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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one of its most accomplished masters with his touching meditations on the transience of human life and of the natural world. One of the supreme achievements...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, depicting, as he put it, 'those actions which illuminate the workings of the soul'.
428) Anna Karénina
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
In the Russia of Czar Nicholas II, a respectable married woman and mother, Anna Karenina, falls in love with a dashing army officer, Count Vronsky, for whom she gives up everything, only to be cast aside.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess. In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day. At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room. In all likelihood, that's where the crime was committed. What was the woman doing in the basement? Who could have lured her down there, and how? Especially at an hour when people of that...
433) Maigret's dead man
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder.
434) Maigret's first case
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a Paris musician witnesses an altercation that may have been a murder, the young Maigret becomes embroiled in his first case.
435) The misty harbour
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. No...
436) Maigret's madwoman
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of his subordinates, he decides to pay a visit to her Parisian apartment to investigate, but is he already too late?"--Publisher website.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles. The adventures and attitudes shared by these American writers, dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works.
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