"The Alchemist" charts the enchanting story of Santiago, a young shepherd boy in the hills of Andalucia who believes that there is more to life than his humble home and fl...
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the s...
When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia, and marriage. R...
Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surp...
This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Apart from...
Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's atwenty-five-year-old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbeli...
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches ga...
A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?
When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doe...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terr...
Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader-she is Paul's nurse, tending hi...
Эрнест Миллер Хемингуэй (1899-1961)- известный американский и писатель, обладатель Пулитцеровской (1953) и Нобелевской (1954) премий.
"По ком звонит колокол" - один из лу...
Kurt Vonnegut's work starts, I'd suggest, from the axiom that the twentieth century he'd lived through was a time of such extremity that it can only be responded to with s...
The Collector's Library presents the great works of literature in a handsome, hardback format. The books are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and...
One Thursday lunchtime, the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. It's the final straw for Arthur Dent, who has already had his house...
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. Л Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productiv...
Brought up by wolves among the unforgettable characters of the jungle, Bagheera the black panther, and Baloo the bear who teaches him the law of the jungle, Mowgli grows u...
One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most im...
Three Men in a Boat
There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The ...