Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS'

Silent Spring [Oprawa Miękka]
Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,

€12,52

Giovanni's Room [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vac

€11,33

Another Country [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story o

€12,52

Delta of Venus [Oprawa Miękka]
Anais . Nin

As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics In D

€13,91

A Christmas Memory [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of

€14,73

Up Above the World [Oprawa Miękka]
Paul Bowles

A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip become

€13,75

Second-Class Citizen [Oprawa Miękka]
Buchi Emecheta

'Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art' Observer 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evarist

€15,55

Siddhartha [Oprawa Miękka]
Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this

€17,22

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Oprawa Miękka]
Kerouac Burroughs , William S. Jack

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confes

€14,37

Naked Lunch [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in

€12,49

The Subterraneans [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian,

€15,19

The Plague [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. E

€10,54

Pale Fire [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on camp

€13,04

The Chrysalids [Oprawa Miękka]
John Wyndham

"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors". -M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation: Wyndham takes the reader into the ang

€16,38

The Town and the City [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his lat

€19,49

Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Oprawa Miękka]
T. E. Lawrence

Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign wh

€15,79

Flight to Arras [Oprawa Miękka]
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and d

€15,73

Southern Mail / Night Flight [Oprawa Miękka]
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and

€15,79

Fictions [Oprawa Miękka]
Jorge Borges

Nobody before Borges had ever attempted this strange and wonderful mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes. Now we can see it in all its intense

€14,18

An Outline of Psychoanalysis [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way b

€16,94

Summer Crossing [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense

€13,88

The Chandelier [Oprawa Miękka]
Lispector Clarice

'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world' Like the clay from which she sculpts f

€15,73

Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile [Oprawa Miękka]
Françoise Sagan

Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was c

€13,88

The Haunting of Hill House [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of t

€14,44

Under the Jaguar Sun [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able

€13,88

The World of Sex [Oprawa Miękka]
Henry Miller

The World of Sex is Henry Miller's most important essay, the manifesto in which he explains why sex matters and why he wrote his famously banned novels, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Seek

€2,74

Epitaph for a Spy [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Ambler

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be develo

€14,37

100 Artists' Manifestos [Oprawa Miękka]
Alex Danchev

In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism,

€16,94

Maggie Cassidy [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, Maggie Cassidy is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looki

€13,88

Wide Sargasso Sea [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean Rhys

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Mic

€12,49

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Oprawa Miękka] Kerouac Burroughs , William S. Jack

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Oprawa Miękka]
Kerouac Burroughs , William S. Jack