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Penguin Great Loves
''Penguin Great Loves'' is a series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK. The books See also *''Great Books of the 20th Century'' *''Penguin Essentials'' *''Penguin Red Classics'' *''Ten of the Best'' References External links * {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107074947/http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk:80/nf/Theme/ThemePage/0,,-1965729,00.html , date=7 January 2010 , title=Penguin Great Loves Lists of novels Penguin Books book series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year."About Penguin – company history" , Penguin Books. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths Group (United Kingdom), Woolworths and other stores for Sixpence (British coin), sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for serious books. It also affected modern British popular culture significantly through its books concerning politics, the arts, and science. Penguin Books is now an imprint (trade name), imprint of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary (novel)
''Mary'' (russian: Машенька, Mašen'ka) is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under the pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by Russian-language publisher "Slovo". Plot summary ''Mary'' is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré and former White Guard Officer displaced by the Russian Revolution. Ganin is now living in a boarding house in Berlin, along with a young Russian girl, Klara, an old Russian poet, Podtyagin, his landlady, Lydia Nikolaevna Dorn and his neighbour, Aleksey Ivanovich Alfyorov, whom he meets in a dark, broken-down elevator at the beginning of the novel. Through a series of conversations with Alfyorov and a photograph, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Mary, is now the wife of his rather unappealing neighbour, and that she will be joining him soon. As Ganin realizes this, he ends his relationship with his current girlfriend, Lyudmila, and begins to be consumed by his memories of his time in Russia with Mary, which Gani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is an imprint of Penguin Books under which classic works of literature are published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean among other languages. Literary critics see books in this series as important members of the Western canon, though many titles are translated or of non-Western origin; indeed, the series for decades from its creation included only translations, until it eventually incorporated the Penguin English Library imprint in 1986. The first Penguin Classic was E. V. Rieu's translation of ''The Odyssey'', published in 1946, and Rieu went on to become general editor of the series. Rieu sought out literary novelists such as Robert Graves and Dorothy Sayers as translators, believing they would avoid "the archaic flavour and the foreign idiom that renders many existing translations repellent to modern taste". In 1964 Betty Radice and Robert Baldick succeeded Rieu as joint editors, with Radice becoming sole editor in 1974 and serving as an editor for 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Of The Best
''Ten of the Best'' was a boxed set of novels published by Penguin Books with the strapline ''Ten top novels from ten leading authors'', ({{ISBN, 0140954406) Included in the set: *'' The Best of Rumpole'' by John Mortimer *'' Brazzaville Beach'' by William Boyd *''The Country Girls'' by Edna O'Brien *'' A Dark-Adapted Eye'' by Barbara Vine *''Hawksmoor'' by Peter Ackroyd *''Juggling'' by Barbara Trapido *''Kowloon Tong'' by Paul Theroux *'' Other People'' by Martin Amis *''Regeneration'' by Pat Barker *''Virtual Light'' by William Gibson See also *''Great Books of the 20th Century'' *''Penguin Essentials'' *''Penguin Red Classics ''Penguin Red Classics'' is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. There are 39 books in the series. The books are from the Penguin Classics imprint, but do not contain any introductory material or commentary, instead focussing ...'' Lists of novels Penguin Books book series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Red Classics
''Penguin Red Classics'' is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. There are 39 books in the series. The books are from the Penguin Classics imprint, but do not contain any introductory material or commentary, instead focussing on the story. The books References {{reflist, refs= {{cite web , title = Published Reds , url = http://penguinclassics.com/reds/published.html , magazine = Penguin Classics , access-date = 6 June 2016 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090918134225/http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/cs/uk/10/minisites/penguinreds/published.html , archive-date = 18 September 2009 , url-status = dead {{cite web , title = Red Classics , url = http://penguinclassics.com/reds/ , magazine = Penguin Classics , access-date = 6 June 2016 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090919071821/http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/cs/uk/10/minisites/penguinreds/index.html , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Essentials
''Penguin Essentials'' (also called ''Essential Penguins'') refers to two series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK. The first series began in 1998, and the second in 2011. For both series, the classic books were released in smaller A-format size; the covers were redesigned by contemporary artists to appeal to a new generation of readers. Many titles appeared in both series. 2011 series See also * ''Penguin Red Classics'' * '' Pocket Penguins'' * ''Great Books of the 20th Century'' * '' Ten of the Best'' * ''Penguin European Writers ''Penguin European Writers'' is a series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK. The series began in 2018, and contains forgotten classics by European writers with introductions by acclaimed contemporary authors. Books See also * ...'' * '' Green Ideas'' References External links Official web site* {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214095628/http://www.penguinessentials.co.uk/ , date=14 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Books Of The 20th Century
''Great Books of the 20th Century'' is a series of twenty novels published by Penguin Books released at the end of the millennium. The following novels are included in the series: *''Heart of Darkness'' by Joseph Conrad (1899–1902) *''Swann's Way'' by Marcel Proust (1913) *'' The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'' by Franz Kafka (1915) *'' The Good Soldier'' by Ford Madox Ford (1915) *'' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' by James Joyce (1914–16) *'' My Ántonia'' by Willa Cather (1918) *''Women in Love'' by D. H. Lawrence (1920) *'' The Age of Innocence'' by Edith Wharton (1920) *''The Grapes of Wrath'' by John Steinbeck (1939) *''The Heart of the Matter'' by Graham Greene (1948) *''The Adventures of Augie March'' by Saul Bellow (1953) *'' Lord of the Flies'' by William Golding (1954) *''On the Road'' by Jack Kerouac (1957) *''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' by Ken Kesey (1962) *''1984'' by George Orwell (1949) *'' Waiting for the Barbarians'' by J. M. Coetzee (1980) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Women Who Got Away
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin And The Gypsy
''The Virgin and the Gipsy'' is a short novel (or novella) by English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often entitled ''The Virgin and the Gypsy'' which can lead to confusion because first and early editions had the spelling "Gipsy". Plot summary The tale relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from finishing school overseas to a drab, lifeless rectory in the East Midlands, not long after the World War I. Their mother has run off with another man, a scandal that is not talked about by the family, especially the girls' father, who was deeply humiliated and only remembers his wife as she was when they first met many years before. Their new home is dominated by a blind and selfish grandmother called "Mater" and her mean-spirited, poisonous daughter Aunt Cissie; there is also Uncle Fred, who lives a solitary life. The two girls, Yvette and Lucille, risk being suffocated by the life they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seducer's Diary
''Either/Or'' (Danish: ''Enten – Eller'') is the first published work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Appearing in two volumes in 1843 under the pseudonymous editorship of ''Victor Eremita'' (Latin for "victorious hermit"), it outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment. ''Either/Or'' portrays two life views. Each life view is written and represented by a fictional pseudonymous author, with the prose of the work reflecting and depending on the life view being discussed. For example, the aesthetic life view is written in short essay form, with poetic imagery and allusions, discussing aesthetic topics such as music, seduction, drama, and beauty. The ethical life view is written as two long letters, with a more argumentative and restrained prose, discussing moral responsibility, critical reflection, and marriage.Kierkegaard, Søre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kreutzer Sonata
''The Kreutzer Sonata'' (russian: Крейцерова соната, ) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven), Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian Empire, Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealousy, jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing of his wife: in his analysis, the root causes for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes. Summary During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and points out that, if understood as an exclusive preference for one person, it often passes quickly. Convention dictates that two married people s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eaten Heart
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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