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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xxxix, 653 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If beautiful, orphaned Emily St. Aubert is to resist the predatory demands of her new guardian, the inscrutable Signor Montoni, she must quell the superstitious imaginings that pervade her mind. Within the sombre walls of Montoni's medieval castle the boundaries of real and imagined terrors are blurred as Emily is drawn into a Gothic web of mystery and intrigue which threaten her not only with the loss of inheritance but also identity."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
New translation.
Physical Desc
xiv, 70 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 265 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
They call themselves 'Captains of the Sands, ' a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old 'Bullet, ' the band-including a crafty liar named 'Legless, ' the intellectual 'Professor, ' and the sexually precocious 'Cat'-pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the 'little...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
133 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Jules Maigret investigates the murder of a prominent citizen of a little town on the coast of Brittany and, rather than make a quick arrest of a sad-eyed waitress who has seen too much, stays until justice is done.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 562 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 271 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Truman Capote makes whiskey-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 323 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners A Penguin Classic These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the...
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