Penguin Books

Pigs Have Wings

P.G. Wodehouse

Pillars of the Earth (MM)

A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic - a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral-stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping...

Pillow Book (B)

The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, "The Pillow Book" offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility...

Pity of War: 1914-1918

More than any other event, World War I made the 20th century what it has been. Now as the 20th century draws to a close, 80 years after the armistice of 11 November 1918, the time is right for a radical reassessment...

Plague Ship

For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering...

Plain Tales from the Hills

R. Kipling

Playing Away

Connie has been happily married for a year. She`s just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He`s a walking stag weekend. He`s a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is...

Plays

As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and...

Pnin

Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination...

Pnin. Пнин

Nabokov`s comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex...

Poems and Exiles

Poems and Readings for Weddings

Poetry of the Romantics

Poor Folk and Other Stories

Dostoyevsky’s first great literary triumph, the novella Poor Folk is presented here, along with “The Landlady,” “Mr. Prokharchin,” and “Polzunkov.”

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, psychedelia, Bob Dylan, underground film-making - and at its centre in New York was Andy Warhol. His studio, the Manhattan loft known as the Factory, was the hub of...

Port It, Starboard Home

Can it really be true that `golf` stands for `Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden`? Or that `rule of thumb` comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his...

Portrait of a Lady

H. James

Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and...

Portrait of the Artist

J. Joyce

Praise of Folly

Presidents: American Presidency TPB

In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world`s greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the...

Pride and Prejudice

Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to...

Pride and Prejudice

J. Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" The opening of Jane Austen`s ever - popular novel sets the tone of her sparkling comedy of manners...

Pride and Prejudice (Clothbound Classics) HB ***

Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is...

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the crème de la...

Public Enemies: The True Story of America`s Greatest Crime Wave (film tie-in)

In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks...