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Clockwork Orange

Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn`t just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven`s Ninth. He and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself...

East of Eden

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact...

Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism

Lolita (Penguin Classics)

Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Любовь во время Холеры (Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес) /Книги на английском языке

Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace...

Meditations

`Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad` Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without...

Stories of English

How did a language originally spoken by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million people? How have all the different versions of English evolved and changed? In this compelling global...

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

1939: Countdown to War

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. If they don`t, world war will result. In this...

1984 - Nineteen Eighty-four (OM)

Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology,...

20000 Leagues Under the Sea

J. Verne

A mysterious creature, larger and more rapid than a whale, has been haunting the deep: Professor Aronnax has been invited to join a task force to rid the seas of the monster. With him on the Abraham Lincoln are his...

23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism

In "23 Things They Don`t Tell You About Capitalism" one of today`s most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in. There`s no such thing as a `free` market. Globalization isn`t making...

31 Dream Street

Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting ... and Leah has been itching to peek behind the front door of Toby`s eccentric house, always packed to the rafters with weird and...

31 Songs

N. Hornby

31 Songs

Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tell us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces - refreshingly free of pretension - are a celebration of the joy that...

A Christmas Carol + Audio CD

C. Dickens

The classic tale by Charles Dickens of tight-fisted, cold-hearted Scrooge who undergoes a transformation at Christmas.

A Clergymans Daughter’

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confession and Other Religious Writing

Tolstoy`s passionate and iconoclastic writings - on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality - reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection...

A Death in the Family

A Discourse on Inequality

A Good Man in Africa

A Grain of Wheat

A Handful of Dust. Горсть пыли

After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite...

A Happy Death