`I have nothing to declare,` Wilde once told an American customs official, `except my genius.` A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great...
Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him. Panicking, Prime Minister...
When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero`s doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one...
Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the...
That`s what it seems like Garrett has committed himself to when Blake Peters calls in some overdue favors. Someone is trying to kill Peters`s boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and...
In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the...
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag`s groundbreaking...
Morris Gleitzman is one of Australia`s bestselling authors. Once is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied...
One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ned)
Solzhenitsyn`s first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of...
Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets...
Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the...
Atlantis lies between Europe and the east coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity has lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to...
A novel about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death.
Filled with characters and Earthsea lore from Le Guin`s previous novels, this new story introduces a sorcerer
The agent: Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she`s jumped into bed with her married boss, Mark... The bestseller: Jojo`s sweet-natured client Lily`s first novel is...
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian...
Oxford New Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
Previous ed. published under the title: The Oxford American desk dictionary and thesaurus.
Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 3)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Blood Brothers" and "The Hollow" — the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women who join forces — and hearts — to battle the ultimate evil.
Paradise Lost is the greatest work of one of the most acclaimed poets in English literature. It has had a profound influence on Western culture, and has attracted a vast amount of critical commentary of every sort....
