The first book in his award-winning „Rabbit“ series, John Updike's „Rabbit, Run“ contains an afterword by the author in „Penguin Modern Classics“. It's 1959 and Harry ‚Rabbit‘ Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twen ..

"Oltre alle regole scritte, quelle del codice e delle sentenze che lo interpretano c'č una serie di regole non scritte. Queste ultime vengono rispettate con molta piů attenzione e cautela. E fra queste ce n'č una che piů o meno dice: un avvocato non ..

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists – a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour.„Rashomon“ and „In a Bamboo Grove“ inspired Kurosawa's magnificent ..

The second part of a masterful retelling of the stories surrounding the Trojan War. RETURN FROM TROY begins after the sacking of Troy, covering Odysseus's trials and Agamemnon's fate. The Heroes Return is the second volume in this masterful retelling ..

Horror fiction.

Two classic Layman novels in a fantastic new package.

Part of the }Hyperion Cantos{ series that established Dan Simmons as a major figure in world SF in the 1990s.

Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began ..

From the creator of „Conan“ comes this fully illustrated edition of every King Kull story.

From the „New York Times“ bestselling author of „Something Borrowed“ comes a novel that shows how someone with a „perfect life“ can lose it all–and then find everything.

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of „One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest“ Following the astonishing success of his first novel, „One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,“ Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential ..

In this follow-up to „Wicked“–the basis for the Tony Award-winning musical–beloved novelist Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz and introduces readers to Liir, the small boy Elphaba leaves behind at her untimely death.