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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMany years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly.Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen were inspired by his own life as an outsider. From 'The Little Mermaid' to 'The Red Shoes', his fables show the ugliest of humanity - its power, greed, vanity - but also how suffering can lead to beauty.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in this volume is Sylvie, his haunting novella of love and memory, the 'masterpiece' that inspired Proust to write In Search of Lost Time. Together, these works by the French poet, visionary and pioneering modernist are a testament to the power of jewelled thinking, and an inspiration for flaneurs and romantics everywhere.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNo author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected - take us into a world that is shocking, funny and always has a sinister edge. What if plants could feel pain What kind of father would bet his daughter in a wager And what is the secret behind that delicious lamb dinner. Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 127 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 103 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé.These affecting vignettes follow Condé's early encounters with love, grief, friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and as a student in Paris.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 122 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I am Black because I come from the earth's insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplicity. Mournful, celebratory, politically conscious, this early collection is a testament to Lorde's beloved and hugely influential lyric voice, which faithfully captures the complex interiority of the self. These timeless poems resonate down the years.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.' Gertrude Stein's Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein's life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed robbery. Selected here are some of his best stories - from a satirical tale about a student bet that purportedly disproves the existence of racism in Los Angeles to a chilling drama in which a snake invades a family home.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged two newly independent nations. Powerful, piercing and deeply moving, Manto's works are key to understanding this bloody chapter in South Asian history.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog In Mikhail Bulgakov's topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official, in other words. This rude, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union, banned immediately on publication, is satire red in tooth and claw.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell's witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes: Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality and being incredibly rude. Though he rises to a position of power in the heavenly bureaucracy, Monkey King's arrogant exploits attract the attention of the Buddha - with very unfortunate consequences.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 103 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOf course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit.A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the animals talking, a young man turns into a mountain and a bird guides a boy to another planet in this selection of dream-like and visionary fairy tales from the great German-Swiss master.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 123 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Under bare Ben Bulben's headIn Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.An ancestor was rector thereLong years ago, a church stands near,By the road an ancient cross.No marble, no conventional phrase;On limestone quarried near the spotBy his command these words are cut:Cast a cold eyeOn life, on death.Horseman, pass by!'Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 93 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your - buried treasure The light in the heart.''In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beautiful, strange and pioneering, each piece is a small precious stone to be held to the light and savoured.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 125 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRazor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From the political power of silence to the irrepressible spirit of a pig he met while working in a commune, these reflections on life and literature in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution provide a rare glimpse of a fearless satirical genius.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNo thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present oneUnfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell's essays are masterpieces of plain English prose. This stirring new collection brings together his most cherished pieces with lesser-known gems, ranging over everything from tree planting to living with the atom bomb, sleeping rough to the perils of getting what you want in politics.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing. Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 91 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 73 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Journey into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure 'The Seventh Voyage' are reminiscent of Douglas Adams, while the spectral whispers haunting Pirx the Pilot as he navigates his spaceship to Mars in 'Terminus', echo the author's masterpiece Solaris. Then 'The Mask' introduces a perfect robot assassin and asks, can AI fall in love or refuse its programming What if the target of its affections is also its prey Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 165 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKnown as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our surroundings. The Genius brings together some of his very best stories, often told from the perspective of young children and forming a revealing portrait of coming of age in postwar Ireland. Humorous and poignant in equal parts, these stories are a lesson in craft from a celebrated, prolific author.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 129 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI am not a man, I am dynamiteWeeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A summary of his life's work as a philosopher, with chapter headings including 'Why I Am So Wise' and 'Why I Write Such Good Books', it is part mocking self-judgement and part battle cry, and remains one of the most singular, strange examples of the genre ever written.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.'From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bustling streets of Marseille, each of these essays offers a compelling journey into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 83 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 133 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Why should I bother to invent things My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale'In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless sycophants, Lady L. is celebrating her eightieth birthday. But as the guests disperse, she feels the undeniable pull of a mysterious pavilion in the lush grounds, and the terrible secret she buried there many years ago . . .Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 142 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksFabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry's soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author's beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry's meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 130 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals. But then something goes appallingly wrong. This is one of Aira's great works, filled with his baffling ability to veer between grandeur and absurdity. Each page fails to provide clues as to what lies in wait for the reader on the next.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 102 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Collecting two of his most celebrated works - Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry - a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos - here lie the sharpest fruits of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century: the Nobel Laureate who narrates the rise and fall of nations, who 'voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë's heart-rending poems, we uncover a soul unafraid to confront mortality, tragedy and the wild cruelty - and beauty - of nature. These verses capture her profound passion and indomitable spirit, plumbing the depths of the human heart and revealing the raw power of Brontë's poetic genius.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 111 pp. Englisch.