Olga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China trade changed forever, when, at seventeen, Olga joined her brothers in their...
В серии Penguin Popular Classics вышли самые известные произведения классика английской литературы Чарльза Диккенса: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, A Christmas...
Oliver Twist is one of Dickens\'s most enduringly popular novels. Oliver Twist, a meek, mild young boy, is born in the workhouse and spends his early years there until, finding the audacity to ask for more food, he...
On Her Majesty`s Secret Service
‘If there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl …’ From the moment he first meets Teresa di Vicenzo – a reckless playgirl with a love of fast cars and danger –...
Jeremy Paxman is used to making politicians explain themselves - but royalty has always been off limits. Until now. In "On Royalty" he delves deep into the past and takes a long hard look at our present incumbents to...
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now...
When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have
One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey`s One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable...
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez, G.G.(PMC)
`Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.` Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their...
For generations now, Edward `s "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In...
"So will I turn her virtue into pitch And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all". As an incarnation of evil and a catalyst of jealousy, vengeance and murder, Iago is the mainspring of...
Other Stories and Other Stories
Short story collection first published by Granta in 1999.
