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J. R. Moehringer

The Tender Bar

The New York Times bestseller and one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club , a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving t…

Victor Hugo

Notre-Dame de Paris

George Orwell

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bo…

Georges Simenon

L'Amie de Madame Maigret

"Könnten Sie kurz auf meine Kleine aufpassen?" Madame Maigret, die Kinder über alles liebt, tut der unbekannten Dame gerne den Gefallen. Allerdings ist sie erstaunt, als sie mit der Kleinen sitzengelassen…

J. G. Ballard

Super-Cannes

Paul Sinclair begleitet seine Frau Jane nach Südfrankreich, die als Ärztin in Eden-Olympia, bei Cannes, arbeiten wird. Die moderne Ausstattung dort ist ein Paradies für die Beschäftigten. Dann dieser Scho…

Zadie Smith

White Teeth

Als Ophelia nach 30 Ehejahren die Scheidung einreicht, beschließt Archibald Jones zu sterben. Doch er hat die Rechnung ohne Mo-Hussein Ishmael gemacht, den koscheren Metzger, der mit einem Selbstmord vor …

Christopher Isherwood

The Berlin Novels

Two acclaimed novels based on Isherwood's experiences in pre-war Berlin, together in one volume MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the en…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregor…

Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped o…

Truman Capote

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

Introduction: Usable Answers by Reynolds Price The Walls Are Cold (1943) A Mink of One's Own (1944) The Shape of Things (1944) Jug of Silver (1945) Miram (1945) My Side of the Matter (1945) Preacher's Le…

T. C. Boyle

Water Music

Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa.

Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves

Als der Pulitzer-Preisträger Will Navidson mit seiner Frau und den beiden Kindern in das Haus zieht, ahnt er nicht, wie hier sein Leben aus den Fugen geraten wird. Ganz beiläufig filmt er die alltäglichen…

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pas…

Amélie Nothomb

Stupeur et tremblements

Au début des années 1990, la narratrice est embauchée par Yumimoto, une puissante firme japonaise. Elle va découvrir à ses dépens l?implacable rigueur de l?autorité d?entreprise, en même temps que les cod…

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day…

Philip Roth

American Pastoral

'Marvellous...raging and elegiac' James Wood, Guardian In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, …

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Mod…

Charles Bukowski

Post Office

Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukow…