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  1. Brave New World
    1. Aldous Huxley

    Brave New World

    WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.

    € 13,95
  2. Metamorphosis and Other Stories
    1. Franz Kafka

    Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.Michael Hofmann (Translator) Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.

    € 13,95
  3. Moby-Dick
    1. Herman Melville

    Moby-Dick

    A masterpiece—GuardianA great book...a deep great artist—D.H. LawrenceA wonderful delight—Nathaniel PhilbrickMoby Dick is my favourite novel, bar none. It works on so many levels. It taught me that you can have a top layer of narrative - like the seafaring story - and then below that all those wonderful, rich, symbolic things going on—Clive BarkerTo convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in these volumes—London Morning Advertiser, October 24 1851What a book [Moby-Dick] Melville has written! It gives me an idea of much greater power than his preceding ones. It hardly seemed to me that the review of it, in the Literary World, did justice to its best points—Nathaniel HawthorneOsama bin Laden's name and face have become so numbingly familiar to Americans as in effect to obliterate any history he and his shadowy followers might have had before they became stock symbols of everything loathsome and hateful to the collective imagination. Inevitably, then, collective passions are being funnelled into a drive for war that uncannily resembles Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick—Edward Said

    € 26,50
  4. Of Mice and Men
    1. John Steinbeck

    Of Mice and Men

    Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie becomes a victim of his own strength.

    € 12,50
  5. The Death Ship
    1. B. Traven

    The Death Ship

    The greatest of Traven's works, it is a good-humored but devastating attack on bureaucracy and the state

    € 17,95
  6. Moby-Dick
    1. Herman Melville

    Moby-Dick

    Tells the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost.

    € 16,99
  7. Hour of the Star
    1. Clarice Lispector

    Hour of the Star

    Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.

    € 13,95
  8. Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
    1. Dante

    Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

    Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this title depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.

    € 26,50
  9. Cannery Row
    1. John Steinbeck

    Cannery Row

    Lee Chong, the owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the Bear Flag Restaurant with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc, secreted away in his home at Western Biological Laboratories, is the fount of all wisdom.

    € 14,95
  10. Short Stories in Italian

    Short Stories in Italian

    New Penguin Parallel Texts

    This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating insight into Italian culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.

    € 14,95
  11. The Grapes of Wrath
    1. John Steinbeck

    The Grapes of Wrath

    A warm-hearted celebration of the persistence of the human spirit

    € 13,95
  12. Moby Dick
    1. Herman Melville

    Moby Dick

    In ‘Moby Dick’ van Herman Melville sluit zeevaarder Ismaël zich, ondanks angstaanjagende voorspellingen, aan bij de bemanning van kapitein Achab, die op het punt staat te vertrekken op een obsessieve walvisjacht. Voor Achab, die ooit verminkt is door de witte walvis Moby Dick, is het een wraaktocht. Met immense felheid betreedt hij gevaarlijke wateren, blind voor de waanzin van zijn plan, en weigert hij zich door de krachten van de natuur te laten tegenhouden. Een opwindend verhaal over de walvisvangst, een tragische biecht en een diepgaande allegorie: ‘Moby Dick’ omvat al het menselijke – van het fysieke en bovennatuurlijke tot het spirituele en emotionele. Deze ‘great American novel’ zit boordevol vreemde wijsheden en wild uiteenlopende energie.

    € 17,50