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'To that flash of semi-vision can be traced a full half of the horror which has ever since haunted us'An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explorers stumbles upon some mysterious ancient ruins, with devastating consequences. At the Mountains of Madness ranks among Lovecraft's most terrifying novellas, and is a firm favourite among fans of classic horror.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Charlotte Brontes impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroineone whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as the masterwork of a great genius, Jane Eyre is still regarded, over a century later, as one of the finest novels in English literature

Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down at Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.Until the day Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their society.

Manhattan, 1969 : un homme rencontre une femme. Dresde, 1945 : sous un déluge de bombes, une mère accouche d''un petit garçon. Avec puissance et émotion, l’auteur nous fait traverser ces continents e

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival ...Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'

Nick Hornby's internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do. A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come. 'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature' Independent on Sunday 'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent 'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving' Financial Times

A century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros... A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. Almost a century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros... In an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and recollections of the last dragon have not yet passed from living memory, a naive but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience. Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg, whose true identity must be kept hidden: for in reality he is Aegon Targaryen, and one day he will be king. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.

A weekend partying at a remote cabin is just what Mackenzie needs. She can't wait to let loose with her friends. But a crazy night of fun leaves two of them dead--murdered. With no signs of a forced entry or struggle, suspicion turns to the five survivors. Someone isn't telling the truth. And Mackenzie's first mistake? Assuming the killing is over...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'You will sob little tears of joy' Nell Zink 'I recommend it with my whole heart' Ann Patchett 'I adore this book' Armistead Maupin 'Charming, languid and incredibly funny, I absolutely adored Arthur' Jenny Colgan 'Marvellously, endearingly, unexpectedly funny' Gary Shteyngart 'Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times Book Review 'A fast and rocketing read . . . a wonderful, wonderful book!' Karen Joy Fowler 'Hilarious, and wise, and abundantly funny' Adam Haslett WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world. From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.

Une trentaine de textes brefs qui déclinent ces petits riens de la vie quotidienne, véritables moments de bonheur indicibles. De la cueillette des mûres, au plaisir sans complexe de savourer un banana-split, en passant par la magie colorée des kaléidoscopes ou l'épluchage subtil des petits pois.

Aspaldi honetan eleberriak argitaratu gabe egon ondoren, Koaderno Gorria aurkeztu digu Arantxa Urretabizkaiak. Arrazoi politikoak tarteko zirela, emakume bat bere senar eta umeak utzi beharrean aurkitu da. Hasiera batean distantziak baizik ez zuen bereizten familia. Halako batean, ordea, senarra eta umeak erabat desagertu zaizkio bizitzatik. Ez du hurrengo zazpi urteetan haien paraderoaren berririk izango. Une horretantxe irudika genezake eleberriaren abiapuntua: nola iritsi umeekin harremanak izatera, nola ikusi oraindik umeek gogoan duten ala amaordekoak bete duen osorik haren lekua... Horretarako bidali du Venezuelara mezularia, eta haren eskuetan jarri Koaderno Gorria. Bi planotan dago antolatuta eleberri hau: mezulariaren ikerketa eta mugimenduak, batetik, eta amaren oroitzapena erabat estali ez zedin amak berak idatzitako aitormena, bestetik. Koaderno gorri hau primeran antolatu eta soluzionatutako eleberri hunkigarria da.

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield... One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. 'A perfect novel ... it changed US culture forever' Independent 'It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him' Martin Amis 'He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was' Sunday Times 'His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now' Dave Eggers

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

Na torre da illa de Toralla, en plena ría de Vigo, aparece o cadáver dun saxofonista. O asasinato, dunha crueldade e sangue frío inusitados, vai ser investigado por Leo Caldas, inspector de policía que busca o seu lugar no mundo e que, ademais do seu traballo na comisaria, interven nun consultorio radiofonico ao que os cidadans se achegan coas queixas mais diversas. O seu axudante, Rafael Estevez, e un aragones destinado na cidade, un elemento estraño en terra hostil cun caracter demasiado impetuoso para os seus novos veciños. O caso desenvolverase entre o ambiente calido e nocturno dos clubs de jazz e a atmosfera tensa e afectada da alta burguesia viguesa. Novela policial salferida de humor e con grandes doses de suspense, Ollos de auga situa ao seu autor na liña de escritores que, coma Andrea Camilleri e Henning Mankell, renovan o xenero negro desde Europa cunha obra na que o interese da narracion se ve acrecentado por unha vision critica da sociedade. Na obra de Domingo Villar conviven certa melancolia coa ledicia da musica e o viño branco. Unha historia de misterio zarrapicada de ironia, unha intriga retranqueira, unha novela negra en cores.

I bought this book in need of something that would not lead to heavy introspection or stressing over the state of the world. What a wonderful, accidental choice it was! Paul Aster launches into a tall tale full of unique, peculiar and sympathetic characters who attempt and achieve amazing things. Told as a 1st-person narrative, the protagonist chronicles his life, starting in the 1920s as an 11-year-old guttersnipe in St. Louis who is approached by a man in a tuxedo and top-hat who promises that if the boy accompany him and submit to his instruction, he will be taught to fly by his 13ths birthday...if not, the man swears ...

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O vindeiro 6 de marzo chegará ás librarías O último barco unha nova entrega do inspector Leo Caldas que se publicará simultáneamente en galego e castelán A filla do doutor Andrade vive nuna casa pin

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien''s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister NiA"nor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Hurin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Hurin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth.But he could not bring it to a final and finished form.In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.

A fictional 17th-century Spanish swordsman's instruction to frighten two travelers becomes a murder-for-hire. What happens next is only the first in a series of riveting twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe.

L’estiu del 36 arriba la guerra a l’illa de Cabrera. En Guillem passa les vacances amb la seva tia Bàrbara, quan un hidroavió republicà aterra d’emergència en un indret on, fins llavors, el cop d’est

Literatura contemporanea

Following the death of her uncle, the orphan Jane Eyre is sent to the Lowood School, where she grows into a confident and well-educated young woman. When Jane leaves Lowood to become a governess at Thornfield, she falls in love with Mr. Rochester, her pupils guardian. But a series of eerie and terrifying events threaten to destroy her happy future. Featuring gripping plot twists and surprises, Jane Eyre offers rich insight into the life of a woman who, despite oppression and precarious circumstances, refuses to yield her sense of self to societal expectations.

A talented, ambitious, restless tomboy with a wild imagination, Jo bridles against ladylike conventions. She has no interest in becoming a lady; she will become a writer. Fortunately for Jo, her family supports her ambitions and understands her eccentricities. With their father serving as a chaplain in the Union Army and little money coming in, Jo and her three sisters work hard to help their mother keep the household afloat.Rarely has a novel had as large an impact on society as Little Women, while generating virtually no controversy. Immensely popular from the day it was published, it struck a chord with generations of young American women, supporting traditional Protestant values while demonstrating that women could pursue their dreams freely without compromising their virtue.

From the bestselling author of The Housemaid comes an unputdownable tale of passion and dangerous obsession as the life of a New Yorker who has recently met her perfect match turns into a living nightmare.A new, twisting thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coworker and The Housemaid!She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. Until she meets Tom.Tom is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.Then the brutal murder of a young womanthe latest in a string of deaths across the coastconfounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.Sydney should feel safe. After all, she has Tom, the man of her dreams. But she can't shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn't get to the truth, she'll be the killer's next victim...A dark story about obsession and the things we'll do for love, Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**The international bestseller****A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023****Chosen as a book of the year by the independent.co.uk**1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequenceigniting and re-ignitingas the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.''I am blown away by the scale, beauty, weave and thinking of this book ... It dances with words, time and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent everything I know about the novel'' RACHEL JOYCE

A diverse and glorious selection . . . a gift of imagination, wit, and wonder. The collection is filled with miniature masterpieces. . . . This must-have anthology is a treasure trove not to be missed. Library Journal (starred review)The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti, Francisco Gonzalez, and more.

**BOOKER PRIZE 2024**''Stunning... An uplifting book'' SUNDAY TIMESLife on our planet as youve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it.''A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'' GUARDIAN***A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherines father. After Mr Earnshaws death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherines brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Annes influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido&rsquo s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations. Some of those who observe her rituals in the river will never be seen again ...Originally published as a series of six volumes in 1983, Blackwater is the crowning achievement of Michael McDowell, author of the Southern Gothic classics Cold Moon Over Babylon and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. This first-ever one-volume edition, with a new introduction by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, marks Blackwater&rsquo s first appearance in print in three decades and will allow a new generation of readers to discover this modern horror classic.

Hemeretzi kamerak kontrolatzen dituzte Bilbon San Frantzisko auzoko jendearen ibilerak, bertan gertatzen baita eleberri honen ekintza. Garai batean, meatzariek eta zamaketariek okupatu zituzten kaleak dira, errepublikarren ideien agerpenaren lekuko izan zirenak eta hainbat belaunaldiren askatasunerako eta dibertsiorako plaza. Gero etorri zen lokal askoren itxiera, heroinaren agerpena eta emigrazioaren etorrera masiboa eta lehen arnasten zen giroa nahasi egin zen. Paisaia horretan aurkitzen dugu Toure, egoera irregularrean dagoen afrikarra, iragarle gisa magiaren arlo guztietan bere zerbitzuak eskaintzen dituena. Biziraupen-senak bultzatuta, detektibe inprobisatu hasiko da, eta patuak eramango du Bilboko gizartearen behe mailarik apalenarekin bezala goi mailako jende finenekin erlazionatzera. Haien kaskarkeriek baina baita prestutasunak ere, gorabehera barregarrien sekuentzia bati bide emango diete, errealitate gogor baten kontrastean.

A beautiful hardback classic edition of King''''s first published novel, CARRIE, produced for the fiftieth Anniversary, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood.Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD BREAKING MILLION COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN The rightful king of crime i News Deeply moving some of his best writing yet TelegraphShocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club An old friend in the antiques business has been killed and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers online fraudsters and drug dealers as well as heartache close to home With the body count rising the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail has their luck finally run out And who will be the last devil to die As charming and funny as always but SO MOVING Marian KeyesRichard Osman Sunday Times bestseller March 2024The Bullet that Missed broke the record for the fastest selling adult fiction hardback ever September 2022

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched continues with the second book in The Moonfall Series, The Ballad of Falling DragonsDiscover the phenomenon everyone's falling for:With dragons, doomed lovers and magic, this will be huge' Stylist'Hailed as the fantasy phenomenon of 2024 You'll be transported into a world of magic, dragons and love'Sun

Ipar poloko hegoaldean, izotz-zati eta glaziarren azpian dago munduko hazitegirik handiena. Milaka eta milaka hazi daude bertan gordeta, Lurraren lau ertzetan jasotako arroz, gari edo artoenak. Inoiz hondamendi naturalen bat edo gerrateren bat izango balitz ere. Hondamendi natural bat, demagun, ahanztura. Bada, literaturaren hazitegi bat balego, liburu honek bertan beharko luke. Orrialde hauetako lau poematatik gatoz hainbeste eta hainbeste. Txekhov-ek zioen literaturaren historiara poesia bakarrik pasatuko dela. Poeta bakar batzuek dute ahalmena lengoaia literario propio bat sortu eta harekin hizkuntza bera ere multiplikatzeko. Atxagaren mitxeleta, ziutatea, apatrida bezalako hitz eta adjektibo kalifikatiboek eta metafora liluratzaileek betirako zartatua, liburu honen irakurketa obsesibotik hasi nintzen ni idazten. Egun berrirakurrita, bere laburrean, liburu infinitua iruditzen zait. Aipaturiko poemez gainera, pasarte narratibo diferente eta zoragarriz betea. Etiopiak ia mende erdi egin duen honetan, orainetik eta oraindik, berresan ahal ditu zenbait hitz etorkizunaz ere. ANARI

Colette e rimorta, parola che non esiste da nessuna parte. Non esiste il termine rimorire. Colette era una donna senza storia, almeno cosi crede la nipote fino a quando una telefonata della gendarmeria non la informa del suo decesso. Il fatto e che Colette, la sua unica zia (Tata, zietta in francese), giace sepolta al cimitero gia da tre anniRomanzo raffinato, in cui si intrecciano destini e trame palpitanti, con il quale Valerie Perrin, straordinaria narratrice delle nostre vite, firma il suo grande ritorno.Valerie Perrin si conferma come una narratrice prodigiosa.