Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/train-to-pakistan-4-57533.html It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the 'ghost train' arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.

Author: KHUSHWANT SINGH  Publisher: LOTUS]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/durgeshnandini-4-114522.html From Peary Chand Mitter’s Alaler Gharer Dulal (1857) to Samaresh Basu’s Mahakaler Rather Ghora (1977), Random House India presents the greatest Bengali novels in their definitive translation. Many of these books will be translated into English for the first time. Durgeshnandini (The Chieftain’s Daughter) is by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Bankim is the father of the Bengali novel and considered by many as its greatest novelist. Durgeshnandini is his first novel in Bengali and the first complete novel in Indian literature. Inspired by the romances of Walter Scott, it is a swashbuckling historical epic set in Bengal during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the sixteenth century.

Author: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay  Publisher: Random House]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/three-women-4-114521.html From Peary Chand Mitter’s Alaler Gharer Dulal (1857) to Samaresh Basu’s Mahakaler Rather Ghora (1977), Random House India presents the greatest Bengali novels in their definitive translation. Many of these books will be translated into English for the first time. Three Women (Nashtaneer, Malancha, Dui Bon) is by Rabindranath Tagore. Nashtaneer (The Broken Nest), Malancha (The Arbour), and Dui Bon (The Two Sisters) are considered to be some of Tagore’s finest prose works. Subtle, full of psychological nuance, and lyricism, this is vintage Tagore.

Author: RABINDRA NATH TAGORE  Publisher: Random House]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-man-eater-of-malgudi-4-114315.html The Man-eater of Malgudi revolves around Nataraj, a mild-mannered owner of a small printing press, who leads a contented life with his circle of friends: a poet, a journalist, and Sastri, his assistant. One day, Vasu, a pugnacious taxidermist, moves into Nataraj’s house, and soon begins to encroach on his life, scaring away his friends and customers. Nataraj is intimidated by Vasu, but when the taxidermist covets the beloved temple elephant to add to his collection of stuffed hyenas, tigers and pythons, Nataraj rises to the occasion.

Author: R K NARAYAN  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/waiting-for-thr-mahatma-4-114316.html This enchanting comic novel located in the bustling fictional town of Malgudi is set against the backdrop of the freedom struggle. Sriram, a quiet young man, falls in love with Bharati whose primary loyalty is to Gandhi and his ideas. Sriram too becomes a follower of the Mahatma and gets involved in the Quit India movement. This leads to a series of adventures and misadventures and even lands him and Bharati in jail . . .

Author: R K NARAYAN  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-vendor-of-sweets-4-114317.html Jagan, the vendor of sweets, finds himself confronted by his estranged son Mali, who has returned to Malgudi with Grace, his American wife, and a grand plan for selling story-writing machines. What follows is a classic cross-generational battle between father and son. A man of Gandhian principles, Jagan cannot reconcile himself to Mali s modern ways, but develops a fondness for Grace. Unable to find a place in the new world, Jagan decides to retire, only to learn that Mali has been arrested by the police and has deserted his wife. Insightful and moving, The Vendor of Sweets is R.K. Narayan s story of an India trying to find its own identity.

Author: R K NARAYAN  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/earthly-powers-4-87199.html Rollicking, panoramic epic of 20th century by the author of 'A Clockwork Orange' Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century nMartin AmisnnKenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind s frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.

Author: Burgess, Anthony  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/voyage-out-the-4-87268.html With introductions by Frances Spalding and Erica Wagner The Voyage Out opens with a party of English people aboard the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is a free spirit, half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer met in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, not in marriage but in tragedy. Published in 1915, The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf's first novel.

Author: Woolf, Virginia  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/barnaby-rudge-4-114334.html ‘One of Dickens’s most neglected, but most rewarding, novels’ Peter Ackroyd Barnaby Rudge is a young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught up in the mayhem of the Gordon riots and a mysterious unsolved murder, his life is put in jeopardy. Barnaby Rudge a powerful historical tale of treachery, forbidden love, abduction and the dangerous power of the mob.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dead-man-in-deptford-a-4-114337.html ‘One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers… It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn’ Irish Times A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.

Author: Burgess, Anthony  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-giver-of-the-worn-garland-4-114318.html And below her hair, she would put on a garland and spend a few minutes just gazing into a pond, seeing her reflection and satisfying her desire before turning away and returning the worn garland to her flower basket The emperor Krishnadevarāya’s epic poem Āmuktamālyada (Giver of the Worn Garland) depicts the life of the medieval Vaisnava poet-saint Āndāl, or Goda Devi as she is also known, and her passionate devotion to Lord Visnu. Krishnadevarāya’s unique poetic imagination brings to life a celestial world filled with wonder, creativity, humour and vibrant natural beauty. The mundane is made divine and the ordinary becomes extraordinary; the routine activities of daily life become expressive metaphors for heavenly actions, while the exalted gods of heaven are re-imagined as living persons. The poet’s ability to see divinity in the most commonplace activities is an extension of

Author: SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/to-whom-it-may-concern-4-114275.html Hardev Dange is suffering through a tumultuous year. He s just been informed that the bank is going to foreclose on his house. His fickle daughter Birendra is on the verge of marriage, his son Emile is studying curses (while falling in love with a fellow male grad student), and his younger daughter, Dorothy, who s deaf, is working at a tattoo and body piercing parlour and collecting stories from the older men languishing at her local hangout. And because he s confined to a wheelchair, Hardev is dependent on his homecare worker, the kleptomaniac Rodriguez, to help him devise a plan to keep house and home together. In this modern, multicultural re-telling of Shakespeare s King Lear, Priscila Uppal explores the vulnerability and complexity of family and inheritance. She exposes the tragic and comedic dimensions of our failures to communicate, of keeping secrets especially from family and the consequences of our betrayals. With the depth of her perception and fine eye for detail, Priscila Uppal s To Whom It May Concern is a refreshing take on love, compassion and torment. In this grand saga with its vivid portrayal of characters held hostage by their fate and fortune, everyone has an opinion, but few keep it to themselves except when it really counts.

Author: PRISCILIA UPPAL  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/miser-other-plays-4-50796.html This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors became The School for Wives Criticized. Even more alarming to critics was his version of Don Juan. In The Hypochondriac, he produced an outrageous expose of medicine.

Author: Moliere  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/trial-4-58575.html Presents a psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basisan event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved.

Author: Kafka, Franz  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/outsider-4-58576.html Meursault leads a bachelor life until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law. This novel explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend and is prepared to face the indifference of the universe, courageously and alone.

Author: Camus, Albert  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shakespeare-on-love-4-99731.html Not only did Shakespeare reinvent the English language, he also penned some of the greatest writings on love of all time. From starcrossad lovers and tragic jealousy to unrequited passion and romantic courtship, images of amour are evoked in myriad ways in his plays and poems. In this endlessly browsable volume Michael Kerrigan plums the entirety of Shakespeareas work to bring together the greatest examples of his meditations on love. By turns touching, inspiring, evocative, and heartrending, Shakespeare on Love is truly a book that readers will embrace.

Author: Kerrigan, Michael  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shakespeare-stories-4-99732.html Contains twelve Shakespeare plays in narrative form. This book presents an introduction to Shakespeare for the young.

Author: Garfield, Leon  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shakespeare-stories-ii-4-99733.html A companion volume to the highly acclaimed Shakespeare Stories. It presents nine of Shakespeare's memorable dramas.

Author: Garfield, Leon  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shakespeare-s-history-plays-4-99734.html This is an appraisal of each history play which shows how Shakespeare drew both on learned sources and popular drama to create something uniquely his own. He examines the myths surrounding the Tudors and Elizabethan beliefs about the great chain of being, order and disorder and the punishments visited on the children of tyrants and usurpers. Out of all this Shakespeare made a political testament. But as the sequence reached its climax in a portrait of the perfect king, Henry V, Shakespeare turned from great public themes to heroes like Brutus and Hamlet; it is only Macbeth which perhaps should be considered the epilogue of the Histories.

Author: Tillyard, E M W  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shakespeare-s-kings-4-99735.html This text presents a narrative of a nation's history as portrayed by William Shakespeare. John Julis Norwich tells the story of what really happened in the century and a half between 1337 and 1485 by examining the history plays, from the recentlyauthenticated Edward III through to Richard III.

