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• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22 January 2009

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else—Alfi ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/02/2018

'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away' The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a con ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06/09/2016

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG.  Someone’s been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief—it’s Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they could ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 02/06/2016

Fantastic Mr Fox- the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world.Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat.Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper.Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drink ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with b ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/05/2012

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever ... Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Ana Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a US publishing house. But desire for Grey still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrange ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 12/11/2020

Read the ultimate classic comforting coming of age fantasy story.'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?'I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother - had often talked about it but when they ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/02/2018

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/02/2018

' "Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret: that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found" 'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved forever. Peng ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/07/2021

One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Acrtic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only l ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/05/2016

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda comes the story of a not-so-lovely grandma, a boy, and a magical medicine.George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. Sh ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 05/07/2018

M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the han ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/02/2018

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of i ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth' A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter' Introducing Little Black Clas ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/01/2009

From the bestselling author Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes an autobiographical account of his exploits as a World War II pilot! Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Learn all about Roald Dahl& ... more