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Serie: Penguin modern classics
PaperbackEngels9780141194257
7-6-2012
The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141194547
28-4-2011
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141194608
24-2-2011
Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140083583
24-4-1986
The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140189209
27-6-1996
Presents poetry drawn from the author's experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140189223
29-6-1995
Translated from the Italian, this volume includes plays such as "Six Characters in Search of an Author", "The tragedy Henry IV", and "So It Is, (If You Think So)". Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140189315
29-8-1996
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12 volumes. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141389240
2-8-2012
The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer. As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141389257
2-8-2012
On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male travelling companion. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141389554
1-11-2012
Features essays about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. This book deals with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141391595
2-8-2012
From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author's life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy and cabbala. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141394497
5-2-2015
Presents the life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher. Part adventure narrative, part travelogue, part spiritual guide, this title is suffused with his perspective on life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141394534
7-8-2014
Dissects the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. The author shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141394589
4-9-2014
Tells the story of Charlie Bucket, a mysterious, eccentric chocolate factory owner and the golden ticket that transforms his existence. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141394596
5-6-2014
'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141394893
3-4-2014
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this title follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141394909
3-4-2014
When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141398860
4-2-2016
In 1935, the author set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. This title describes the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141442334
26-2-2009
It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, and struggle to get on in life. Meer