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Serie: Penguin clothbound classics
gebondenEngels3120 blz.9780141395203
1e druk
26-11-2024
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Meer
gebondenEngels480 blz.9780141040349
1e druk
23-1-2018
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. Meer
gebondenEngels368 blz.9780141996332
1e druk
10-10-2024
In telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering, in its physicality and its mystery. Meer
gebondenEngels320 blz.9780141197715
25-9-2024
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house. Meer
gebondenEngels304 blz.9780141442549
10-4-2025
Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. Meer
gebondenEngels128 blz.9780141394688
24-9-2024
When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Meer
gebondenEngels544 blz.9780141196909
8-10-2024
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. Meer
gebondenEngels352 blz.9780141393391
23-8-2024
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. Meer
gebondenEngels336 blz.9780241638439
23-8-2024
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Meer
gebondenEngels336 blz.9780141196640
24-9-2024
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. Meer
gebondenEngels272 blz.9780141192574
27-9-2024
Part of the "Clothbound Classics" series, this title collects sonnets of Shakespeare's that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Meer
gebondenEngels336 blz.9780241284629
24-9-2024
A beautiful clothbound edition of Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before WW2. Meer
gebondenEngels528 blz.9780241382691
8-10-2024
This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women. Meer
gebondenEngels864 blz.9780141199610
26-8-2024
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Meer
gebondenEngels288 blz.9780241468647
6-1-2025
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. Meer
gebondenEngels720 blz.9780241347683
7-3-2025
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a cat-and-mouse game with police, his conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy and redemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute. Meer