Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

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

A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI...

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

The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great...

'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...

The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder...

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

The poems of Emily Jane Brontл are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural...

'Vanity, not love, has been my folly'

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him...

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...

Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to...

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

Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...

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....

E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the...

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

Richard...

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent...

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

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

'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...