This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Three vibrant stories by author Katherine Mansfield, retold by Mar...
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door...
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre ...
In this first of two collections of short stories, we find our favorite Sailor Guardians and their friends encountering new mysteries, enemies, allies, and once more saving the day. After the daughter...
The second collection of short stories actually consists of one long, and two short tales. The first and longest story pays homage to one of the oldest folk tales of Japan, “the Tale of the Bamboo Cut...
A collection of 24 stories, including "The Alien Corn", about an aspiringpianist who commits suicide when told he will never be better than secondrate, and "Rain", characteristic of Somerset Maugham's...
Get an exclusive behind the scenes look of how, in a typical day and a typical X-Factor case, Pip the Troll holds the entire team together without their knowledge. Plus: a newly-married X-Factor coupl...
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the `swarm and confusion of life`. Defying ...
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a...
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Tim...
This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1961 to 1993, leading up to Seed of Destruction. It includes stories from the Hellboy collections The Troll Witch, The Chained Coffin, The Bride o...
The ultimate introduction to this supernatural hero features 16 standalone stories with Mignola’s greatest collaborators—stories that can be read in any order. In 1994, Mike Mignola released the firs...
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family ofwolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo thesleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? H...
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia and "The Overcoat," widely considered a masterpiece of form.
New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her...
A train is a closed world. Each carriage is like a small room, with windows and doors, but you can't get out when the train is moving. The world outside is far away, and you can forget your home, your...
These six powerful short stories chronicle bits of the lives of characters, major and minor, who have walked the rugged terrain of Chris Crutcher's earlier works. They also introduce some new and unfo...
This collection of Somerset Maugham's short stories includes stories based in England, France and Spain, as well as the South Pacific. It includes "Rain", the tradgedy of a missionary and a prostitute...
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to the U.S. to England and include some of Maugham a tale of the unexpected love between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate.
This third volume of Maughams own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well...
This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham in Malaya and South East Asia.
Includes Dickens, Wilde, Trollope, Hardy, Chekov, Maupassant and many more. Notes accompany the tales.
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle', Bret Harte's 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', Sherwoo...
Język angielski - Poziom B2 Lubisz czytać dobre powieści a jednocześnie chcesz doskonalić swój angielski? Mamy dla Ciebie idealne połączenie! Klasyka literatury światowej w wersji do nauki języka...
Some of the freshest, most vital, and diverse new literature written in the twentieth century has emerged from the Caribbean. And central to Caribbean literature is the short story, with its ties with...