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From finding a diamond in a bird''s stomach, to stealing a racehorse - in these four stories, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes works with his friend Dr Watson. Holmes understands people and he finds many clues. But will he solve the crimes?Our Penguin Readers books include:    Sim..

Penguin's commemorative hardback reissue of One Hundred Years of Solitude by late Nobel laureate and author Gabriel García Márquez is a timeless classic and the perfect Christmas gift for any booklover. Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his st..

Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather.But no man can stay on top forever, not when he has enemies on both sides of the law..

When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Aly..

My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives read..

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fu..

Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm ..

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of..

„Сломената жена“ (1968) е излизала на български език с логото на Колибри през 2007 г. и ето че една генерация по-късно се появява отново, вече като част от Бисерната поредица на издателството, в съвсем естествената компания на други две също толкова безмилостно проницателни, авторефлексивни ..

Красивата и независима Вирсавия Евърдийн наследява богато имение и решава да го управлява сама. Тя отхвърля предложението за брак от предания и скромен овчар Габриел Оук, защото не го обича. В същото време фриволното ѝ и лекомислено флиртуване с богатия и уважаван съсед – господин Болдуд, отприщва д..

Фьодор Михайлович Достоевски оставя след себе си незабравими романи като „Престъпление и наказание", „Идиот" и „Братя Карамазови", които го нареждат сред най-значимите философи и психолози в историята на художествената литература.В богатото му творчество особено място заема повестта „Кротката". Публ..

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve ..