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Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joycen Ulysses (1922) on usein 1900-luvun tärkeimmäksi sanottu romaani, joka kuvaa jo käsitteiksi muodostuneiden päähenkilöidensä - Leopold ja Molly Bloomin sekä Stephen D...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A K nstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual aw...

Uljas uusi maailma

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxleyn vuonna 1932 ilmestynyt Uljas uusi maailma on George Orwellin Vuonna 1984 -teoksen ohella 1900-luvun tieteiskirjallisuuden kulmakiviä. Tieteen ja kulutusyhteiskunn...

The Sound And The Fury

William Faulkner

Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disin...

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. Itâ??s the closing mon...

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a tota...

Sons and Lovers

D.H. Lawrence

Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawren...

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.'To the red country and part of the gray coun...

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the...

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

Vuonna 1984

George Orwell

Kaikkien aikojen luetuin poliittinen trilleri "Ajatusrikos oli asia jota ei voinut salata iäti. Sen voi pitää piilossa jonkin aikaa, jopa vuosikaudet, mutta ennemmin tai myöhe...

I, Claudius

Robert Graves

Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman, Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cru...

Majakka

Virginia Woolf

Modernin kirjallisuuden ehdoton merkkiteos.Virginia Woolfin Majakka loistaa taiteen valona pimeydessä.Majakan keskiössä on Skyen saarella lomiaan viettävä Ramsayn perhe: rauhall...

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

An American Masterpiece Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gi...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.“A remarkable book...Fro...

Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" (Time). Selected by the Mod...

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'...

Native Son

Wright Richard

Bigger Thomas, a black boy, has to die in the electric chair before he can feel alive. He has to kill before he finds a reason to live - kill the only people who had ever reache...

Henderson the Rain King

Saul Bellow

"It blazes as fiercely and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner) A...

Appointment in Samarra

John O'Hara

Julian English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throws a cocktail in the face of one of his powerful business associ...

U.S.A.: The Complete Trilogy [The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and the Big Money]

John Dos Passos

This gorgeous new paperback edition collects the three volumes of John Dos Passos's acclaimed U.S.A. trilogy, named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern...

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

Sherwood Anderson

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster

'His great book ... masterly in its prescience and its lucidity' ANITA DESAI A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate o...

The Wings of the Dove

Henry James

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantical...

The Ambassadors

Henry James

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes b...

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Studs Lonigan

Farrell James T.

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

Eläinten vallankumous

George Orwell

”Toiset eläimet ovat tasa-arvoisempia kuin toiset.”Kepeän sadun muotoon puettu, totalitarismille irvaileva teos on klassinen tutkielma vallan väärinkäytöstä ja veitsenterävä pol...

The Golden Bowl

Henry James

Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.Mag...

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

A landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy...

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, with an introduction by Philip EadeAfter seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored...

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on t...

Howards End

E. M. Forster; E.M. Forster

The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom th...

Kärpästen herra

William Golding

Peto tappakaa! Kurkku leikatkaa! Nobel-kirjailijan kulttiteos muistuttaa, kuinka ohut on sivistyksen pinta.Toisen maailmansodan aikana joukko englantilaisia koulupoikia pelastau...

Deliverance

ISBN 9780809310302

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWThe dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has...

Aurinko nousee

Mauri Kujala

Kulje hiljaa, elämä odottaa.Matka on askeleita;toiset lyhempiä,toiset pidempiä.Juoksua helteessä,usvaa kylmässä yössä.Repun paino mukanaturmelus, vajavuus,vastatuuli ja varjot.K...

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in Penguin Classics.In the only novel Conrad set in L...

Nostromo: (Joseph Conrad Classics Collection)

Joseph Conrad

The Rainbow

D.H. Lawrence

The surviving text of The Rainbow is collated to provide a text as close as possible to that which the author wrote. Also included are explanatory notes to historical reference...

Women in Love

D.H. Lawrence

Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of t...

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -...

Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

[after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nat...

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles...

Light in August

William Faulkner

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep Sou...

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Mori...

Parade's End

Ford Madox Ford

A story which traces the history of a house and a family at the time of World War I. This is a picture of Edwardian England at its most opulent. Exploring the themes of love, ho...

The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

ISBN 9781593081430

"Age of Innocence," by Edith Wharton, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader...

Zuleika Dobson: an Oxford love story

Max Beerbohm

Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was no...

Moviegoer

Percy Walker

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award 'The Moviegoer' is the dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature. 'The Moviegoer' is...

From Here to Eternity

James Jones

'I'll never understand the fucking Army.'Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier...

Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adol...

Claudius the God

Robert Graves

Continuing the saga begun in I, Claudius, Robert Graves's Claudius the God is a compelling fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor, published with an introduction by Barry...

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improveme...

Washington Square

Henry James

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.When ti...

The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler’s first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandle...

A House for Mr Biswas

V.S. Naipaul

Heart-rending and darkly comic, V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for aut...

Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street, with an introduction by Alexander WaughLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always...

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will b...

Seitsemän veljestä

Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) kirjoitti ystävälleen Kaarli Bergbomille jo ennen romaaninsa ilmestymistä: "... minä itse en veljeksiä koskaan hylkää..." Hän oli valmistellut kirjaa ka...

A Room with a View

E.M. Forster; Malcolm Bradbury

'My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction' Zadie SmithMore than a love story, A Room with a View is a penetrating social comedy and a brilliant study of contrasts -...

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

 The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's...

Kalevala 1835

Elias Lönnrot

Kansallisen itsetuntomme ja itsetietomme peruskivi, 1835 ilmestynyt Kalevalan ensimmäinen painos sisältää perustekstin, toisinnot ja Lönnrotin alkuperäinen esipuheen. Johdannon...

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

An iconic novel of the American West — a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the pastLyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books abo...

A Bend in the River

V.S. Naipaul

Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving to an unnamed country...

Tuntematon sotilas

Väinö Linna

Suuri sotakuvaus, ja kuinka se syntyi.Väinö Linnan rakastettu sotaromaani taustoitettuna juhlapainoksena.Tänä vuonna tulee kuluneeksi 70 vuotta siitä, kun Väinö Linnan Tuntemato...

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century...

Sinuhe egyptiläinen

Mika Waltari

Sinuhe on löytölapsi, joka kasvaa köyhän lääkärin poikana Thebassa. Hän valmistuu itsekin lääkäriksi ja toimii faaraon aivokirurgina. Monien myrskyisten vaiheiden, rakkauksien j...

The Old Wives' Tale

Arnold Bennett

The book is broken up into four parts. The first section, "Mrs Baines" details the adolescence of both Sophia and Constance, and their life in their father's shop and house (a c...

Il richiamo della foresta / Erämaan kutsu

Jack London

Loving, Living, Party Going

Henry Green

Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of work...

Keskiyön lapset

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdien läpimurtoteos.Kaikkien aikojen parhaaksi Booker-voittajaksi valittu Keskiyön lapset on maagisen realismin merkkipaalu, terävä poliittinen satiiri ja humoristinen...

Tobacco Road

Erskine Caldwell

Originally published in 1932, Caldwell's novel told the story of the Lester family, poor Georgia sharecroppers who no longer farmed the land, but lived by whatever means possibl...

Järngräs

William H. Kennedy

The Magus

John Fowles

A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In...

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born...

Under The Net

Iris Murdoch

Jake Donaghue is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living as a translator and by sponging on his friends. Meeting again, after some years, an old flame, Anna, h...

Sophie's Choice

William Styron

In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. Ultima...

The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles

'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman.Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticat...

Puhdistus

Sofi Oksanen

Sofi Oksasen Puhdistus avaa Viron vaiettua lähihistoriaa yhden suvun naisten kokemusten kautta. Teos syntyi näytelmäksi, mutta sen muodonmuutos käsikirjoituksesta romaaniksi onn...

Jäniksen vuosi (juhlapainos)

Arto Paasilinna

Miehen ja jäniksen ihmeellinen pakomatka on suomalaisen huumorin elävä klassikko.Toimittaja Vatanen on saanut tarpeekseen työstään, vaimostaan, koko kaupunkilaisesta elämänmenos...

Kesäkirja

Tove Jansson

Kertomus täynnä lämpöä, lempeää huumoria ja viisauttaKirja kertoo kolmesta ihmisestä, jotka viettävät kesää Suomenlahden saarella: Sophia-lapsesta, hänen isästään ja isoäidistää...