Serie Penguin Modern Classics – alle Bücher

J. L. Carr

A Month in the Country

In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Penguin Modern Classics

'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to giv…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 6,38*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Clarice Lispector

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Penguin Modern Classics

'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian 'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Tóibín 'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she lea…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 9,18*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

William S. Burroughs

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Penguin Modern Classics

New York während des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Eine Gruppe von Freunden hängt in ihren Appartments herum und schlägt die Zeit tot. Während sie trinken, reden, knutschen und Drogen konsumieren, treiben sie einem…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

George Orwell

Animal Farm

Penguin Modern Classics

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has been recognized as a classic of modern political satire. Fuelled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Sovie…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 8,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

James Baldwin

Another Country

Penguin Modern Classics

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desir…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Bell Hooks

Art on My Mind

Penguin Modern Classics

A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love'If one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to crea…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Morrissey

Autobiography

Penguin Modern Classics

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he ha…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Aharon Appelfeld

Badenheim 1939

Penguin Modern Classics

'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenheim, a res…

lieferbar ab 15.8.2024.

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Baron Bagge

Penguin Modern Classics

'A masterpiece' Stefan Zweig'Compelling ... intense ... blending military narratives, paranormal experiences and erotic obsessions' TLSBaron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives o…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Len Deighton

Berlin Game

Penguin Modern Classics

'Masterly ... dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times 'Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the spy'…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Stefan Zweig

Beware of Pity

Penguin Modern Classics

'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'Who would have thought that the great…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Penguin Modern Classics

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its …

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Silvia Federici

Caliban and the Witch

Penguin Modern Classics

'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room A cult classic since its publication in the early years …

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 11,17*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

John Steinbeck

Cannery Row

Penguin Modern Classics

'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.'Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 9,18*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

George Orwell

Coming Up for Air

Penguin Modern Classics

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…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 9,18*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Count Luna

Penguin Modern Classics

'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear' Patti SmithThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt o…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Yukio Mishima

Death in Midsummer

Penguin Modern Classics

Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. A moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a …

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Penguin Modern Classics

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of th…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 10,37*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb

Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Penguin Modern Classics

'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

EUR 11,17*

Artikel ist im Warenkorb