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De Balzac, Honoré

A los cuarenta y tres años, Balzac «sólo veía un objetivo deseable:poner en orden su vida, aligerar sus deudas, vivir con tranquilidad,concluir en paz y sin prisas su obra gigantesca». Así define StefanZweig este periodo de madurez del gran novelista francés. Paraconseguir semejante objetivo tenía que reconquistar el amor deEwelina Hanska, la mujer de su vida. Precisamente al e...

Lustbader, Eric Van

On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov was willing to betray his Sovereign to warn Bourne of a crippling disaster about t...

Wood,Barbara / Barbara Wood

Barbara Wood nos sorprende con una novela llena de emoción, romance y suspense.El abuelo de Andrea está agonizando. Para estar junto a él, ella se desplaza desde Los Ángeles, donde reside, hasta Manchester, la ciudad inglesa donde nació y que abandonó de pequeña con sus padres. Cuando entra en la vieja casa familiar, Andrea no puede evitar un estremecimiento. En ella no solo...

Kenyon, Sherrilyn / Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ambos proceden de culturas anteriores a la noche de los tiempos y juntos pueden salvar al mundo. La vigesimosegunda novela de la saga romántica paranormal «Cazadores Oscuros».Kateri es una joven geóloga de ascendencia cheroki. Como científica, no debe ni puede creer en las leyendas milenarias que le contaba su abuela. Sin embargo, desde pequeña vive atormentada por sueños pe...

Erica Jong

I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' RACHEL JOYCE, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Vanessa Wonderman is smart, sexy - and sixty. After a lifetime of crazy families, New York high society and playing a soap opera archvillain bitch, she's not ready to give up yet.But life's not so carefree any more. Her pa...

Amos Oz

Amor y oscuridad son dos de las fuerzas que interaccionan en este libro, una autobiografía en forma de novela, una obra literaria compleja que comprende los orígenes de la familia de Amos Oz, la historia de su infancia y juventud, primero en Jerusalén y después en el kibbutz de Hulda, la trágica existencia de sus padres, una descripción épica del Jerusalén y del Tel Aviv, que e...

William Golding

William Golding s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding s compe...

Danler, Stephanie

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. Perfect for readers of Kitchen Confidential and Blood, Bones and Butter. Twenty-two, and knowing no one, Tess leaves home to begi...

Montes,Raphael

A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the p...

Dickens, Charles

Dickens' great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition This is the novel Dickens regarded as his "favourite child" and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of ...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comi...

Katherine Pancol

In this mega-bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is.Fortysomething mother of two Joséphine Cortès is at a crossroads. She has just moved to a posh new apartment in Paris after the success of the historical novel she ghostwrote for her s...

Dickens, Charles

Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume. A TALE OF TWO CITIES After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton,...

Shelley, Mary / Guillermo Del Toro

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro s favorites, from Mary Shelley s Frankenst...

Mcbride, Eimear

Shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the YearThe breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affairEimear McBride's debut novel A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING was published in 2013 to an avalanche of praise: nominated for a host of literary awards, winner of...

Le Carre, John

S. E. Hinton

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

A truly great translation. . .This English version . . . really is better. A. N. Wilson, The Spectator This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky s psychological record of a crime gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former st...

Gaiman, Neil

On the plane home to attend the funerals of his wife and best friend, Shadow, just released from prison, encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world, where the soul of America is at stake. 125,000 first printing. ...

Forsyth, Frederick

Desde las pistas de aterrizaje de la selva amazónica hasta los barrios bajos de Bogotá, pasando por las espaciosas oficinas gubernamentales de Washington, Paul Deveraux, alias Cobra, descubre la escalofriante realidad del imperio más poderoso: el de la droga.Frederick Forsyth es, sin duda alguna, el gran maestro del thriller.El presidente de EE.UU. decide desmantelar el tráf...

Verne, Jules (Julio)

En plena región montañosa de Transilvania, no muy lejos de la aldea de Werst, se alza una fortaleza medieval abandonada, el legendario castillo de los Cárpatos. Aunque lleva siglos deshabitado, Frik, el pastor visionario y vendedor de hechizos, ha podido observar que un humo misterioso sale desde hace unos días de su torreón, y ha comenzado a difundir inquietantes rumores entre...

Oz, Amos / Amos Oz

Una entrañable historia sobre la desintegración moral de un hombre en el Israel actual. Efraim Nisan deambula por las calles de Jerusalén sabiendo que lo ha perdido todo y que a todos ha decepcionado: a su ex esposa Yael, a su padre — hombre de ideología conservadora —... Indolente y errático, derrotado e inoperante, su mente solamente es capaz de pensar de verdad cuando se tra...

Strout, Elizabeth / Strout, Elisabeth

Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy s life: her escape from her troubled f...

Beatrice Colin

Since its construction for the 1889 world's fair, la tour Eiffel has become the universal symbol of Paris: slender, elegant, iconic--both a feat of engineering and a distinctive silhouette rising 324 meters above the Seine. It is difficult for visitors--or anyone who has ever seen a photo of the city--to imagine the Parisian skyline without it. But the tower, originally intende...

Hepburn, Sam

Poco después de que la familia de Aliya se instale en Londres, tras su huida de Afganistán, su hermano es acusado de ser un terrorista. Aliya está convencida de su inocencia, pero cuando su amigo Dan, el hijo de un fontanero, encuentra una pistola en el baño de su nueva casa ya no sabe qué pensar. Dan sospecha que la pistola pertenece a su padre, un exconvicto, y permanece en s...

Doerr, Anthony

Un año en Roma es el hermoso y delicado relato autobiográfico del Premio Pulitzer Anthony Doerr sobre su experiencia viviendo en la Ciudad Eterna.Una ciudad inagotable.Una experiencia memorable.Un paseo inolvidable.El día en que nacieron sus dos hijos, Anthony Doerr supo también que había sido galardonado con el Premio Roma, una de las más prestigiosas distinciones otorgadas...

Grisham, John / John Grisham

El narrador favorito de Estados Unidos, maestro del thriller legal, sorprende con una novela valiente, aguda y fascinante, protagonizada por un personaje sin igual.No va a permitir que la verdad se interponga en el camino de la justicia...Sebastian Rudd no es el típico abogado: lleva arma y su oficina es una camioneta a prueba de balas conducida por su guardaespaldas, que a...

Philip Roth

Our official movie tie-in edition of Philip Roth's bestselling contemporary classic: a powerful tale of youth, ambition, love, and fate set on an Ohio college campus in 1951 as the Korean War rages halfway across the globe. Now a major motion picture directed by James Schamus.Ohio, 1951: Marcus Messner, an intense and studious young man, begins his sophomore year at Winesburg C...

Chris Pavone

It's 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is? Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he's living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse. Soon Wil...

Steel, Danielle

They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire finds the spacious loft apartment. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage the rent. She meets Abby, a writer trying to make it on her own, far from her successful family in L.A. Then Morgan joins them. She's ambitious, with a seriou...