Author: Norwich, John J  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shakespeare-s-problem-plays-4-99736.html Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure these are all described by the author as Shakespeare's problem plays. In each of them, the author argues, Shakespeare is deeply interested in speculative thought and in the observance of human nature for their own sake; and each is concerned with men on the edge of manhood and of the harsh experiences which forced them to grow up.

Author: Tillyard, E M W  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/almond-picker-4-99737.html In the village of Roccacolomba, Sicily, La Mennulara ( the woman who gathers almonds') lies dead. For more than forty years she had been at the heart of the Afallipe family, one of the richest families in Roccacolomba, first as a humble maidservant and then rising to manager of the family estates. Now, at her death, the gossip among the villagers is reaching fever pitch as each character begins to wonder just how La Mennulara managed to amass such a large fortune. Was she stealing from the Afallipe family or trying to save them? Will La Mennulara's death reveal her to be a monster or a saint?

Author: Hornby, Simonetta Agnello  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/a-tranquil-star-unpublished-stories-of-4-103497.html Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark selection of his fiction all in brand new translations. These exquisitely wrought stories open up a rich, vibrant world of wonder, adventure, resistance, love, cruelty and visceral energy, where nothing is as it seems. In The Fugitive an office worker composes the most beautiful poem ever, only to find events taking on a strange life of their own; in @Magic Paint a group of reserachers develop a paint that mysteriously protects them from misfortune, but dangerously miscalculate the outcome. In Gladiators and The Knall, Primo Levi chillingly explores modernday mass violence, while in Fra Diavolo ion the Po, he gives a fascinating account of military service in fascist Italy. Sometimes dark and haunting, sometimes wrily amusing, always rich with arresting images and curious twists of fate, these extraordinary tales are testament to one of the literary masters of our age.

Author: Levi, Primo  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-4-103498.html Wild Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or turn his friend over to a terrible fate?

Author: Twain, Mark  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alexandra-the-great-alex-in-wonderland-4-103499.html Alex is off on on holiday to Wonderland Holiday Camp and it's going to be brilliant! Her best friend Rosie is coming along and they're both going to be in the Kool Kids Club free of boring parents and also free from Alex's mischevious younger brother, Evan! Every night Kool Kids put on a show for the rest of the camp and Alex decides that this is her chance of the stardom she is so obviously destined for her talents are sure to be spotted by a big talent scout! Tragically Alex's sworn enemy, Pearl Barconi (aka Macaroni!) gets the part and Alex's dreams of being discovered begin to fade. But when Pearl has a slight accident with a bottle of her mum's tanning cream and has to drop out of the play, it looks like Alex might just get that star role after all!

Author: Coppard, Yvonne  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/all-s-well-that-ends-well-4-103500.html The three main characters Helena, Bertram, and Parolles have generated a great deal of literary criticism and comment as well. Some critics brand Helena as conniving and obsessive in her love for Bertram, while others find her wholly virtuous and noble.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/another-day-of-life-4-103501.html In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of a city and a country that seemed, for a prolonged period, to have taken leave of the world, to enter a nightmare of anarchy.

Author: Kapuscinski, R  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/around-the-world-in-80-days-4-103502.html This Penguin Classic offers a stirring, new tanslation of the everpopular adventure story.

Author: Verne, Jules  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/aspects-of-the-novel-4-103503.html Aspects Of The Novel

Author: Forster, E M  Publisher: PENG TCC CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/aspern-papers-4-103504.html In an elegant and crumbling palazzo old Miss Bordereau lives on with her niece, closely guarding her most precious treasure, a hoard of letters written to her in her youth by the great American love poet Jeffrey Aspern. Adopting a nom de guerre the tale's narrator, a literary researcher, arrives at the palazzo and inveigles the two ladies into taking him in as their lodger. There he watches and waits for the moment to pounce. For he is determined to gain possession of the Aspern papers and willing to pay almost any price. James's tale in part a warning to overzealous historians and biographers grips the reader with steadily mounting suspense and is regarded by many as the most brilliant of all his stories.

Author: James, H  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/atlas-shrugged-4-103505.html Tells the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. This title presents the mystery about the murder and rebirth of man's spirit.

Author: Rand, Ayn  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beyond-good-evil-4-103506.html Returning to a favorite theme, Nietzsche offers a wealth of fresh insights into the selfdestructive urge of Christianity, the prevalence of slave moralities and the terrible dangers in the pursuit of philosophical or scientific truth.

