Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic...

'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from...

'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'

Just as...

Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he...

'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'

Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to...

Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own....

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery

'It was a puzzle with no solution....

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to...

A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation...

A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural...

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in...

Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its...

A tense and troubling tale of forbidden love in 1940s Stockholm by one of Sweden's greatest writers, introduced by Siri...

From the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the...

Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...

Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even...

'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious...

'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'

Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine...

Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one...

A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery

'Sometimes, in my capacity...

"For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left...

Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has...

Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train...

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he...

In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young...

A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction

Strange beasts,...

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village,...

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and...

It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will...