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""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 ..

Als Findelkind im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufgewachsen, flüchtet sich der junge Oliver Twist aus den Fängen seines brutalen Lehrherrn nach London. Doch im Moloch der Großstadt gerät er bald an den skrupellosen Hehler Fagin, der ein selt ..

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 Revised and Expanded Edition contains hundreds of new notes and illustrations.The first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Frankenstein“ by Mary Shelley. ‚Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness‘. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Go ..

Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, „Tender is the Night“ is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Oliver Twist“ by Charles Dickens. ‚A parish child – the orphan of a workhouse – the humble, half-starved drudge – to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none‘. Dar ..

The young Alice follows a hasty hare underground-to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures in all of literature. In this arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up, readers enter the world of make-believ ..

„Die (Vor-)Geschichte zum Fantasy-Helden-Epos "Der Herr der Ringe“. Absolut zu empfehlen und auch für Nicht-Fantasy-Fans sind die Abenteuer Bilbo Beutlins in Mittelerde ein Muss!." Berliner Morgenpost

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of A"lice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. '„Curiouser and curiouser!“ cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good ..

Anthony C. Yu's translation of „The Journey to the West“, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, „The Journey to the West“ ..