The Battle Of The Books

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past....

Rupi Kaur

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry S...

This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the pow...

Louisa May Alcott

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling...

Sally Rooney

"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, th...

Swift, Jonathan

«El autor de estos viajes, don Lemuel Gulliver, es un íntimo y viejo amigo mío; además tenemos algo de parientes por parte de madre. Hace unos tres años, el señor Gulliver, cansado de la multitud de gente curiosa que iba a verlo a su casa de Redriff, adquirió un pequeño terreno con una casa cómoda cerca de Newark, en el condado de Nottingham, su patria chica, donde ahora vive r...

Swift, Jonathan

Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a sea voyage but his ship is destroyed in a storm. Washed up on a strange island called Lilliput, Gulliver finds himself the prisoner of its tiny inhabitants. After he escapes, Gulliver finds himself in a land of giants where he is now the one who is tiny. Can Gulliver survive? Will he be able to escape and get back home? ...

Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan

Conocido sobre todo por sus célebres Viajes de Gulliver, ya publicados en esta colección, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) fue un satírico mordaz y un polemista incansable. Dentro de esta línea se inserta el que sin duda es su otro trabajo más popular, obra maestra del sarcasmo y el humor negro, titulado «Una humilde propuesta que tiene por objeto evitar que los hijos de los pobres s...

Swift, Jonathan

Lemuel Gulliver es el médico de un barco, que realiza unas travesías un tanto... ¡sorprendentes! Tras un grave naufragio, llega a la famosa isla de Lilliput, donde se ve atado por una red como si fuera un pez. Lo extraño del asunto es que quienes lo han atado son diminutos, ¡apenas miden 15 cm de altura! Más adelante, de nuevo embarcado, una terrible tormenta dejará a nuestro h...

Swift, Jonathan

El gran clásico de la literatura en una nueva edición adaptada e ilustrada. Gulliver es un apasionado de los viajes. En su afán por descubrir mundo, vivirá grandes aventuras que lo llevarán a lugares extraordinarios donde conocerá a los seres más insólitos: los minúsculos liliputienses, los gigantes de Brobdingnag, unos sabios insensatos que viven en una isla voladora y un...