Penguin Books Ltd: 3539 books

Cover of Restoration

Restoration

Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685

by Tim Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006

The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession...
Cover of The Shearer's Colt
by Banjo Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009

A CLASSIC HORSERACING TALE FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGEND Banjo Paterson is best remembered for his brilliant Australian bush poetry, but no less engaging are his warm and funny novels about Australian life. The Shearer's Colt is the story of Hilton Fitzroy, an upper-class Londoner trying to find his feet...
Cover of Old Man Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed...
Cover of Master and Man and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father...
Cover of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008

This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.
Cover of The Cossacks and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes...
Cover of Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004

Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to...
Cover of Henry VIII
by William Shakespeare, Catherine M. S. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006

Conspiracies and intrigue are rife in the court of Henry VIII as a Duke is executed for treason, having been tricked by the Cardinal. And when the King falls in love with Anne Bullen and decides to divorce his wife, he causes an irrevocable rift with the Catholic Church. After the King's secret marriage...
Cover of Jacob's Room
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions:...
Cover of Plain Words
by Rebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

'Be short, be simple, be human.' When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print. Six...
Cover of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, Carol Rutter
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth...
Cover of Bel-ami
by Guy Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1975

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues,...
Cover of Nana
by Émile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1973

Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try...
Cover of The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission,...
First 89 90 91 92 93 94 9596 97 98 99 100
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy