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Retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers.

Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.

A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.

Intends to satirize modern society in a poetic story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.

A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind".

A collection of vivid and lyrical tales by the nineteenth-century French novelist celebrates his beloved region of Provence

Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.

A collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.

Presents a collection of thirty of the author's classic tales, including "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Snow Queen."

An old French peasant, Fouan, divides his farmland among his three children, only to be astonished by their ingratitude and greed

Presents poetry drawn from the author's experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps.

Presents the author's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship.

Features two affecting short stories that combine the fantastical with the allegorical. This book includes "The Machine Stops" and "A Celestial Omnibus".

《Silent Spring》被譽為20世紀最具影響力的著作之一。Rachel Carson以嚴謹的科學觀察揭露化學農藥對自然生態與人類健康的破壞，引發全球對環境保護的覺醒。儘管出版初期遭受化學工業的強烈攻擊與輿論抹黑，Carson仍以堅定信念喚起世人對生態平衡的重視。本書促成DDT等有害農藥的禁用，也奠定現代環保運動的基礎。本版收錄Lord Shackleton序、Julian Huxley前言與傳記作家Linda Lear後記，完整呈現此書的時代意義。亮點：・啟發全球環保意識的經典之作。・揭示人類行為對生態的深遠影響。・新增序與後記，重現Carson的堅毅與遠見。Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were ba

One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics. The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine.It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann's, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition. Since the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English. This translation brings to th

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workHenry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.

Containing more than a hundred poems, accompanied by original photographs, and spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book focuses on the sprawling oeuvre.

Recounts author's experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. This book draws openly and revealingly on author's own life.

'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.'

Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.

'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition,

Written in inimitable, magical prose, these sixty-five stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays

Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. Volume Two takes t

'Desperate-minded villain!'Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin

Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.

Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution, Siddhartha, includes a new introduction by bestselling author Paulo Coehlo in Penguin Classics. Siddhartha is perhaps the mos

Collects the stories that combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classic

'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy,

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, t

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, t

Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, in their new all-buttercup-yellow stripe, start it by ravaging the Fenland League and end it with a phenomenal nail-biter against Glasgow Rangers.

The essential writings of the 20th century’s most influential economist, collected in one volumeToday, John Maynard Keynes is best remembered for his pioneering development of macroeconomics, and for

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile clo

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile clo

Contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre. This book provides a separate introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, ta

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion

A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses