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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 144 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. Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 127 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming down from a clear sky on to the little barrows piled high with fruit and vegetables'In these three tales of deception, set in and around Paris, Simenon's celebrated detective uncovers chilling truths about the depths of the human instinct for self-preservation.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 127 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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 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 Books'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth's deep past.Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as 'Lovecraft's single greatest achievement in fiction'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 109 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 -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksFollowing the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons. Arthur Schnitzler's tumultuous psychodrama remains as startling now as it did on first publication.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThis small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a compressed, rich sense of Lawrence's wonderful prose style, precision of language and expansive vision of the human struggle and how it can be transcended. Is 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' perhaps the greatest of all English short stories Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 98 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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 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!'Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 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 BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain - sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, beware the Lady Bandit, whose strong, rough hands might grab your neck, and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze . . .Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 131 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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Milo Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Milo is overwhelmed with worries - about his virginity, his love for the conductor, and ongoing scandals in the stationmaster's office - besides which the idea of fighting the Germans seems a simple affair. Poignant, humorous and the inspiration behind the 1966 Academy Award-winning film, this is a small masterpiece from one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 95 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; 'that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that idiot belief in luck'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 144 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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 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'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.' In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise - or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal. We follow him on a series of high-stakes adventures, from ingenious heists of invaluable paintings to daring escapes, each one showcasing his intellect, charm, and extraordinary ability to stay one step ahead of the law.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksDuring his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Queen of Scots is a scandalously wronged victim, Elizabeth I is a wicked villain and most historical facts and dates are cheerfully disregarded. It is accompanied here by other riotous early pieces in which young women steal money, escape from prison, agree to marry two men at once, faint and repeatedly 'run mad'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 114 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'What does love fear Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love or sex but by sensation and experiment, he seeks to make the object of his desire desire him - and then to retreat. At once a captivating story and philosophical exploration of existence's entanglements, The Seducer's Diary is also an excoriating reconstruction of Kierkegaard's own romantic failures.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 163 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I must die. But must I die bawling 'What does it mean to live a virtuous life How can we rise above pain and anguish In these teachings from Book 1 of his Discourses, ancient philosopher Epictetus outlines a practical approach to Stoicism that has inspired thinkers for centuries, from Marcus Aurelius to Theodore Roosevelt, offering enduring wisdom on resilience, virtue and the pursuit of meaning.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including the newly discovered 'Gibbet Hill'. From 'Dracula's Guest', thought by many to be the original excised opening of Dracula itself, to the sinister 'The Judge's House,' each gripping story will leave you breathless, perhaps afraid to turn out the lights. Dare you explore the darkness Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 115 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 148 pp. Englisch.