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Palladio | Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and...

The Narrative of Trajan's Column | 'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on ...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings | 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding' Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scroo...

One of Us Is Lying. Level 6. B1+ | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning ex...

The Riverside Villas Murder | A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the...

The Adventures of Augie March | A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including bu...

Orwell and the Dispossessed | The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poo...

A Short History of London | LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys a...

A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Philip Eade After seven years of marriage, the...

Complete Poems and Translations | This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на...

The Big Screen. The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us | In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, te...

Murder Under the Tuscan Sun | An isolated castle, a deadly crime. Is this real or a nightmare? In a remote castle high up in the Tuscan hills secrets are simmering among its glamorous English resident...

Broken Heart | Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast. CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees her leave. She is never seen again. Her sister calls missing persons investigator D...

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories | The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the height of his power a...

The Krull House | 'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign' Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, t...

Grown Ups | Meet Jessie, Cara and Nell. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey. Three very different women tied to three very different men. Every family occasion is a party - until the day the...

Celtic Empire | A deadly collision puts Dirk Pitt on the trail of an ancient mystery stretching back thousands of years... When a rogue cargo freighter strikes an oil tanker in the Detroit River, the ...

A Modern Way to Live. 5 Design Principles from The Modern House | Transform your home and happiness with five guiding principles from The Modern House. In 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albe...

The Radetzky March | Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years prece...

The Memory Keeper's Daughter | The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal. Families have secrets they ...

From Bacteria to Bach and Back. The Evolution of Minds | What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologi...

Lion | Pericles stands in the shadow of his father: a man who once saved Athens. To make his own name he must prove himself in the liar's den of Athenian politics: pitting wits against friends, scepti...

Various Pets Alive and Dead | Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths . . . Various Pets Alive and Dead is the wonderfully funny fourth novel from Marina Lewycka, author of the bestsell...

Going Solo | In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa. 'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out ...

Very Good, Jeeves | A Jeeves and Wooster collection An outstanding collection of Jeeves stories, everyone a winner, in which Jeeves endeavors to give satisfaction: By saving a grumpy cabinet minister ...

Plague Ship | Clive Cussler's fifth Oregon Files novel, Plague Ship, pits Juan Cabrillo against a deadly adversary. In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary di...

The Franchise Affair | Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to be? Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can recall every det...

Sundiata the Lion King and Other Royal Tales. Level 2 | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and...

Incident at Vichy | In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are,...

Mess | In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance -- on purpose. Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured l...

The Talent Code. Greatness isn't born. It's grown | In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power...

Go | The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is th...

Sword of Honour | Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Martin Stannard Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier i...

Run Rose Run | Find a future. Lose a past. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where ...

When I Was Mortal | A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions f...

City of Gold | January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has bee...

Human Happiness | Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satis...

How (Not) To Be Strong | An inspiring memoir of finding strength and resilience from the former England Lioness. From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering...

Pride and Prejudice | When two rich young gentlemen move to town, they don't go unnoticed - especially when Mrs Bennett vows to have one of her five daughters marry into their fortunes. But love, as J...

Hard Times | 'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else' Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in ...

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House | Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as...

Close to Home | Someone took Daisy Mason . . . Someone you know. Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least ...

Sylvia's Lovers | Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service i...

The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs | The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painf...

Black Cake | Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . . When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her funeral, they receive an unexpected inheritance. First, a tradit...

The Walking People | 1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her quiet village to follow her fearless sister Johanna onto a ship bound for New York . . . It's here that she steps out of her sis...

Strange Sally Diamond | Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is t...

The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, exchanges ...

Civilization. The West and the Rest | In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, ...

No Less The Devil | 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.' It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to...

Diary of a Country Priest | In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and loving This quiet, imaginative novel is a stu...

Leonardo da Vinci | 'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.' Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the li...

Mary and Maria. Matilda | These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Franke...

Queen Elizabeth II. Her Life in Our Times | From the best-selling author of George VI, Elizabeth and Diana, the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II, to tie in with the Diamond Jubilee Elizabeth...

Barchester Towers | After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr P...

The Prose Edda | The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythology Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Ed...

The House of Mirth | A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of N...

How to Have Feminist Sex. A Fairly Graphic Guide | 'Funny, kind, generous and smart - I could have done with the wisdom of Flo Perry far sooner' Dolly Alderton When it comes to our sex lives, few of u...

Poet's Pub | Poet's Pub is the classic comic novel by Eric Linklater, set in an English pub. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes control of the Pelican Pub, what he desires most is the pe...

The Poetics of Space | Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscio...

Maigret's Dead Man | Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. 'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to anot...

Witcraft. The Invention of Philosophy in English | This fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English presents a new form of philosophical storytelling. Ree tells the sto...

A Modest Proposal | '... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th b...

Effi Briest | Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Hel...