Penguin Books

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002

Black Beauty is handsome and spirited, with a sweet temper. When he is four years old he is sold to a new owner who gently breaks him in. He is no longer free to gallop around the fields yet there is happiness and adventure among the hardship as his situation changes from being a carriage horse on a country estate to a cab horse in town. At the same time he is aware that his well-being and future fate depend very much on the kindness or cruelty of his various masters. The author's only book, Black Beauty was a huge success when it was first published in 1877. Its exposure of the ill-treatment of horses at the hands of their owners'led to a change in people's attitudes towards horses and domestic animals in general.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2010

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2001

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2003

Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the police will dismiss her fears out of hand, Frieda reluctantly finds herself drawn into the heart of the case. A previous abduction, from twenty years ago, suggests a new lead - one that only Frieda, an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals, can uncover. Struggling to make sense of this terrifying investigation, Frieda will face her darkest fears in the hunt for...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: март 2012

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 1975

This enchanting collection of art and poetry features Cicely Mary Barker`s most exquisite Flower Fairy paintings and poems from the following books: Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Summer, Flower Fairies of the Autumn and Flower Fairies of the Winter. This book also includes five rarely seen Flower Fairies which have been omitted from Flower Fairies of the Summer for many years; The Sorrel Fairy, The Convolvulus Fairy, The White Campion Fairy, The Thistle Fairy and The Wild Thyme Fairy. This magical book is housed in a beautiful slipcase and celebrates Cicely Mary Barker`s incredible talent and the enduring appeal of the beautiful fairies she created. It would make the perfect present for any fairy fan or collector,...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, "The Book of Dave" is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Cath and Si are best friends. Total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy, and emotionally closed. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. When Portia steps back into their lives, her reappearance sets off a chain of events that tests them to the limit. Does Portia have a hidden agenda, or is she just looking for happy endings all round? Whatever the answers, none of them could ever predict the

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Funny, irreverent and sometimes sad, here is the story of the early life of one of the world`s best-loved authors. From the evocation of an enchanted boyhood spent in Wales and Norway to his unhappy experiences at an English public school, these sparkling memoirs are filled with wit, high spirits and more than a touch of the macabre.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom for ever. Braveheart is the true story of Scottish hero William Wallace, whose passion and courage united the Scottish people in their struggle against the ruthless English king. His story is one of romance, intrigue, heroism, honour and a desperate battle for the liberty of Scotland.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil`s wild

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Meet Holly Golightly - a true original, a free-spirited, lop-sided romantic who owns a fiery red cat as wild and restless as she is. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, she is top notch in the style department and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany`s that makes her feel at home.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian`s magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian. Probably Waugh`s best-loved work, "Brideshead Revisited" was made into a phenomenally successful television drama series, starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh`s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells tht story of Charles Ryder`s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. David Lodge`s The British Museum is Falling Down was published in 1965 and is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. It tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on `Vatican roulette` to avoid a fourth child.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2000

JANE EYRE "The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself". "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" "May you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!" AGNES GREY "The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt". THE PROFESSOR "She was not handsome, she was not rich, she was not even accomplished, yet she was my life`s treasure; I must then be a man of peculiar discernment".

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011

In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life for herself in Brooklyn. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large department store, night classes in Brooklyn College and Friday evenings on the dance floor of the parish hall - until she realizes that she has found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to new possibilities, she finds herself...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Such is the strength of Joe Saul`s longing for a child, that he feels he is cursed after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His young wife secretly conceives the child of another man and when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011