Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS'

Americana [Oprawa Miękka]
Don DeLillo

His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-l

€13,83

Collected Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the

€21,24

Enemies A Love Story [Oprawa Miękka]
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Published in 1972, Enemies, A Love Story is an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past. Herman Broder, a refugee and

€15,56

Repetition [Oprawa Miękka]
Peter Handke

'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never k

€14,32

The Franchise Affair [Oprawa Miękka]
Josephine Tey

Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abu

€13,08

Journey into Fear [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Ambler

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots we

€13,08

Snow Country [Oprawa Miękka]
Yasunari Kawabata

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is

€12,34

The Chosen [Oprawa Miękka]
Chaim Potok

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brough

€14,32

Lady Sings the Blues [Oprawa Miękka]
Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law

€13,83

The Samurai [Oprawa Miękka]
Shusaku Endo

In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samur

€13,83

Kafka's Other Trial [Oprawa Miękka]
Elias Canetti

In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancée Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen i

€13,83

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

€13,83

Averno [Oprawa Miękka]
Louise Glück

This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolatio

€11,35

Take A Girl Like You [Oprawa Miękka]
Kingsley Amis

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This per

€13,83

Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born int

€10,73

Into the War [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the t

€13,33

Is God Happy? Selected Essays [Oprawa Miękka]
Leszek Kołakowski

'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth ce

€11,65

Summer Will Show [Oprawa Miękka]
Warner Sylvia Townsend

Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to s

€12,10

Black Skin, White Masks [Oprawa Miękka]
Frantz Fanon

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis 'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage

€12,59

Tristessa [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and

€12,84

Of Mice and Men [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventual

€11,35

Visions of Gerard [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguis

€12,61

The History of Sexuality Volume 1 The Will to Know.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality Volume 1 The Will to Knowledge

'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Vi

€14,07

A Clergyman's Daughter [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for t

€13,33

Desolation Angels [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his

€11,35

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

€15,06

Call for the Dead [Oprawa Miękka]
Carré John le

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his o

€10,36

Demian [Oprawa Miękka]
Herman Hesse

Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering t

€13,58

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

€12,78

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story From P.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Philip Hensher

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnifice

€16,79

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