Najbolje ocenjeni: Svetovna klasika

Yasha the magician – sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape – is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assis ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „The Invisible Man“ by H. G. Wells. ‚People screamed. People sprang off the pavement…"The Invisible Man is coming! "The Invisible Man!""‘ With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind da ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.‘ Fe ..

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 ..

Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the house

Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a self divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl.

Title: Walden; or Life in the Woods.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all know ..

One of the most extreme books in the history of literature – a masterpiece of dark humour and pornographic to the point of excess, available here in a fresh translation.

Rejected by her guardians and offered cold charity at an orphanage, Jane Eyre has come to rely on her own intelligence and strength of character to guide her through life. But when she becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, working for the gruff Mr Ro ..

‚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 ..

Auf der Grundlage des Faust-Stoffes hat Thomas Mann in seinem 1947 erschienenen Musiker-Roman eine Parabel für die Verstrickung des Künstlertums in die politische Katastrophe des Nationalsozialismus geschaffen.§Textgrundlage für diesen Band ist die s ..

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision o ..