'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a...

'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward Said Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed...

Although related to one of the ruling families of Ireland, Columba (c 521-97) became a central figure in the 'Age of Saints' by setting out from his native land and founding his famous monastery on the island of Iona. It was from here...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection...

The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the...

"The Ladder of Perfection" von Clifton Wolters ist eine Übersetzung des spirituellen Klassikers "The Scale of Perfection" von Walter Hilton. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Anleitung zur christlichen Spiritualität und Mystik. Es...

"The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days" ist der erste Band einer fünfbändigen Serie, die auch als "Dream of the Red Chamber" bekannt ist. Dieses klassische chinesische Werk wurde von Cao Xueqin geschrieben und spielt im 18. Jahrhundert...

Maryse Cond¿Author) Maryse Cond¿as born at Pointe-¿itre, Guadeloupe, in 1937 and spent most of her life in West Africa (Guinea, Ghana and Senegal), France and the US, where she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and...

'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention' Boyd...

The poems of two of China's most influential classical poets: Tu Fu, called "China's Shakespeare" (BBC), and Li Po, the subject of Ha Jin's The Banished Immortal and "China's most beloved poet" (The New Yorker) A Penguin Classic Li Po...

"The Plague" von Stuart Gilbert ist eine englische Übersetzung des Originalromans "La Peste" des französischen Autors Albert Camus. Die Geschichte spielt in der algerischen Stadt Oran, die von einer tödlichen Pestepidemie heimgesucht...

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...