Книги издательства Penguin Group
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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The most curious, funny, insightful, and expressive invectives from more than forty languages — fully illustrated, you miserable misokakku.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George Ill's England. A beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey, and the dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man — Sebastian St. Cyr.
Название: When Gods Die
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2007
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The young wife of an aging marquis is found murdered and wearing a necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses — that is, until it was lost with its last owner, Sebastian St. Cyrs mother. Now Sebastian is lured into a dangerous investigation of the marchionesss death — and his mothers uncertain fate.
Название: Where Serpents Sleep
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, enlists Sebastian St. Cyr's help in investigating the brutal murders of eight prostitutes by a killer whose ominous plot threatens to shake the nation to its very core.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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In 1811, murder has jarred London's elite. The sons of prominent families have been found at dawn in public places, their bodies mutilated and strange objects stuffed into their mouths. Although Sebastian St. Cyr is distracted by his seemingly doomed relationship with actress Kat Boleyn, the oddness of these murders nags at him — and he becomes determined to track down the assassin, even at the risk of his own life.
Название: 1984 — Nineteen Eighty-four
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2000
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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the harsh totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty he begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker, Julia, but soon discovers that the true price of freedom is betrayal.
Название: The Accidental
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way.
Название: Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage.
Название: Alphabet Weekends
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Natalie and her sisters have known Tom and his family forever. They climbed trees together, scraped knees on the same pavements and, in taking shared steps towards adulthood, shaped bonds that would last a lifetime. So when Natalie's long-term love walks out on her, Tom's is the much-needed shoulder she cries on.
Название: American Supernatural Tales
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. «American Supernatural Tales» celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and — of course — Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to «Penguin Classics».
Название: Animal Farm
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organized to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. «Animal Farm» — the history of a revolution that went wrong — is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.
Название: Annotated Alice
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2001
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This work combines the notes of Gardner's 1960 edition with his 1990 update, More Annotated Alice (not published in the UK), as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's knowledge of the texts. It is illustrated with John Tenniel's classic art and recently-discovered pencil sketches.
Название: Babyville
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship. Julia thinks a baby will help. Maeve is totally allergic to commitment. A one-night-stand results in an unwanted pregnancy. Samantha is besotted with her new-born baby. But how is her husband coping with his suddenly unavailable wife?
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2007
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What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, «The Book of Dave» is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.
Название: Burning Bright: A Play In Story Form
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2001
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Such is the strength of Joe Saul's longing for a child, that he feels he is cursed after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His young wife secretly conceives the child of another man and when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever.
Название: A Clockwork Orange
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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»Penguin Decades» bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Anthony Burgess' «A Clockwork Orange» was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex — whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven's Ninth and ultra-violence — as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state's sinister apparatus.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Provides simple and accessible recipes for your family and any guests you might have round for dinner. This work includes information on the equipment that you should have in your kitchen, advice on how to recognize and cook loads of different cuts of meat, as well as on how to get the best value and quality when you're out shopping.
Название: The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2000
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Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, a community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recriminations that develops, men denounce their neighbours and truth is perverted by superstition.
Название: The Death of King Arthur
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1975
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A 13th-century French version of the Camelot legend, writen by an unknown author. It depicts a Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity distress King Arthur, leaving him no match for the machinations of Sir Mordred.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian. This book reveals the precise role of the Service in twentieth-century British history, since its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 to root out 'the spies of the Kaiser'.
