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Первоначально опубликованный в период расцвета могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна закатилась" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожащие истины как о войне, так и о человеческой природе • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

Первоначально опубликованный в зените могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна зашла" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожные истины как о войне, так и о природе человека • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

"Море - мой брат" - самый первый роман Джека Керуака, написанный вскоре после его службы моряком торгового флота в 1942 году. Утраченная при его жизни, она представляет собой яркий портрет дружбы и братства и размышление о желании сбежать от общества, следуя за судьбами двух мужчин, которые импульсивно решают отрабатывать свой проезд на пароходе "Вестминстер": пьют, спорят, играют в карты, уворачиваются от торпед и созерцают необъятную, ужасную красоту о море. Опубликованное вместе с фрагментами ранних рассказов и писем, это интуитивное произведение дает уникальное представление о молодом Керуаке и становлении его гения • Книга на английском языке • The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942

When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. 'His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. 'Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,' wrote The Sun • Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting the players' homes and witnessing the dressing-room confrontations. In the modern era of painstaking media management and tight security, no sportswriter will ever again be granted such unprecedented access

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818-1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист • В сборнике "Ночь вокруг меня" представлены некоторые из ее самых необычных стихотворений • Книга на английском языке • '... ever-present, phantom thing • My slave, my comrade, and my king' • Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe

Secrets can kill • Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home • Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182 • What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone? • Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away

'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' • Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery but tragedy: a simple blunder at a dance from which disaster grows, ruining lives with his weak, foolish pity • Impatience of the Heart is Stefan Zweig's greatest novel, fiercely capturing human emotions in all their subtleties and extremes - while Hofmiller, his unforgettable, naive creation, misunderstands everything, resulting in his downfall

The material world is itself emptiness • Emptiness is itself the material world • Powerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to contain the condensed essence of all Buddhist wisdom. This brief poem on emptiness has exerted immense influence throughout Asia since the seventh century and is woven into the fabric of daily life. Yet even though it rivals the teachings of Laozi and Confucius in importance, this ancient Buddhist scripture remains barely known in the West • During the many years he has spent living in Japan, Alex Kerr has been on a quest after the secrets of the Heart Sutra. Travelling from Japan, Korea, and China, to India, Mongolia, Tibet and Vietnam, this book brings together Buddhist teaching, talks with friends and mentors, and acute cultural insights to probe the universe of thought contained within this short but intense philosophical work

The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics • "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." • Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love • So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel • High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time • The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook's heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home • Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Civil unrest is making itself felt, stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world

The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls • London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it