'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
IN LISBON IN 1904 a man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artefact that - if he can find it - would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, Tomás sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery of his own, and is drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator seeks refuge in his ancestral village in Northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old adventure will come to its stirring conclusion. A quest through the twentieth century, The High Mountains of Portugal tells a tale of great love and great loss. Written with all the warmth, wit and colour one would expect from the author of Life of Pi, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century - and through the human heart.
Se Elizabeth Bennet avesse dovuto lavare le proprie sottogonne, Sarah pensava spesso, sarebbe stata probabilmente molto più attenta. In questa irresistibile risposta immaginata a "Orgoglio e Pregiudizio", i servitori sono al centro della scena. Sarah, la giovane domestica orfana, trascorre le sue giornate a lavare la biancheria, lucidare i pavimenti e svuotare i vasi da notte per la famiglia Bennet. Ma c'è altrettanto romanticismo, dolore e intrigo nei sotterranei di Longbourn quanto nei piani superiori. Quando un misterioso nuovo cameriere arriva, l'ordinato regno della sala dei servitori rischia di essere completamente, forse irrevocabilmente, sconvolto. Jo Baker ci porta oltre i salotti del classico di Jane Austen, nel dominio spesso trascurato della severa governante e della sognante serva di cucina, nei dettagli quotidiani affrontati dalle classi inferiori nella Inghilterra regency durante le guerre napoleoniche, creando così un mondo vivido, affascinante e completamente realizzato che è interamente suo.
A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna
In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Reissued as standalone books for the first time in many years, these are B. S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels.
Michael e Pauline sembrano una coppia perfetta: giovani, innamorati, in sintonia l'uno con l'altra. Si incontrano per la prima volta a Baltimora nel dicembre del 1941 e decidono di sposarsi durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. La loro vita prosegue serenamente, nonostante le diversità di carattere che emergono gradualmente negli anni. Il matrimonio li accompagna fino alla vecchiaia e sembrerebbe ormai al riparo da ogni intemperie, fino al giorno in cui tutto precipita...
Reissued to mark the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima, The AshGarden is a searing novel of three lives shattered by war, from a writer TheGlobe and Mail called "Canada’s next great novelist." • Winner of the Japan-Canada • A Globe100 Best Book of 2001 • Finalist for the 2003 IMPAC Award; the Amazon.com/Books in Canada FirstNovel Award; the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region)
Exhilerating...irreverent, and extremely funny,"- "Ms," Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union-"2 " FEMALE SYMBOL]" seek flatmate. No bigots."-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A poignant, funny, and sharply insightful coming-of-age story, Stir-fry is a lesbian novel that explores the conundrum of desire arising in the midst of friendship and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and nonpossessiveness. Emma Donoghue is the author of the forthcoming "Slammerkin, Hood" "and Kissing the Witch" . Born in Dublin, she now lives in Ontario, Canada. "Stir-fry" was her first novel. Also Available by Emma Donoghue "Hood" TP 11.95, 1-55583-453-1 CUSA
For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain - one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, profitable, and homely. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule are about to end, and the British government is about to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty and Bunt can see China from their parlor, but they have never been there. They detest Chinese food. "The Chinese take-away, " as they call the Hand-over, does not particularly concern them. When Bunt first meets Mr. Hung, a well-spoken gentleman from the Chinese mainland, he pays him little heed. And when Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business - a fifty-year-old textile factory, Imperial Stitching, that was cofounded by Bunt's late father - Bunt refuses him out of hand. Yet it soon grows clear that Mr. Hung is different from the Chinese the Mullards have lived alongside for years. For Mr. Hung will accept no refusals. Then a young woman from the Mullards' factory vanishes, one of many disappearances. But this one is different. Ah Fu has last been seen in the company of Mr. Hung. And so Bunt is forced for the first time in his forty-three years to make decisions that matter. He even begins, maybe, to discover love. Yet against all of Bunt's good, if half-formed, intentions are pitted the will of Mr. Hung and the looming threat of the ultimate betrayal.
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.
Anni Novanta: ai responsabili dello spionaggio internazionale tocca affrontare nuove sfide. Non più la guerra fredda, ma il terrorismo internazionale, i cartelli della droga, i moderni arsenali militari. Questo è quanto deve affrontare Sam McCready, il Simulatore, preposto all'Ufficio Simulazione del SIS inglese. Dalla Germania dell'est alla Libia di Gheddafi, da Cipro alle isole caraibiche, il Simulatore verrà a contatto con le nuove tecniche dello spionaggio scientifico, lo spionaggio del futuro.
A successful career woman living in Sliver, a glittering Manhattan high-rise, discovers that someone is watching her every move. By the author of Rosemary's Baby. Reprint. Movie tie-in.
