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Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Die Erstausgabe erschien im Jahr 1811. Jane Austen erzählt die Geschichte der beiden Schwestern Elinor und Marianne. Elinor verkörpert Verstand, Selbstbeherrschung und Taktgefühl, Marianne hingegen Impuls…

George Orwell

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon.George Bowl…

J. R. Moehringer

The Tender Bar

The New York Times bestseller and one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club , a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving t…

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be published in Penguin Modern Classics.

J. G. Ballard

Super-Cannes

Paul Sinclair begleitet seine Frau Jane nach Südfrankreich, die als Ärztin in Eden-Olympia, bei Cannes, arbeiten wird. Die moderne Ausstattung dort ist ein Paradies für die Beschäftigten. Dann dieser Scho…

Victor Hugo

Notre-Dame de Paris

Georges Simenon

L'Amie de Madame Maigret

"Könnten Sie kurz auf meine Kleine aufpassen?" Madame Maigret, die Kinder über alles liebt, tut der unbekannten Dame gerne den Gefallen. Allerdings ist sie erstaunt, als sie mit der Kleinen sitzengelassen…

Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves

Als der Pulitzer-Preisträger Will Navidson mit seiner Frau und den beiden Kindern in das Haus zieht, ahnt er nicht, wie hier sein Leben aus den Fugen geraten wird. Ganz beiläufig filmt er die alltäglichen…

Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregor…

T. C. Boyle

Water Music

Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa.

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day…

Philip Roth

American Pastoral

'Marvellous...raging and elegiac' James Wood, Guardian In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, …

Christopher Isherwood

The Berlin Novels

Two acclaimed novels based on Isherwood's experiences in pre-war Berlin, together in one volume MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the en…

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate …

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

Charles Bukowski

Post Office

Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukow…

Robert Harris

Pompeii

Harris nimmt seine Leser diesmal mit in die Antike. Beim Versuch, ein defektes Aquädukt zu reparieren, kommt der Ingenieur Attilius einer Katastrophe auf die Spur, die selbst das Römische Reich nicht verh…

Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Earth

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity…