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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past fifty years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship he gets closer to discovering...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
xlvi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. .."--Publisher description.
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xlv, 517 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today. Edited by acclaimed translator Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated some of the stories, and with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, this book is a revelation. Stories by writers already well known to English-language readers are included-like Tanizaki,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xlv, 617 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty. Part historical and part legend, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, recounting their personal and military battles, intrigues and struggles to achieve dominance for almost a hundred years. It is one of the most beloved works of East Asian literature,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Carlos's experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 389 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence.
589) Maigret's patience
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a gangster Maigret has been investigating for years is found dead in his apartment, the Inspector continues to bide his time and explore every angle until he finally reaches the truth.
590) The Stonewall reader
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New...
591) The Wizard of Oz
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City with Dorothy and friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xlii, 339 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that...
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...
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxix, 349 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man's publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre--by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 176 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait...
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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