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• 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

Dive into Monica Murphy’s Lancaster Prep series with this 5 book collection! ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/07/2016

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Jul 2012

'Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours: none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod so heavy ...' Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar t ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 31 May 2012

'Life is a pic-nic en costume ; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool' On the 1st of April aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi, a confidence man comes to trick and swindle his fellow passengers. Herman Melville's last major novel, The Confidence-Man is a masterful comedy of mas ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 30 Aug 2012

'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them' Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful co ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Apr 2012

'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions.' Lily Bart is beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York City, but reluctant to finally commit herself to one. In an endless search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves, she becomes embroiled in a sca ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 27 Sep 2012

"He is so scandalously weak, and she is so radically vicious, that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence of evil days coming"   When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sendin ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Jul 2012

'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his s ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 28 Jun 2012

'He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration ... doomed to perish in tortures the most severe' Ambrosio, a pious monk, finds himself drawn to his pupil, Matilda, a young woman in disguise. Unable to control himself, he sates his lust, and soon tires of her. But Matilda has more than her body to offer: using black magi ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Apr 2012

'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man' When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everyt ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Apr 2012

'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' The violent murder of a mother and daughter in Paris leaves the police baffled - but the reclusive Dupin, an amateur detective, decides to investigate simply in his desire for truth and to prove a fals ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 25 Oct 2012

'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions ... I loved you madly' Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn de ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26 Jul 2012

'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a panting dog' The tale of Little Nell gripped the nation when it first ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06 Dec 2012

'The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master's orders' Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers . Readers were immediately captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the ... more