Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the...

'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it...

It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most...

When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the...

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.


A well-dressed, wealthy woman has...

Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new...

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or,...

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile....

'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'

Richard...

The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

In these four...

Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry 'Preacher'...

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose,...