Author: Nietzsche, F  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bleak-house-4-103507.html Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/breakfast-at-tiffany-s-bill-amberg-4-103508.html It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktailhour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turnedup nose, a heartbreaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease.

Author: Capote, Truman  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/canterbury-tales-the-a-retelling-by-p-4-103509.html A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer's classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd's contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these charactersas well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickensyet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer's verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.

Author: Ackroyd, Peter ; Chaucer, Geoffrey  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chain-of-fire-4-103510.html Set in South Africa at the height of the apartheid regime, when the government started a policy of ethnic cleansing, forcibly removing people from their homes and moving them to socalled 'homelands'. Schoolchildren Naledi and Tiro are caught up in the protests and resistance as they and their grandmother are threatened with removal from their village. Protestors are arrested and beaten, but still people fight on. Freedom lies at the end of a long road.

Author: Naidoo, Beverley  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chess-4-103511.html On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. The chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a voice begins to whisper suggestions. The speaker is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable.

Author: Zweig, Stefan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/child-s-garden-of-verses-4-103512.html A collection of poems to celebrate childhood. From the makebelieve world of The Land of Counterpane to the simple pleasure of At the Seaside, the curiosity of Auntie's Skirts to the dreams of Foreign Lands, these poems capture a child's wonder and fascination with everyday things.

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/complete-poems-4-103513.html Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical lovepoetry, religious works and biting satire. From the passionately erotic To his Coy Mistress, to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual On a Drop of Dew, in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery. Eloquent and compelling, they remain among the most vital and profound works of the era works by a figure who, in the words of T. S. Eliot, speaks clearly and unequivocally with the voice of his literary age'.

Author: Marvell, A  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/confederacy-of-dunces-4-103514.html The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his bulk through the city's fleshpots in a crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. He must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his newfound employment to his further mission.

Author: Kennedy Toole, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/connecticut-yankee-at-king-arthur-s-cour-4-103515.html Hank Morgan, a nineteenthcentury American who is accidentally returned to sixthcentury England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years.

Author: Twain, Mark  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cranford-cousin-phillis-4-103516.html Includes Cranford which depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loyal support for each other in times of need; and, Cousin Phillis, which depicts a fleeting love affair in a rural community at a time when old values are being supplanted by the new.

Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/crucible-4-103517.html Presents the story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax.

Author: Miller, Arthur  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cymbeline-4-103518.html One of Shakespeare's late romances along with Pericles, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale Cymbeline tells three connected stories the resistance of a British king to Roman rule; the story of two lovers Imogen and Posthumous driven apart by the lies of the villainous Jachimo; and the tale of two young princes kidnapped from the royal.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/daniel-deronda-4-103519.html Daniel Deronda opens with one of the most memorable encounters in fiction Gwendolen Harleth, alluring yet unsettling, is poised at the roulettetable in Leubronn, observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper classes, and now searching for his path in life. While Gwendolen becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, a series of dramatic encounters draws Deronda into ever deeper sympathy with Jewish aspirations to cultural and natural identity. Remote as Gwendolen's countryhouse world may seem from the world of Mirah, the lost daughter, and Mordecai, the visionary, George Eliot weaves these strands of her plot intimately together, daring the readers of Adam Bede and Middlemarch to open their eyes to areas of experience wholly new to the Victorian novel.

Author: Eliot, George  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/day-of-the-locust-4-103520.html Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a setdesigner, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional callgirl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare.

Author: West, Nathanael  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/death-of-ivan-ilyich-4-103521.html Ivan Ilyich lies alone, dosed up on opium and deceived by doctors, haunted by memories and regrets. His faithful servant tends to his every need. But as he forces down false remedies and listens to empty promises, Ivan grows aware of one terrible truth. His wife and his children are not awaiting his recovery. They are waiting for him to die.

Author: Tolstoy, Leo (Trs Anthony Briggs)  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/discourse-on-method-meditations-4-103522.html Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes' most radical ideas such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy.

Author: Descartes, Rene  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/doll-s-house-other-plays-4-103523.html The League of Youth (1869) was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turningpoint in his style. By 1879 Ibsen was convinced that women suffer an inevitable violation of their personalities within the context of marriage. In A Doll's House he portrayed the wife struggling to break free this was unheard of at the time and Ibsen's play caused a sensation. Continuing the theme of tensions within the family in The Lady from the Sea, Ibsen put forward the view that freedom with responsibility might at least be a step in the right direction.

