Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. It is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humour.
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." -Zadie Smith§§One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years-due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist-Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.§
Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue.
La primera novela de Camilo José Cela, hito en la literatura española de la posguerra. La familia de Pascual Duarte vio la luz en 1942 y tuvo un enorme impacto en el panorama literario español del momento. Primer libro de Camilo José Cela, supuso un valioso punto de partida para la narrativa española de posguerra. La vida trágica de su arquetípico protagonista, gobernada por la más salvaje violencia, era un comentario indirecto sobre la barbarie padecida por los españoles durante la recién concluida Guerra Civil, al tiempo que daba carta de naturaleza a una tendencia literaria renovadora, luego conocida como «tremendismo». La crítica ha dicho:«La tremenda historia de Pascual Duarte [...] es tan radicalmente humana que no pierde un solo instante el ritmo y la armonía de la verdad.»Gregorio Marañón «La familia de Pascual Duarte(1942) lo puso en órbita de repente. [...] Con palabras duras, metálicas, que venían a caballo de un poderoso ritmo interior, su literatura recuperaba la gran tradición del Siglo de Oro.»Manuel Vicent «Fue el primer aldabonazo serio para conectar con la novela anterior a la guerra civil.»Miguel Delibes
A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse s masterpiece of youthful rebellion with a foreword and cover art by James Franco A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse s widely influential coming-of-age novel. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators."
This new edition celebrates the art and craft of the quintessential story of the Lost Generation. Presented by the Hemingway family with supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library, this edition provides readers with
Can't keep all your gods and goddesses straight? Wondering about mythological references in classic literature? "Bulfinch's Mythology" offers approachable accounts of ancient legends in a compilation of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, banker and Latinist. This volume includes all three of Bulfinch's original titles: "The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, " and "The Legends of Charlemagne." Bulfinch states his purpose for the book clearly: "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature . . . who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation." This compilation was widely used as the authoritative text on mythology in schools for over a century.
Thronfolger Franz Ferdinand wird ermordet und der Erste Weltkrieg beginnt. Auch der Prager Hundehändler Josef Schwejk,obwohl von einem Militärarzt »endgültig für blöd« erklärt, gerät in die Mühlen des Militärbetriebs - ob nun im bürokratischen Irrsinn, beim Oberleutnant Lukasch oder an der Front. Mit kalkulierter und ach so sympathischer Naivität setzt sich Schwejk gegen den Unsinn des Krieges zu Wehr. Der Militärapparat wird in allen Einzelheiten par excellence vorgeführt. Jaroslav HaSek ist mit Schwejk eine einzigartige Figur in der Literatur und eine großartige Satire wider den Militarismus gelungen.
Follow the journey of 11-year-old orphan Anne Shirley as she grows up over the course of these six titles: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside. This beautiful, colo
Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an extreme act of violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan, but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree to a loveless marriage in order to escape the advances of her employer, his disgust for the world becomes unbounded, and his feelings of rebellion and revenge push him closer and closer to the edge of the precipice. A masterpiece of psychological insight, Dostoevsky's 1866 novel features some of its author's most memorable characters - from the temperamental protagonist Raskolnikov to the amoral sensualist Svidrigailov and the immoral lawyer Luzhin. Presented here in a sparkling new translation by Roger Cockerell, Crime and Punishment is a towering work in Russian nineteenth-century fiction and a landmark of world literature.
Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favorites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 color pl
»Selbst dort, wo er zurückblickt, ist es die Gegenwart, die er anspricht.« Wilhelm von Sternburg über Erich Maria Remarque.»Arc de Triomphe« war Remarques zweiter Welterfolg nach »Im Westen nichts Neues«: Mit großer Leidenschaft erzählt Remarque die Geschichte des Arztes Ravic, der nach Paris emigriert und hier den Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges erlebt. Aus Liebe zu zwei Frauen und dem Hass auf einen Gestapo-Agenten entwickelt sich das Drama eines Exilschicksals, in dessen Realität sich der Aufstand gegen den Terror einer ganzen Epoche spiegelt.»Eine Chronik und Liebesrhapsodie, wie die moderne Literatur nur wenige kennt« FAZ
The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppresse
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valor through their impact on the lives of three principal characters: the courageous Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov, and the nobly born beauty Natasha Rostov.
Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Brontes intense masterpiece is one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it. After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word 'rache' - German for revenge - written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face, and the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle. First published in 1887, 'A Study in Scarlet' is the remarkable first-outing of one of literature's most famous partnerships.
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him.
This is a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence; a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich as those imagined by Proust.
Working from the earliest surviving draft of "Frankenstein," Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel--as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley's amendments and contributions.
Hand in Hand with Love is a celebration of queer voices throughout the ages. Spanning from Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this luminous anthology champions and redefines the spectrum of queer poetry.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited by Dr Simon Avery, a specialist in queer history and culture at the University of Westminster.Featuring visionary writers whose only space to express their intimate thoughts was on the page, pioneering poets who battled prejudice to be bold and forthright, and an electrifying range of famous authors such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde, these dynamic voices paved the way for decades to come. Together, they offer a vivid archive of queer identity to be celebrated, discovered and treasured.
This second edition is based on a significantly revised translation by Susan McReynolds. It is accompanied by a detailed introduction, a pronunciation and explanation key for the novel's main characters, and greatly revised and expanded explanatory annotations.
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket, this collection contains The Selfish Giant, a remarkable story of the redemptive power of love.
Considered one of Austen's finest works, this beautiful new edition in the Evergreens series is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated, and includes pictures and an extensive section on Austen's life and works.
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.
Segundo volumen de una colección de cuentos imprescindible.En estevolumen, el lector encontrará todas las colecciones de cuentos deCortázar publicadas entre 1969 y 1982 y, como novedad, aquellosrelatos aparecidos póstumamente en Papeles inesperados (2009) que portítulo o fecha pudieron pertenecer a ellas: Último round, Octaedro,Alguien que anda por ahí, Un tal Lucas, Queremos tanto a Glenda yDeshoras conforman este segundo volumen de los cuentos completoscortazarianos.Rese?as:«La verdadera revolución de Cortázar está en sus cuentos.»Mario Vargas Llosa«De los grandes escritores que he conocido, ninguno, excepto Borges, parecía haber meditado tanto como él sobre elproblema de la forma y el estilo. A este aprendido magisterio que setransmite de escritor a escritor, hay que agregar su propiomagisterio, lo que le debemos y le deberán las generaciones que losiguen.»Abelardo Castillo«No puede desconocerse la influencia de sus textos en buena parte de la narrativa que después de él se escribió enespa?ol.»José Donoso
A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G.'A cavalcade of perfect joy.' - Caitlin Moran'Sunlit perfection... Bask in its warmth and splendour.' - Stephen Fry'The best English comic novelist of the century.' - Sebastian Faulks'The greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness' - Julian Fellowes
Novellen und Erzählungen begleiten das Schaffen Thomas Manns von den ersten Anfängen an. Ob er nun im 'Tod in Venedig' eine moderne Variation des ewigen Themas des platonischen Eros gibt; ob er den Leser mit den 'Vertauschten Köpfen' in die indische Märchenwelt oder mit dem 'Gesetz' in die Zeit des Propheten Moses führt; ob er in 'Schwere Stunde' ein knappes Portrait Schillers zeichnet, in 'Gladius Dei' die Atmosphäre Münchens um die Jahrhundertwende beschwört oder im 'Tristan' von dem wunderlichen Schriftsteller Detlev Spinell erzählt: "Immer ist er mittendrin ganz und gar, und seine leidenschaftliche Versenkung in den Vorgang, die Person, die Seelenlage, sie zieht uns hinein und läßt uns nicht los." (Erich Kahler)
The tenth book in the classic British detective series featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, with a new introduction by bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson.
Celebrated novel involves a handsome young Londoner who sinks into a life of depravity. His body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recent portrait reflects the ravages of his crime and sensuality.
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago When it was first published in 1917, "Growth of the Soil" was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in.
In the old Saxon town of Hamelin, a stranger appears with a magical fife. He promises to rid the town of its rats for the sum of 100 Rhine Ducats. When its desperate citizens agree to hire his services, he plays his fife and lures the rats to the river. But can Hamelin ever be truly void of all its vermin? Viktor Dyk's rendition of the Pied Piper legend masterfully blends lyrical prose with early twentieth century modernist perspective. For over a century, The Ratcatcher has held its own among the great works of Czech literature, but now this classic is introduced to us in English for the first time.
"The Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery." --Jack London. Sinclair's masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened America's eyes to the struggles and horrors many immigrants endured. Welcome to Chicago during the ea
A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl. Incarcerated in the ground, all the initial evidence indicates that she has, quite literally, been scared to death. But as Sara embarks on the autopsy, something even more horrifying comes to light. Something which shocks even Sara. Detective Lena Adams, talented but increasingly troubled, is called in from vacation to help with the investigation - and the trail soon leads to the neighbouring county, an isolated community, and a terrible secret...
The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction. On the far side of darkness lies a world where two mighty forces are making ready for a war of kingdom against kingdom, warrior against witch, and honour against treachery. It is a world that beckons Edward Lessingham and is totally at odds with his Edwardian background. Torn by greater passions than mere mortals can know, the adventure-loving lords of Demonland are pitted against the cruel enchantments of the witch-king Gorice XII. As swords cross with clash of steel, they begin their odyssey in glory and terror. E.R. Eddison's masterpiece stands as one of the great prototypes of modern fantasy fiction. The intricately woven themes of high adventure, sorcery and the conflict between good and evil transport the reader to epic worlds beyond imagination.
Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.
Le premier tome du chef d'œuvre d'Alexandre Dumas. « Je suis fâché de vous avoir aidé dans vos recherches et de vous avoir dit ce que je vous ai dit, fit-il.– Pourquoi cela ? demanda Dantès.– Parce que je vous ai infiltré dans le cœur un sentiment qui n’y était point : la vengeance.»Edmond Dantès, jeune et brillant officier de marine, est sur le point d’épouser la belle Mercédès. Un bonheur qui fait des jaloux. Dénoncé à tort comme bonapartiste, Edmond est victime d’une lâche conspiration et enfermé au château d’If. Après plusieurs années de désespoir, sa rencontre avec un autre prisonnier, l’abbé Faria, va tout changer. Le vieillard lui parle d’évasion et d’un fabuleux trésor ; est-il fou, ou est-ce une chance inespérée de se venger de ceux qui ont précipité sa chute ?"La plus célèbre histoire d'évasion (...) Aujourd'hui encore, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo reste un récit d'aventures exaltant." RTLAlexandre Dumas (1802-1870) est l’auteur qui donne aux Français le goût de l’Histoire depuis bientôt deux siècles. De la cour des Valois à la Restauration, ses intrigues restent de grands succès populaires et ses personnages ont marqué durablement notre littérature. Ses ouvrages sont traduits dans le monde entier.
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, AND SIR ORFEOTHREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKIENIt's Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won't begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court's wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table: he will allow any of the knights to strike him once, with a battle-axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence.Arthur's brave favorite for the challenge is Sir GawainAccompanying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this book are Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and Pearl, the moving tale of a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world.Interpreted in a form designed to appeal to the general reader, J.R.R. Tolkien's vivid translations of these classic poems represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.This beautifully decorated text includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.
Literally meaning "heart," the Japanese word "kokoro" can be more distinctly translated as "the heart of things" or "feeling." Natsume Soseki's 1914 novel, which was originally published in serial format in a Japanese newspaper, "Kokoro" deals with the
In the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory - a thirty-something English teak dealer - leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat community, and deriving some comfort only from his conversations with an Indian friend, Doctor Veraswami, and the attentions of his local mistress. His prospects seem to improve when he meets the orphaned niece of a timber merchant, Elizabeth Lackersteen, who appears to reciprocate his feelings of love - but the arrival on the scene of another suitor, the boorish police officer Verrall, and the scheming of a disgruntled local magistrate threaten to shatter Flory's dreams and put him on a path to tragedy. Based on the author's own experiences in Burma as a young officer in the Indian Imperial Police, Burmese Days - here presented in the version published in Britain in 1944, which follows the text of its first American edition - is George Orwell's debut novel, invaluable both as a faithful description of life in Burma during the twilight of the British Raj and as an expose of the failings of colonial rule.
One of the best sea novels ever written, "The Sea-Wolf" tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Also in this volume are the stories "The Law of Life," "The One Thousand Dozen," "All Gold Canyon," and "Moon-Face." Includes a new Introduction and an Afterword written by award-winning author Bova. Revised reissue.
