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A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'' Swift''s devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Swift''s works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver''s Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings .

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A Modest Proposal and Other Writings - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Modest Proposal and Other Writings - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift''s savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical ''solution'' suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armoury and corrosive wit, finding his targets - the British ruling class and avaricious landlords, and the brutalized Irish, complicit in their own oppression - with deadly precision. His masterly essay is accompanied by a generous selection of prose works, among them pamphlets attacking British rule in his native Ireland, periodical essays critiquing the new capitalist and military classes, a journal detailing his political activities in London, a loving tribute to his beloved ''Stella'' after her death and pieces on such diverse subjects as the absurdities of astrology, the joys of punning and comical rules for servants. Ingenious and unconventional, Swift is revealed here as one of the greatest satirists in the English language.In her introduction to this new edition, Carol Fabricant discusses Swift''s life and turbulent times, his political views and his powers as a writer of complex irony and intricate word play. This volume also includes a chronology, further reading, a glossary, notes and a biographical dictionary.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six, Swift later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain''s repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift''s best known works are his ironic masterpiece, ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver''s Travels (1726).If you enjoyed A Modest Proposal , you might like Alexander Pope''s The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings, also available in Penguin Classics.

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Bomber County - Daniel Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bomber County - Daniel Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One night in June 1943 James Swift, along with the Lancaster bomber he piloted, vanished. In Bomber County , his grandson Daniel seeks to discover what happened. At the same time he tries to understand the men who took part in these dangerous raids, as well as their devastating impact on the civilians below. In examining the life of one pilot, Daniel Swift also investigates why it is we have tried to forget what was then a new, shocking form of warfare, and why literature and poetry exploring these terrible losses have not found the recognition they deserve.

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver''s Travels by Jonathan Swift ''Fifteen hundred of the Emperor''s largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'' A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver''s Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever. Swift''s classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves.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.

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift''s Gulliver''s Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliver''s Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship''s surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver''s final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver''s Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six, Swift later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain''s repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift''s best known works is his ironic masterpiece, ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver''s Travels (1726).If you enjoyed Gulliver''s Travels , you might like H.G. Wells''s The Time Machine , also available in Penguin Classics.''A masterwork of irony ... that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creativity of imagination''Malcolm Bradbury

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Jonathan Swift - John Stubbs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift - John Stubbs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men''s vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice - a man sharply aware of humanity''s flaws, but no less susceptible to them.As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne , John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift''s savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

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Optimal - Cary Cherniss - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Optimal - Cary Cherniss - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘Actionable tools and insights that are essential to unlocking your potential’ Oscar Munoz, former CEO of United AirlinesIn his groundbreaking bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction. There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfilment doesn’t come from isolated peak experiences, or elusive ‘flow’ states, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a productive day, any day – to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Based on decades of research on how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance. Optimal will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance

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Optimal - Daniel Goleman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Optimal - Daniel Goleman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman and co-author Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of EI to enter an optimal state of high performance, offering a roadmap to being at your best, every day. There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often fleeting, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfillment doesn’t come from isolated peak experiences, or elusive ‘flow’ states, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance? In Optimal , Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you’ve had a productive day — to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance. Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity and more satisfying days. In this book, you’ll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.

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Optimal - Daniel Goleman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Optimal - Daniel Goleman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman and co-author Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of emotional intelligence to enter an optimal state of high performance, offering a roadmap to being at your best, every day. There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often fleeting, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfillment doesn’t come from isolated peak experiences, or elusive ‘flow’ states, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you’ve had a productive day — to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity and more satisfying days. In this book, you’ll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.

