Svetovna klasika

Romulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel „Dona Barbara“. Published in 1929 and ..

""Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale."" Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious–during a nightmare from which his wife awakened h ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde“ by Robert Louis Stevenson. ‚All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil‘. Published ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.‘ Reveal ..

‚I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.‘ Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She is seduced and abandoned, and forced to support hers ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Evelina“ by Frances Burney. ‚O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!‘ In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautifu ..

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinctio ..

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinctio ..

Bathsheba Everdene, independent and uncompromising, comes to a small rural community to take up a position as a farmer, where her confident presence draws three different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the seducer Sergeant Troy and devoted s ..

The first volume of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. In ancient times the Dark Lord forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so he could rule all others. The ring falls into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, and his cousin Frodo must make a perilous journey to the Cracks of Doom to destroy it.

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family – their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like ..

‚And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep‘ In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transg ..