Svetovna klasika

New edition of the SF classic, first published in 1951.

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends ..

Gigi Translated by Boger Senhouse, The Cat Translated by Antonia White. Gigi's days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced by what she's taught, Gigi surprises all with her ..

The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his moststimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) are forsaken, as w ..

New edition of the first volume in the }Roads To Freedom{ trilogy.

Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation. „The Paradise“, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. „The Penguin Classics“ edition of Emile Zola's „The Ladies' Delight“ is based on an acclaimed, vivid and modern tr ..

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella „The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.“ A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, ..

On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself despite the fact he ..

One of the world's greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences–an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition to the modern age. In the slums of czarist ..

La selva es el escenario y personaje omnipresente de estos cuentos. La selva tropical, con su violencia natural incontenible, frente alhombre, aliado a veces, destructor las más, de esa naturaleza salvaje. Y en medio, la fauna: desde la gigantesca se ..

Doris ist Sekretärin bei einem zudringlichen Rechtsanwalt. Sie will nicht mehr tagaus, tagein lange Briefe tippen, sondern ein Star werden. Sie will hinaus in die große Welt, ins Berlin der Roaring Twenties . . .

Ein Mann, Exilrusse, versucht das wahre Leben seines Halbbruders, des Schriftstellers Sebastian Knight, zu rekonstruieren. Er besitzt nichts als ein paar Jugenderinnerungen, einige magere Informationen, eine intime Kenntnis der Knightschen Bücher – u ..