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Sable Peak - Devney Perry - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sable Peak - Devney Perry - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Get ready for small towns stirred by mystery and desire in the heart-pumping sixth story in the Eden series . . . For four years Vera Gallagher''s life was anything but normal and she refused to remember the years before that. The past is a painful wound and life is fragile . . . Her mother taught her that. Now, she’s determined not to waste a moment of her newfound freedom.Mateo Eden’s handsome. Charming. Witty. And he loves his family the way Vera loves-with her whole heart.Some could consider her crush on Mateo Eden wasted time. Or call her a fool for loving a man who hasn''t shown her a crumb of interest. Still, to Vera, it''s Mateo or nothing.Maybe he''ll never notice her. Maybe she''s just too damaged to find that normal life she desperately craves. Maybe her secrets will always keep them apart. But Vera will love him anyway. Whether Mateo realizes it or not.

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The Wrath of Achilles - Homer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Wrath of Achilles - Homer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begins to spin . . . From frenzied rampages to intimate moments of grief, this selection from Homer’s Iliad traces the tale of a warrior whose name echoes through the ages, and whose story remains as powerful as ever.

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No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Bronte - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Bronte - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksYes, as my swift days near their goal,’Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë’s heart-rending poems, we uncover a soul unafraid to confront mortality, tragedy and the wild cruelty – and beauty – of nature. These verses capture her profound passion and indomitable spirit, plumbing the depths of the human heart and revealing the raw power of Brontë’s poetic genius.

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The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Vladimir Nabokov''s early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt ''contains and diffuses the greatest warmth''.

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The Defense - Vladimir Nabokov - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Defense - Vladimir Nabokov - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.

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Walk Through Walls - Marina Abramovic - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Walk Through Walls - Marina Abramovic - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate'' Observer This memoir spans Marina Abramovic''s five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years. Abramovic has collaborated with stars from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, James Franco and Willem Dafoe. Best known for her recent pieces ''The Artist is Present'' and ''512 Hours'', this book is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important artists working today, and the woman who has been described as ''the grandmother of performance art''.

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - John Mandeville - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - John Mandeville - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan''s army, and to have travelled in ''the lands beyond'' - countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies. Although Marco Polo''s slightly earlier narrative ultimately proved more factually accurate, Mandeville''s was widely known, used by Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Frobisher, and inspiring writers as diverse as Swift, Defoe and Coleridge. This intriguing blend of fact, exaggeration and absurdity offers both fascinating insight into and subtle criticism of fourteenth-century conceptions of the world.

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Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In John le Carré''s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor , innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain''s Intelligence Establishment. ''If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré''s latest thriller'' Evening Standard ''Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance'' Sunday Times

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Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In John le Carré''s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor , innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain''s Intelligence Establishment. ''If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré''s latest thriller'' Evening Standard ''Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance'' Sunday Times

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The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry - Patrick Crotty - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry - Patrick Crotty - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland''s complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe''s oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.

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The Pity of it All - Amos Elon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Pity of it All - Amos Elon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich.As it is usually told, the story of the Jews in Germany starts at the end, overshadowed by their tragic demise in Hitler''s Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, the acclaimed historian and social critic Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a 150-year period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy - Len Deighton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy - Len Deighton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The master at his peak'' Daily Telegraph A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the stars. But when an insubordinate British agent and a top CIA operative are sent to the Sahara desert to bring him in, things don''t go to plan. The result is a violent chase stretching across three continents, where loyalties - between spies, partners, nations and lovers - become fatally divided.''Classic, world-ranging, marvellously knowledgeable ... in a word, quality'' The Times ''Tightly and complicatedly plotted, so credible in detail'' Financial Times A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

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My Father's Tears and Other Stories - John Updike - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

My Father's Tears and Other Stories - John Updike - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.''Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike''s genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent that burnt brightly goes out in a blaze of brilliance'' Sunday Times ''A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; "domestic duplicity"; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks'' Metro

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The Plague - Albert Camus - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Plague - Albert Camus - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A story for our, and all, times'' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus''s world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France''s suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.''A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice'' Independent ''Magnificent'' The Times

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Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ''I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!'' she exclaimed. ''Nor will I for a minute'' Hardy''s powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and betrayal. Vividly portraying the superstitions and traditions of a small rural community, Far from the Madding Crowd shows the precarious position of a woman in a man''s world.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.

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