Author: Ibsen, Henrik  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dreams-in-the-witch-house-other-weird-4-103524.html One of the masters of weird fiction', H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic and fantastical otherworlds, nightmarish dreamscapes or the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of smalltown America. The shadow of New England's witchhunting past hangs over many of the tales, as in The Shunned House' and The Dreams in the Witch House', in which malevolent spectres return to haunt the region. Others, such as From Beyond' and The Shadow Out of Time', depict the catastrophic results when cosmic channels of time and space are opened, while stories such as Polaris' and The Doom that Came to Sarnath' portray the downfall of mythical civilizations.

Author: Lovecraft, H.P.& Joshi, S.T.  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/eclogues-4-103525.html Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phrasing, the poems in Virgil's first collection are also grounded in reality.

Author: Virgil  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/egoist-4-103526.html Illuminates the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. This title covers egoism, sentimentality and the power of comedy. It features the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.

Author: Meredith, George  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/epic-of-gilgamesh-4-103527.html Translated with an Introduction by Andrew George.

Author: George, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/essays-4-103528.html Essays

Author: Orwell, George  Publisher: PENG TCC CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-an-4-103529.html most popular of Darwinas books during his lifetime, in a beautifully illustrated new edition Featuring dozens of color photographs from Darwinas original publication, this editionaissued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwinas birthamakes this classic study newly accessible to modern readers. Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwinas research interests. Darwinas main goal was to demonstrate the power of his theories for explaining the origin of our most cherished human qualities, morality and intellect. The work engages some of the hardest questions in the evolution debate, and it shows the evercautious Darwin at his boldest.

Author: Darwin, Charles ; Cain, Joe (Introductio  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fables-of-the-bees-4-103530.html A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705.

Author: Mandeville, Bernard  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fall-4-103531.html Fall

Author: Camus, Albert  Publisher: PENG TCC CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/family-from-one-end-street-4-103532.html This is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. The father is a dustman and the mother a washerwoman, but because they are poor the children find even greater opportunities for adventure in their ordinary lives. There's practical Lily Rose, the oldest who is full of 'Big Ideas', then Kate who is plain but extremely bright, next are the twins James and John, who get into all kinds of mischief, followed by Jo, who loves films, little Peg and finally baby William. The Family from One End Street has a lively family setting, is full of wonderfully funny adventures and sure characterisation a truly classic book awarded the Carnegie Medal as the best children's book of 1937.

Author: Garnett, Eve  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/far-from-the-madding-crowd-4-103533.html This tale of love from reckless fervor to selfless constancy is firmly rooted in the rich rural byways that Hardy knew so well. Bathsheba Everdene, determined to run the farm that has always belonged to her family, is loved by three men the local farmer Boldwood, a solid, yet passionate squire; Gabriel Oak, a quiet, devoted shepherd; and fascinating, ruthless Sergeant Troy. In this powerful, dramatic story Bathsheba, capricious and willful, comes to comprehend the true nature of generosity, humility, and, ultimately, love. This brandnew edition of Far from the Madding Crowd includes all of the material that was censored from Hardy's original 1874 manuscript and is the complete book that the author never saw published.

Author: Hardy, Thomas  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fathers-sons-4-103534.html genevas timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translation When Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his eager, naAve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought home with him. A selfproclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkadyas father with his criticisms of the landowning way of life and his determination to overthrow the traditional values of contemporary society. Vividly capturing the hopes and fears, regrets and delusions of a changing Russia around the middle of the nineteenth century, Fathers and Sons is Ivan Turgenevas masterpiece.

Author: Turgenev, Ivan S  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/felix-holt-4-103535.html When the young Harold Transome returns to England with a selfmade fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But, after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent.

Author: Eliot, George  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fever-4-103536.html Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain, Fever, and A Day of Old Age. It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness.

Author: Clezio, J.M.G. Le  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fortunata-jacinata-4-103537.html Galdos' fourpart Fortunata and Jacinta (18867), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s.

Author: Galdos, Benito Perez  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/forty-stories-4-103538.html This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

Author: Barthelme, Donald & Eggers, Dave  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fountainhead-4-103539.html Tells the story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of secondhand souls. First published in 1943, this novel presents a view of man's creative potential. It is about ambition, power, gold and love.

Author: Rand, Ayn  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ghosts-other-plays-4-103540.html The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies and exposing them. In Ghosts, Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and learns the horrific effect his father's debauchery has had on him. It was Ibsen's most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middleclass family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality. A Public Enemy sets two brothers against each other when one wishes to make public the facts about the polluted water in the public baths of their home town. And When We Dead Wake tells of an artist meeting an old lover by chance and rejecting his wife, in a symbolic exploration of Ibsen's own literary life and the sacrifices he made in his work.

Author: Ibsen, Henrik  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/gobetween-4-103541.html The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there, begins L. P. Hartley's tale of nostalgia, the reawakening of lost memories, and the sexual awareness of an adolescent boy. It is 1952. Leo, now in his sixties, comes upon an old diary and is drawn back to the hot summer of 1900, when he visited Brandham Hall. He has managed to forget serving during his stay as a messenger between a young woman and her lover and to forget also the devastating events that ensued and destroyed his beliefs and his hopes for the future. As his memories begin to unfold and Leo recalls the lost era of Victorian country gentry, he finds he must reinterpret his newly discovered past in terms of his present life. This first annotated edition of Hartley's 1953 classic contains a number of corrections based on the surviving handwritten manuscript.

Author: Hartley, L P  Publisher: PENG TCC CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/goodnight-mister-tom-4-103542.html Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley but his newfound happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London...This is the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

Author: Magorian, M  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/grace-abounding-to-the-chief-of-sinners-4-103543.html Composed and published while the author (16281688) was in prison for his religious principles, this work presents a spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious radicalism was regarded as socially subversive, and provides an account of his inner life his long struggle with and eventual triumph over doubt and despair.

Author: Bunyan, J  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-expectations-4-103544.html Great Expectations

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/greyfriars-bobby-4-103545.html Bobby, an active Skye terrier, adores his master Auld Jock, and when the old man dies, Bobby refuses to leave his grave in Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh. By day, he plays with the local orphans and eats at a nearby tavern, and every night for fourteen years Bobby returns faithfully to sleep by his master.

Author: Atkinson, E  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hamlet-4-103546.html Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, fulllength version of Hamlet. His desire becomes a reality when this epic drama, featuring an allstar cast and produced and directed by Branagh, comes to theaters this fall. This tiein book includes Branagh's Introduction and screenplay, a production diary, color stills, and more.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/heartbreak-house-4-103547.html This play is centred around the eccentric household of Captain Shotover where, at a houseparty, the main topic of debate is one young woman's decision to marry for money rather than love.

Author: Shaw, George Bernard  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/henry-iv-part-2-4-103548.html Angered by the loss of his son in battle, the Earl of Northumberland supports another rebellion against King Henry IV, bringing the country to the brink of civil war. Sick and weary, the old King sends out his forces, including the unruly Sir John Falstaff, to meet the rebels. But as the conflict grows, he must also confront a personal problem.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/henry-vi-part-2--4-103549.html Henry VI is tricked into marrying Margaret lover of the Earl of Suffolk, who hopes to rule the kingdom through her influence. There is one great obstacle in Suffolk's path, however the noble Lord Protector, who he slyly orders to be murdered.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/home-at-grasmere-4-103550.html Throws light on William Wordsworth's creative process, and shows how the interdependence of brother and sister was a vital part in the writing of many of his great poems. This work helps trace the processes by which they were committed to paper.

Author: Wordsworth, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/iliad-trans-rieu--4-103551.html One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warriorchampion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warriorchampion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.

Author: Homer  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/immoralist-4-103552.html Michel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings selfdiscovery and the growing desire to rebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. But the freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restless travels is won at great cost.

Author: Gide, Andre  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/invisible-man-the-4-103553.html Invisible Man, The

Author: Wells, H.G.  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/iron-in-the-soul-4-103554.html June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. This book tells what men thought and felt and did as France fell.

Author: Sartre, JeanPaul  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/island-of-dr-moreau-the-4-103555.html Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts.

