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David Barrett

    Doctor Glas
    The frogs
    Empire of the Deep
    • The frogs

      • 128 Seiten
      • 5 Lesestunden

      'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax! Now listen, you musical twerps, I don't give a damn for your burps!' A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

      The frogs2016
      3,8
    • Doctor Glas

      • 146 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden

      Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. A masterpiece of enduring power, <i>Doctor Glas</i> confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.

      Doctor Glas2015
    • Empire of the Deep

      • 692 Seiten
      • 25 Lesestunden

      The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.

      Empire of the Deep2014
      4,4