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my year of rest and relaxation
ottessa moshfegh
Violets Bent Backwords Over The Grass
lana del rey
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 1814
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Beloved
Toni Morrison
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas)
Simone De Beauvoir · 2021
The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir<br/><br/>How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.<br/><br/>Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Persuasion (The Penguin English Library)
Jane Austen · 1817
With An Essay By Elizabeth Bowen 'her Attachment And Regrets Had, For A Long Time, Clouded Every Enjoyment Of Youth; And An Early Loss Of Bloom And Spirits Had Been Their Lasting Effect' Persuasion, Jane Austen's Last Novel, Is A Moving, Masterly And Elegiac Love Story Tinged With The Heartache Of Missed Opportunities. It Tells The Story Of Anne Elliot, Who, Persuaded To Break Off Her Engagement To The Man She Loved Because He Was Not Successful Enough, Has Never Forgotten Him. When He Returns, He Brings With Him A Tantalizing Second Chance Of Happiness ... The Penguin English Library - 100 Editions Of The Best Fiction In English, From The Eighteenth Century And The Very First Novels To The Beginning Of The First World War.
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read<br/><br/>Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.<br/>This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky’s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky’s life and work.
Babel
R.F. Kuang · 2022
A New Dark Academic Fantasy By The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Poppy War Traduttore, Traditore: An Act Of Translation Is Always An Act Of Betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The City Of Dreaming Spires. It Is The Centre Of All Knowledge And Progress In The World. And At Its Centre Is Babel, The Royal Institute Of Translation. The Tower From Which All The Power Of The Empire Flows. Orphaned In Canton And Brought To England By A Mysterious Guardian, Babel Seemed Like Paradise To Robin Swift. Until It Became A Prison... But Can A Student Stand Against An Empire? An Incendiary New Novel From Award-winning Author R.f. Kuang About The Power Of Language, The Violence Of Colonialism, And The Sacrifices Of Resistance.
Dracula (Penguin Clothbound)
Bram Stoker · 2011
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
