The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation   This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's mos...

Bel-Ami

Guy De Maupassant,; Douglas Parmee (translator)

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist...

Ecology of Wisdom

Arne Naess

'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.' Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value made him one of the most inspirational figures in the environmental movement. ...

The Song of the Lark

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers (1913) and preceding My ntonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers...