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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta ...
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt' In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declara...
The Brothers Karamazov
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha...
How I Live Now: Popular Penguins
This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy. Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own...
What Am I Doing Here?
''What Am I Doing Here?'(the question Rimbaud asked in Ethiopia), because it is more ragged than anything else he wrote, tells us more about Bruce Chatwin himself - his interests and friends, if not his passions. He writes of his father, of his friend...Howard Hodgkin, and his tete-a-tetes with Andre Ma...
On Natural Selection: Popular Penguins
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you th...
Seven Little Australians: Popular Penguins
Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule. Step inside and meet them all - dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and ...
Despair
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us int...
Aspects of the Novel
E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass
Sponsored by Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, The Clark Lectures have a long and distinguished history and have featured remarks by some of England's most important literary minds: Leslie Stephen, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, William Epsom, and I. A. Richards. All have given celebrated and ...
Pudding in Peril (Vet Cadets #2)
Abbey, Hannah and Talika are new recruits at Willowvale boarding school's special Vet Cadets program. This term, it's all about cattle. Abbey is determined to prove herself in a cattle-cutting competition against a nearby boy's boarding school. But when Talika's pony, Pudding, falls dangerously ill, the...
On Grand Strategy
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the "Studies in Grand Strategy" seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its p...
Notes to Self - A Self-Care Journal
A self-care journal that's the ultimate gift to give yourself. Self-care has become a buzzword--and a necessary part of life in our stressful and uncertain times. As this creative, insightful journal demonstrates on every page, self-care is whatever you want it to be. Taking a walk in nature. Me...
Yoga for the Inflexible Male - A How-To Guide
The benefits of yoga--greater strength, flexibility, and presence of mind--are for anyone, no matter their skill level. But most classes don't feel that way if you're a first-timer--or an inflexible male. Enter Yoga for the Inflexible Male, a welcoming and humorous guide for people of all stripes that g...
Master of the Game - Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Twenty-two years have elapsed since th...
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An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form. A man grows tired of his open-plan office and builds a fort made of stationery. A woman's euphoria at finally achieving Desktop Zero is quickly replaced with despair. A group of c...
Rejected Books: The Most Unpublishable Books of All Time
GRAHAM JOHNSON AND ROB HIBBERT
A collection of forty hilariously unrealistic, totally ridiculous covers for books that will never, ever be published - from the authors of Images You Should Not Masturbate To. This collection of imagined book covers will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud with every page turn. Though P...
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