Author: Wells, H.G.  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/julius-caesar-4-103556.html When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to destroy him is hatched by those determined to preserve the threatened republic. But the different motives of the conspirators soon become apparent when high principles clash with malice and political realism.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/labyrinth-of-solitude-4-103557.html As well as the nine essays on his country's psyche and history that make up 'The Labyrinth of Solitude', this highly acclaimed volume also includes 'The Other Mexico', Paz's heartfelt response to the government massacre of over three hundred students in Mexico City in 1968, and 'Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude', in which he discusses his famous work with Claude Fell. The two final essays contain further reflections on the Mexican government.

Author: Paz, Octavio  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lady-chatterley-s-lover-4-103558.html The great philosopheras final writings on the real and the ideal In Timaeus and Critias, Plato presents his ultimate view on the composition of the universe. Taking the form of dialogues among Socrates, Timaeus, Critias, and Hermocrates, these two works explore the origins of the universe, life, and humanity, and have remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. Desmond Leeas translation preserves the lucidity of the original, and his appendix on Atlantis is an invaluable source of information on this perennial myth. Timaeus and Critias is an essential text for students of philosophy and classics as well as literature and mythology.

Author: Lawrence, D.H.  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lady-susan-the-watsons-sanditon-4-103559.html Contains three short works that show the author experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. This title features Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon.

Author: Austen, Jane  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lady-with-the-little-dog-other-stories-4-103560.html During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected hereThe Lady with the Little Dog, The House with the Mezzanine, My Life, Peasants, A Visit to Friends, Ionych, About Love, In the Ravine, The Bishop, The Bride, and Disturbing the Balancehail from this fertile period. They reveal a writer who, in response to the techniques of Symbolism and Impressionism, moved beyond nineteenthcentury realism to become an innovator of the modern short story, influencing such key twentiethcentury literary figures as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

Author: Chekhov, Anton  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lark-rise-to-candleford-4-103561.html Presents the story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town. This trilogy, containing Lark Rise, Over To Candleford and Candleford Green, is a portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century.

Author: Thompson, Flora  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/last-chronicle-of-barset-4-103562.html Anthony Trollope was a masterful satirist with an unerring eye for the most intrinsic details of human behavior and an imaginative grasp of the preoccupations of nineteenthcentury English novels. In The Last Chronicle of Barset, Mr. Crawley, curate of Hogglestock, falls deeply into debt, bringing suffering to himself and his family. To make matters worse, he is accused of theft, can't remember where he got the counterfeit check he is alleged to have stolen, and must stand trial. Trollope's powerful portrait of this complex mangloomy, brooding, and proud, moving relentlessly from one humiliation to anotherachieves tragic dimensions.

Author: Trollope, Anthony  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/leaves-of-grass-4-103563.html Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice, style, and optimistic, bombastic vision into American letters, one that took the nation itself as subject. Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short early editions, our new Deathbed version presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form.

Author: Whitman, Walt  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/letters-from-a-stoic-4-103564.html A philosophy that saw selfpossession as the key to an existence lived in accordance with nature, Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. Seneca's contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.

Author: Seneca, Annaeus Lucius  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/little-birds-4-103565.html A collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.

Author: Nin, Anais  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lolita-4-103566.html The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12yearold Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his Lolita both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.

Author: Nabokov, Vladimir  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lusiads-4-103567.html First published in 1572, this work describes Portugal's voyages of discovery. It describes Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 149798. It reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East.

Author: Camoens  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lysistrata-other-plays-4-103568.html Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. This is a new edition of comedies by the great satirist of ancient Greece. Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.

Author: Aristophanes  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/macbeth-4-103569.html Macbeth

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/macbeth-4-103570.html Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/malgudi-days-4-103571.html A collection of 32 stories in which the author portrays an astrologer, a snakecharmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and domestic detail. The imaginary city of Malgudi springs to life, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.

Author: Narayan, R K  Publisher: PENG TCC CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/man-who-watched-the-trains-go-by-4-103572.html Hardworking Dutch family man Kees Popinga loses his money when the shipping firm he works for collapses. Something snaps and from the shell of a modern citizen emerges a calculating paranoiac, capable of random acts of violence even murder.

Author: Simenon, Georges  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/medea-other-plays-4-103573.html Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford.

Author: Euripides  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/midsummer-night-s-dream-4-103574.html A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her wouldbe husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100