The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’...
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer ...
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands fr...
Thirteen-year-old Leni is coming of age in a tumultuous time. Caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, she dares to hope that Alaska will lead to a better future...
The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history.Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous ...
There is very little that is certain in economics, except this: there will be another financial crisis. But while we may not be able to stop the next one, we can predict and contain it....
Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus‘An astonishing science fiction phenomenon’ WASHINGTON POSTHerbert’s evocative, epic tale...
Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War Long Island/ New York world of get-rich-quick. The narrator, Nick Ca...
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Wielka powieść amerykańska. Poznaj świat intryg, romansów i emocji targających nowojorskimi elitami epoki prohibicji. Nick Carraway, młody absolwent uniwers...
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their myste...
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands ...
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing ...
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes ...
No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, ...
A scorching and sensational summer novel from the Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Paris Secret and The Rome Affair.Set between the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the crystal blue water...
WELCOME TO PARADISE!Or so the staff say as they greet the Hamiltons on the pristine shores of the idyllic Maldives resort.And it starts off that way: snorkelling in the sere...
In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space...
It begins with the house – and a body:Alan Hobbes stabbed to death in his own bed.For years, he’s lived as a recluse in the remains of a derelict mansion that once bel...
Brilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman’s escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books.Sophie&...
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repr...