Penguin Group

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell`s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means....

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

In this latest In Death thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Lieutenant Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm - are brutally killed on the same night.

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

The remarkable story of Roald Dahl`s early years at school and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl`s childhood tales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section of facts about Roald Dahl.

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Дата выхода: август 2011

Roald Dahl`s life was as bizarre, exciting and funny as the stories he wrote, and here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover and a whole new end section of fascinating facts about Roald Dahl.

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

Steeplechase jockey Christmas "Kit" Fielding has had more than his share of close calls both on and off the course. But trouble hits close to home when a grudge between his family and his sister`s in-laws turns into a blood feud.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

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 and go to Tiffany`s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...` Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike....

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Дата выхода: январь 2020

At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most ...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Can We Still Be Friends is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue. It`s the summer of 1983 and best friends, Salome, Annie and Kendra have left university to embark on adulthood. Three very different girls with very different paths ahead.

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Дата выхода: апрель 2013

"The Canterbury Tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer`s wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burly, drunken Miller. As they wend their way from Southwark to Canterbury, tales are told to pass the time, and the stories are as diverse as the narrators, encompassing themes such as adultery, revenge, courtly love, lechery, avarice and penitence. As humorous today as when it was written over six centuries ago, "The Canterbury Tales" remains one of the most popular and enjoyable of the classic works of literature. Формат: 11 см х 18 см.

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Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Welcome to Meadowbank, an exclusive school for privileged young ladies. A fine lot. A dangerous one, too. Two teachers have already bitten the dust. It`s obvious to Hercule Poirot that someone is out to scratch Meadowbank`s respectable veneer.

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

"Big Daddy" Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.

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Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

The tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Picking right up where "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" left off, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we`ve all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie`s family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius.

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

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Дата выхода: январь 2012

Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It s the prize of a lifetime! Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await - Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could all be his. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см.

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Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years 1906: For two years, the western states of America have endured a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and then vanishes withouth a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the "Butcher Bandit", the government brings in the best man they can find - a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell. From Arizone to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, Bell pursues the sharpest and deadliest criminal mind he has ever encountered using science, deduction, and intuition. But his quarry is getting...

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Дата выхода: август 2011

When newlywed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home that very night, where her humiliated mother beats her savagely and her two brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar. As he wakes to thoughts of the previous night`s revelry, Santiago is unaware of the slurs that have been cast against him. But with Angela`s brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town knows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.

Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012

Chinese edition of the bestseller Churchill, a biography of the political figure whose work impacted the entire world. Paul Johnson is a consummate biographer who doesn`t hide the fact that he likes Churchill, but the biography is first rate, scholarly as well as entertaining. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Clairvoyant Cassie Palmer has inherited new magical powers - including the ability to travel through time. But it`s a whole lot of responsibility she`d rather not have. Now she`s the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her - and her magic - over to their side. But one particular master vampire didn`t ask what Cassie wanted before putting a claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn`t know if what she feels for him is real or

Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011

With tons of practical tips and tools for learning to flaunt what they ve got, dozens of specific how-tos, common no-nos, and huge blunders that even smart girls make, this tongue-in-cheek book will train readers to be a lady, and not a tramp.

Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: апрель 2010

A brand new MYTH-filled with reading, writing, and arithMYTHtic. The "legendary" magician Skeeve tries to live up to his reputation by training young spellcasters in the tricks of the trade-with less than magical results.

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

"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. Anthony Burgess` "A Clockwork Orange" was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven`s Ninth and ultra-violence - as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state`s sinister apparatus.

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Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

"The Closed Circle" is Jonathan Coe`s hilarious sequel to "The Rotters` Club". It`s the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair`s Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by extension Benjamin`s MP brother Paul) to blame? Or are the `rotters` themselves - only passingly faithful to their dreams - really at fault? "The Closed Circle" - sequel to "The Rotters` Club" - depicts a group of former school friends as older, wiser and disillusioned in Blair`s Britain at the turn of the millennium. It proves that the present can never truly be disentangled from the past....

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

There`s only one vampire that cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and it`s Bill Compton. But when she catches him in a serious act of betrayal, she`s not sure whether to save him - or sharpen some stakes.

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

Now repackaged--the classic story of reporter Holly Thorne, who is intrigued by the strange, quiet Jim Ironheart. Jim has saved 12 lives in three months, and now Holly`s falling in love with him. But what power compels an ordinary man to be a hero? Reissue.

Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011