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Classic Summer Stories

Boats, beaches, magic, mysteries and more abound in this sun-drenched collection of summer stories.Two strangers embark on a feverish, dreamlike encounter abroad in Algernon Blackwood's 'The Olive'. A man…

Francis Monkman

Classical Concussion / Predictions

Depeche Mode

Remixes 81>04

Fast 25 Jahre haben Dave Gahan, Martin Gore und Andy Fletcher aka Depeche Mode wegweisende Musik hervorgebracht, die ganze Musikergenerationen beeinflusste.Seit Anbeginn der Remix-Culture bildete die Band…

Irmgard Keun

Nach Mitternacht

<<Der beste satirische Roman über Nazideutschland>> Arthur KoestlerFrankfurt, 1936: Menschenmassen strömen auf den Opernplatz und warten auf den Besuch Hitlers. Mittendrin und doch abseits ver…

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales

Enjoy these classic tales of mermaids, princesses, ducklings, and dancing shoes from master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including "T…

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Country of the Pointed Firs

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants inste…

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Clas…

Knut Hamsun,

Victoria

'Fragt einer, was die Liebe sei, so ist sie nichts als ein Wind, der in den Rosen rauscht und sich dann wieder legt. Oft aber ist sie auch wie ein unaufbrechbares Siegel, das ein Leben lang hält, bis zum …

Charles Maturin

Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, going on to become a clergyman and writer of Gothic novels and plays. At first a failure, his work was nonetheless no…

William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine

A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includesNova Express and The Ticket That Exploded . The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual …

D. H. Lawrence

Odour of Chrysanthemums

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This 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 com…

Tove Ditlevsen

The Umbrella

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only…

Stefan Zweig,

Chess

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMy delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my w…

Franz Kafka,

Metamorphosis

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebratin…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifyi…

Heinrich Steinfest

Sprung ins Leere

Das Leben als Sprung ins Leere, die Kunst als Täuschung und ZufluchtsortKlara Ingold arbeitet im Kunsthistorischen Museum in Wien. Sie ist beseelt von einer tiefen Liebe zu den Gemälden. Deshalb interessi…

Irmgard Keun

Nach Mitternacht

Irmgard Keuns Klassiker der deutschen ExilliteraturFrankfurt, 1936: Menschenmassen strömen auf den Opernplatz und warten auf den Besuch Hitlers. Mittendrin und doch abseits verfolgt die 19-jährige Susanne…

Thomas Mann

Herr und Hund

Eine der schönsten Erzählungen Thomas MannsIn seinem berühmten 'Idyll' aus dem Jahr 1919 erzählt Thomas Mann von den täglichen Spaziergängen mit seinem deutschen Hühnerhund Bauschan in der Umgebung des Mü…

Henry Miller

Nexus

The scandalous autobiographical trilogy, which was banned for 30 years in the US and the UK, published for the first time in "Penguin Modern Classics", with innovative covers.