bees' nests to the monkey folk and the ferocity of the tiger Shere Khan. Ranging in tone from the simple heroism of 'Rikki-tikki-tavi' to the dark comedy of 'The Undertakers' and the poignancy of Mowgli's return to his own kind in 'The Spring Running', the...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

‘Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life’. This is the junk equation, the way in which heroin redefines the addict’s world. Burroughs’s cult classic is a raw, semi-autobiographical account of drug addiction, which outraged America and influenced generations of writers to come. He relates with unflinching realism the highs and lows of dependency: euphoria, hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings and strange sexual encounters, the quests to ease the hunger of the needle, the horrors of cold turkey and back again. Junky is a dark, powerful and mesmerizing account of one man’s challenge to turn self-destruction into art.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

`Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.` Thus, one of the creative visionaries of the Beat movement recites the junk equation, the calculus by which heroin redefines the addict`s world. Burroughs`s quasi-autobiographical narrative makes for a raw, fragmented and disturbing account of hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings, strange sexual encounters and quests to ease the hunger of the needle. This legendary account of one man`s challenge to turn self-destruction into art is as shocking and powerful as it has ever been.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Burroughs` first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighborhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology at Harvard) from the American post-war drug underground. A cult classic, it has influenced generations of writers with its raw, sparse and unapologetic tone. This definitive edition painstakingly recreates the author`s original text word for word.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a `good job` in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2010

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002

Kidnapped is a classic adventure story, as thrilling today as when it was first published. As he sets off into the world to seek his last remaining kinsman, Uncle Ebenezer, young David Balfour has no idea of the hazards and intrigues that the encounter will bring. He finds his uncle to be a decrepit, miserly man, and soon realizes that Ebenezer is also a liar. But before he can fathom his machinations, David is tricked into boarding the brig Covenant, and bound for slavery in distant Carolina… Overcoming the perils of sea and the turbulent fortunes that befall him after he is shipwrecked - including a charge of murder - David ultimately emerges triumphant to claim his rightful heritage.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012

Orphan sahib and bazaar-boy, Kim lives by his wits. His chameleon`s talent for disguise draws him into the Great Game - British intelligence in India - and on a mission to thwart foreign agents on the North-West Frontier. Kim`s travels coincide with the quest of his friend the Tibetan lama, who is seeking redemption from the Wheel of Life. They are the heroes of an adventure crammed with incident and humour, alive with the hustle, bustle, life and colour of India. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002

One of the later plays, "King Lear" is such a powerful depiction of suffering and redemption it is now thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest creation. When King Lear abdicates his throne and divides his kingdom between his three daughters, he offends both the law of family and the law of kingship. Spiritually blind and on the brink of madness, he begins to recognize the faults that lie within his soul and, as the drama reaches its cathartic conclusion, to make amends for them. The text of this edition is edited by and contains notes, a glossary and an introduction. Издание полностью на английском языке.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011