penguin publishing group apr 2006 (13 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, The Wind in the Willows is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misadventures of the book's intrepid quartet of heroesMole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toadraise fantasy to the level of myth. Reflecting the freshness of childhood wonder, the story still offers adults endless sophistication, substance, and depth. The animals' world embodies the author's wry, whimsical, and unfailingly inventive imagination. It is a world that succeeding generations of both adult and young readers have found irresistible. But why say more To use the words of the estimable Mr. Toad himself: 'Travel, change, interest, excitement!.Come inside."With an Introduction by Luanne Rice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jessica Fletcher is in the Berkshires attending a writers' conference at a historic mansion where her friends the Savoys are hosting a murder-mystery party. As both a crime solver and a mystery author, Jessica is an old hand at this kind of thing. So she swears to the Savoys that she won't reveal the secrets of their play and goes about enjoying the weekend with her colleagues.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Follow four of today's most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldly suspense.Beginning with 'Haunted in Death,' a tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas-this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passions of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday?

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Former small town police chief turned CIA Special Agent Holly Barker tracks a dangerously clever killer in this explosive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.When his plane exploded off the coast of Maine, authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Fay the ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport. But now they ve found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and up to his old tricks. Now working for the CIA, ex-chief-of-police Holly Barker joins the elite task force tracking Fay in New York City. As he begins to pick off America s enemies one by one, Holly unexpectedly finds herself face-to-face with the killer, kick-starting a high-speed chase through the canyons of midtown Manhattan, the Metropolitan Opera house, Central Park, and the United Nations Plaza, all to prevent another assassination before Fay disappears again maybe this time for good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A female vampire slayer proves as seductive-and mysterious-as the night dwellers she stalks in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.For as long as she can remember, Natalya has been fighting demons: first in the form of childhood nightmares, then later, immortal creatures that kill and prey on the innocent-including her own twin brother. Whether Carpathian or vampire, she slays those who murder by night, and has no equal-until she is seduced by the very thing she considers her enemy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES!The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger takes readers on an electrifying ride in this thriller that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia-where one mistake can change your life forever.One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's cell phone to shatter Matt's life a second time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 BC. Whether describing the would-be dictators Marius and Sulla, the battle between Crassus and Spartacus, the death of political idealist Crato, Julius Caesar's harrowing triumph in Gaul or the eloquent oratory of Cicero, all offer a fascinating insight into an empire wracked by political divisions. Deeply influential on Shakespeare and many other later writers, they continue to fascinate today with their exploration of corruption, decadence and the struggle for ultimate power.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from "the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of" (Los Angeles Times)?now thoroughly revised and updatedEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A BiographyA Penguin ClassicWriting obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (18881935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three "heteronyms"?Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos?alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa's major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss's now classic #1 'New York Times' bestseller 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty. In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he sketch in the streets like a painter but with words. In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem sketches in small not Elektronisches Buch that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story or travelogue appears, complete in itself.In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch not Elektronisches Buch he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches. Published for the first time, this work offers a detailed portrait of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Nilsen, Anders (illustrator). Neuware - Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales-with an anarchic twist-but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as 'The Tinderbox' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes' through poignant masterpieces such as 'The Little Mermaid' and 'The Ugly Duckling,' to more subversive later tales such as 'The Ice maiden' and 'The Wood Nymph.'.