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Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi...
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...
The Tempest
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. 'How many good...
Richard Scarry's Polite Elephant (Little Golden Book)
A beloved Richard Scarry title from 1963 is now available as a Little Golden Book When it comes to visiting a neighbor, enjoying a meal, or hosting a playdate, no one does it with better manners than the polite elephant. Richard Scarry's witty, colorful artwork of the elephant and his friends at pl...
Penguin Book of the Undead
The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late n...
Dark Tales
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl...
Light Between Us
'A marvellous book' Dr Eben Alexander, author of Proof of Heaven'She can pick up personal facts impossible to fathom by deduction or guesswork." Jeanette Winterson, Sunday Telegraph'We all have psychic experiences in our lives that connect us to one another and to those we love on the Other Side. Not ju...
Burma Sahib
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair...
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