Penguin Essentials – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has …

Hunter S. Thompson

Hell's Angels

Shoulder-length hair streaming, swastikas jangling, filthy death's-head-emblazoned denims crackling in the wind - the Hell's Angels are out on a run, and America's West Coast cowers in loathing. Press rep…

Nicole Krauss

History of Love

Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

E. M. Forster

A Passage to India

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her elderly compan…

Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.' America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York…

Rock 'n' Roll Christmas: The Absolute Essential 3 CD Collection

Dharini Balasubramaniam,

Click, Connect, Compute: Computer Science Essentials

Computer science fundamentals for children, using clear, expert explanations and comic illustrations to spark interest and enthusiasm in the next generation of computer scientists!

W. G. Sebald,

Austerlitz

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he gro…

Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn

Colm T ib /b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three ti…

Jonathan Coe

What a Carve Up!

Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the a…

Zoë Heller

Notes on a Scandal

'Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive' Guardian From the day that Sheba Hart joins the staff at St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. When Sh…

Jonathan Coe

The Rotters' Club

Niina Ning Zhang proposes a new approach to the count-mass contrast, and the properties and functions of classifiers when they occur with numerals, with various quantifiers, in compounds, and in reduplica…

Tania Blixen

Out of Africa

Presents the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished for ever. Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris a…

Margaret Drabble

The Millstone

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and read English at Cambridge. She was awarded a DBE in 2008. Since the 1960s she has written 17 novels - The Millstone was her third - and she has also edit…

John K. Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader aga…

Muriel Spark

The Girls Of Slender Means

'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of L…

Dharini Balasubramaniam,

Click, Connect, Compute: Computer Science Essentials

Computer science fundamentals for children, using clear, expert explanations and comic illustrations to spark interest and enthusiasm in the next generation of computer scientists!

Stick In The Wheel

Hold Fast

Product Information Stick In The Wheel (singer Nicola Kearey, and guitarist/producer Ian Carter), blend the traditional with their own innovative and unique sound. Their debut From Here (2015) and secon…

Stick In The Wheel

Hold Fast (180g) (Limited Edition) (Neon Yellow Vinyl)

Product Information Stick In The Wheel (singer Nicola Kearey, and guitarist/producer Ian Carter), blend the traditional with their own innovative and unique sound. Their debut From Here (2015) and secon…