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F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780-141-18557-6

Pages: 304

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Ciassics

Price: 4600 AMD

 

 

The story of a young man’s painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald’s own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, ‘grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken’ and wanting money and success more than anything else.

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18781-5

Pages: 384

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 5700 AMD

 

 

Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth. But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible...


F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of

Benjamin Button

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-19019-8

Pages: 208

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4600 AMD

 

Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse...

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Last Tycoon

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18563-7

Pages: 208

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4400 AMD


 

Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'. 
A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr...


F.Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18359-6

Pages: 400

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Ciassics

Price: 4600 AMD

 

 


.... Tender is the Night is an exquisite novel that reflects not only Fitzgerald's own personal tragedy, but also the shattered idealism of the society in which he lived.


V. Woolf

Orlando

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18427-2

Pages: 272

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4400 AMD

 

Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic, bisexual, writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex and identity at will...

 

V. Woolf

A Room of One’s Own

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18353-4

Pages: 112

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 3900 AMD

 

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity...

 

A. de Saint-Exupery

Wind, Sand and Stars

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18319-0

Pages: 119

Published: 2000

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 3600 AMD

In 1926 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) is drawn from this experience. Interweaving stories of encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a rich autobiographical narrative it has its climax in the extraordinary story of Saint-Exupéry's crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival.

A. de Saint-Exupery

Soutern Mail and Night flight

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18374-9

Pages: 175

Published: 2000

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4500 AMD

 


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight. Based on Saint-Exupéry's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, the Andes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks...


A. de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18562-0

Pages: 118

Published: 2000

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4500 AMD

 

 

 

 

 


J. Austen

Persuasion

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062348-2

Pages: 254

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1700 AMD

 

 


At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen’s last completed novel.

 

J. Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062321-5

Pages: 299

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1800 AMD

 

 


In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, when Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.


J. Austen

Northanger Abbey

Format: paperback

ISBN:978-014-062380-2

Pages: 236

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1600 AMD


During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue...


J. Austen

Mansfield Park

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062314-7

Pages: 479

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 2000 AMD

 

 

 


Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation...

 


J. Austen

Emma

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062330-7

Pages: 367

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 2000 AMD

 

 

 

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.

 

J. Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062327-7

Pages:374

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 2000 AMD

 

 


Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her...

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the night

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062359-8

Pages: 392

Published: 2001

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 2000 AMD

 

 


It is to the theme of money, its corruption and destructive power, that F. Scott Fitzgerald returns in this, his most tantalizing and ambitious novel. The story of Dick and Nicole's disintegrating marriage and spoilt promise reflects Fitzgerald's own dive into drink and despair — and, of course, the insanity that so cruelly dogged his wife Zelda.

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062323-9

Pages: 188

Published: 2001

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1800 AMD

 

 


In these two novels, F.Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties.

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Diamond As Big As The Ritz

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-19776-0

Pages: 192

Published: 2001

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1800 AMD

 


'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that the very existence of this domain has to remain a jealously guarded secret.



P. Coelho

The devil and Miss Prym

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-06-115428-7

Pages: 205

Published: 2006

Publisher: Harper

Price: 4700 AMD

 


From bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a novel set in a small village about a young, poor barmaid whose wager with the devil leads to a spiritual transformation.

 

 

P. Coelho

Brida

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-00-727446-8

Pages: 272

Published: 2008

Publisher: Harper

Price: 4700 AMD

 

 

 

This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, and has taken courses in astrology, tarot, and numerology, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about the world. Her teachers sense that Brida has a gift, but cannot tell what that is…

 

 

P. Coelho

The Witch of Portobello

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-00-727446-8

Pages: 268

Published: 2008

Publisher: Harper

Price: 4700 AMD



How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of whom we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all.


 


G. Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18920-8

Pages: 424

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4600 AMD


Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

 

G. Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of

Solitude

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18499-9

Pages: 424

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4600 AMD

 

Famously associated with the term ‘magical realism’, Marquez is probably South America’s most famous literary export. Equally tragic, joyful and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude inhabits a strange dream-like space where very little makes real sense, but everything is mysteriously and vividly alive nonetheless....


T. Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18279-7

Pages: 157

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4300 AMD

 

 

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

 

A. Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18275-9

Pages: 339

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4600 AMD


 

Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's Diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality, the conflicts with her mother, her passion for Peter, a boy whose family ....

 

F. Kafka

Amerika

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18838-6

Pages: 218

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4600 AMD

 

 

Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent.


J. Updike

The Witches of Eastwick

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-18897-3

Pages: 313

Published: 2011

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 4600 AMD

 

 

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...


F. Sagan

Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-44230-3

Pages: 214

Published: 2008

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 3900 AMD

 


Published when she was only nineteen, Françoise Sagan’s astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an instant bestseller. It tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that...

 

C. Bronte

Jane Eyre

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062325-3

Pages: 447

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 2200 AMD

 

 


 

Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them - until she learns the terrible secret of the attic.


E. Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062333-8

Pages: 279

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1700 AMD

 


 

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him.


W. Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062338-3

Pages: 155

Published: 2001

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1300 AMD

 

 


A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.


 

W. Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-141-19773-9

Pages: 125

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1500 AMD

 

 


A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper. Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this sparkling and irresistible comedy.


W. Shakespeare

Hamlet

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-140-62337-6

Pages: 190

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1400 AMD

 

 


A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

 

W. Shakespeare

As You Like It

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062372-7

Pages: 126

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1200 AMD


 

 

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple weddings.


W. Shakespeare

Othello

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062372-7

Pages: 126

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1200 AMD

 

 

 

A popular soldier and newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife's fidelity, he is gradually consumed by suspicion. In this powerful tragedy, innocence is corrupted and trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies.


W. Shakespeare

Macbeth

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062347-5

Pages: 124

Published: 2010

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1200 AMD

 

 

 

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.


W. Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062377-2

Pages: 126

Published: 2001

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1200 AMD

 

 

 

 

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess's steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.


W. Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-062369-7

Pages: 106

Published: 2001

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 1200 AMD

 


A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells.


E. Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love

Format: paperback

ISBN: 978-0-14-311843-5

Pages: 445

Published: 2006

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Price: 5600 AMD

 

 


In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want - husband, country home, successful career - but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and of what she found in their place.