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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024 Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history Beginning one morning in December, We Do...

1920년대 '재즈 시대'의 충실한 재현, 통속적 사랑 이야기에 맞닿아 있는 '아메리칸드림', 이스트에그와 웨스트에그라는 공간적 배경에 담긴 동부와 중서부의 관계 묘사. 피츠제럴드는 자신의 경험을 바탕으로 한 자전적 소설...

This epic chronicle by Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) continues with the lives of great Grecians and Romans. These biographies of the men who created the ancient world are brought to life in this new, high-quality recording. Legends such as Caesar, Alexander, Cicero, Demosthenes, and many others come alive as their politics, economy, and their individual stories play out in the time of the ancients. This translation is by John Dryden and is considered by scholars to be the quintessential translation.

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid...

Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.

In Heaven, a 14-year-old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror?

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is now streaming on Netflix From “the greatest contemporary writer of the thriller” (NYTBR) comes the latest installment in the bestselling Harry Hole series “Harry Hole is an all-time great character—for me, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight.”...

As a result of the divine spirits' protection, Agnes has an unusual and often embarrassing power: whenever she experiences strong emotions, she makes mushrooms sprout on people! One day, her royal fiancé, who claims to have dragon blood, breaks off his engagement to Agnes, claiming to have found his true soulmate. Her reputation tarnished, Agnes vows to return to commoner life when she's unexpectedly summoned to a ball by her ex-fiancé's cousin: a prince who is far from horrified by her mushrooming him.

Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill.

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th century literature. Within a Budding Grove is the second of seven volumes. The young narrator, experiencing his youthful sexuality, falls under the spell of a group of adolescent girls, succumbs to the charms of the enchanting Gilberte, and visits a brothel where he meets Rachel. His impressions of life are also stimulated by the painter, Elstir, and his encounter with another girl, Albertine.

On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be.

For the first time in audio, Marguerite Yourcenar's masterpiece—an extraordinary novel based on the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the Emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, this work is as extraordinary for its...

Nate har ikke haft det nemt. Som barn blev han tortureret af mennesker i et laboratorium, og som voksen blev han forbandet med udødelighed. Som kriger har han intet at miste og intet at leve for.Håbet tændes da han møder Nalla. Der er bare ét problem. Han har lovet Zsadist at holde sig langt væk fra hans datter. Og da han får muligheden for at gøre en ende på sit udødelige liv, siger han ja uden at tøve. Hvad der begyndte med stor lidenskab, risikerer at ende i evig sorg, uden nogen chance for genforening i Tysthedens Land.

Exiled to four years in Siberia, but hailed by the end of his life as a saint, prophet, and genius, Fyodor Dostoevsky holds an exalted place among the best of the great Russian authors. One of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils follows the travails of a small provincial town beset by a band of modish radicals - and in so doing presents a devastating depiction of life and politics in late 19th-century Imperial Russia.

Dos almas desventuradas y solitarias que se encuentran. No pueden ser amigos y de aventuras, ni hablar… Valentine March es la hija de un estricto vicario, una solterona, o eso parece. Ha conseguido un nuevo empleo como dama de compañía en Yorkshire, en una casa en la que vive también el...

Un misterio de hace décadas, una heredera imprudente y un lugarteniente de la marina cuyo corazón no será tan fácil ganarse. El lugarteniente Charles Heywood ya está harto de batallas. Cansado y desilusionado, vuelve a Inglaterra para establecerse en el campo y llevar una vida tranquila...

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged...

Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'.

Dieser Podcast ist der ultimative Guide für Erwachsene, die den Kontakt zu ihren Lieblingsdinos aus der Kindheit verloren haben. Eine spannende Reise in ein Land weit vor unserer Zeit. Es gibt nur wenige Themen, für die sich eigentlich jede und jeder einmal im Leben restlos begeistert hat. Eines dieser Themen: Dinosaurier. Diese ausgestorbenen Riesen, die die Kinderzimmer bevölkern. Dinomagazine, Dinofiguren, Dinonudeln,... Der Fantasie ist kein Ende gesetzt. Und Dinosaurier sind auch für Erwachsene spannend.

Unsichtbar, invasiv und weitgehend unbemerkt schleichen sich weiche Formen der Zensur in unsere demokratische Welt ein. Zensur ist eine globale Kraft, die sowohl von kommerziellen Interessen als auch politischen Agenden angetrieben wird. Ai Weiwei - Künstler, Aktivist und eine der...