PENGUIN
(P/B) LITTLE WOMEN
WITH GOOD WIVES
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-0641
Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of traveling through Europe with old Aunt March and Amy. Future writers have found inspiration in Jo's devotion to her writing. In this simple, enthralling tale, both parts of which are included here, Louisa May Alcott has created four of Amer... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE REPUBLIC
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-0546
Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as 'guardians' of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato ar... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CRESS
THE LUNAR CHRONICLES (BOOK 3)
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3634
Cress is the third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, following Cinder and Scarlet. Incarcerated in a satellite, an expert hacker and out to save the world - Cress isn't your usual damsel in distress. CRESS grew-up as a prisoner. With only netscreens for company she's forced to do the bidding of the evil Queen Levana. Now that means tracking down Cinder and her handsome accomplice Emperor Kai. But little does Levana know that those she seeks, and the man she loves, are plotting her downfall... As paths cross and the price of... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-2114
Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamond, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years.(from the publisher... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) SCARLET
THE LUNAR CHRONICLES (BOOK 2)
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3635
The second book in The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. This is not the fairytale you remember. But it's one you won't forget. SCARLET BENOIT'S grandmother is missing. The police have closed her case. The only person Scarlet can turn to is Wolf, a street fighter she does not trust, but they are drawn to each other. Meanwhile, in New Beijing, Cinder will become the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive - when she breaks out of prison to stay one step ahead of vicious Queen Levana. As Scarlet and Wolf expose one mystery, they encounte... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) WARHOL
A LIFE AS ART
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-4090
When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallower still: He claimed that he silkscreened to avoid the hard work of painting, although he was actually a meticulous workaholic; in interviews he presented himself as a silly na?f when in private he was the canniest of sophisticates. Blake Gopnik's definitive biography digs deep into the contradictions and radical genius that led Andy Warhol to revolutionise our cultural world. Based on years of archival research and on in... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) MYTHOS
THE GREEK MYTHS RETOLD
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3647
Discover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told... No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Mythos capture... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE VOLCANO LOVER
A ROMANCE
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-2612
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love. (from the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-2653
When Betty Friedan produced "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and be... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) AGUA VIVA
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-4073
In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction..(From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) BARCHESTER TOWERS
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3383
After the death of old Dr. Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr. Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden o... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) OVID: METAMORPHOSES
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-2731
This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as 'the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)'. The first English translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Golding's Metamorphoses (1567) decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing. Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are tr... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) ANOTHER COUNTRY
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-0087
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) ON THE ROAD
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-0280
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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SEIZE THE DAY
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-0107
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as ‘the type that loses the girl’) and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illumi... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE COST OF LIVING
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3982
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century The powerful second memoir from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realise we don't want to hold it together...' (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3593
Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, rundown Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, arid the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything is Possible underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE DOUBLE
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-1432
'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart.' 'The Double' (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is 'Mr Golyadkinjunior' really a double or simply a fearful si... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) THE GIVING TREE
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-2504
Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy. So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk ... and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-4270
Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed how th... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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