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A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell andmore, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron.When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people.Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables.In March of 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fictionfrom some of the finest writers working today help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction?These twenty-nine new stories, from authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and David Mitchell vary widely in texture and tone. Their work will be remembered as a historical tribute to a time and place unlike any other in ourlifetimes, and offer perspective and solace to the reader now and in a future where coronavirus is, hopefully, just a memory.Table of Contents:Preface by Caitlin RoperIntroduction by Rivka GalchenRecognition by Victor LaValleA Blue Sky Like This by Mona AwadThe Walk by Kamila ShamsieTales from the LA River by Colm ToibinClinical Notes by Liz MooreThe Team by Tommy OrangeThe Rock by Leila SlimaniImpatient Griselda by Margaret AtwoodUnder the Magnolia by Yiyun LiOutside by Etgar KeretKeepsakes by Andrew O'HaganThe Girl with the Big Red Suitcase by Rachel KushnerThe Morningside by Tea ObrehtScreen Time by Alejandro ZambraHow We Used to Play by Dinaw MengestuLine 19 Woodstock/Glisan by Karen RussellIf Wishes Was Horses by David MitchellSystems by Charles YuThe Perfect Travel Buddy by Paolo GiordanoAn Obliging Robber by Mia CuotoSleep by Uzodinma IwealaPrudent Girls by Rivers SolomonThat Time at My Brother's Wedding by Laila LalamiA Time of Death, The Death of Time by Julian FuksThe Cellar by Dina NayeliOrigin Story by Matthew BakerTo the Wall by Esi EdugyanBarcelona: Open City by John WrayOne Thing by Edwidge Danticat

Frank Herbert A Dűne gyermekeiben továbbviszi az Atreides-dinasztia és a magával ragadó sivatagbolygó történetét. A szerző, miközben a társadalmat mozgató erőket vizsgálja, bemutatja azt is, milyen döntésekre kényszerülnek azok, akik milliárdok sorsáralehetnek hatással, és hogy az emberek gyakran olyan tettekre kényszerülnek, melyekért hatalmas árat kell fizetniük.A Dűne örökre megváltozott. Paul Muad-Dib, a Kwisatz Haderach, a jövőbe látó messiás olyan folyamatokat indított el, amelyek túlnőttek az embereken, és a mindenség legfontosabb helyévé tették az Arrakist. Ám Muad-Dib nincs többé, elnyelte a sivatagmélye. Öröksége azonban tovább él.Paul gyermekei, Leto és Ghanima kénytelenek szembenézni a sorssal, melyet a történelem nekik rendelt. Az Impérium trónjának várományosaiként nemcsak emberek milliárdjai imádják és gyűlölik őket, de a legveszedelmesebb politikai intrikák középpontjábanállnak. Mi a terve Aliának, aki Régensként uralja a világegyetemet? Miért tér vissza évtizedes távollét után nagyanyjuk, Lady Jessica az Arrakisra? Kicsoda a titokzatos Prédikátor, aki a Mahdi egyháza és az új világ ellen szónokol? És hogyan változnakmeg az erőviszonyok, amikor újra színre lépnek a trónfosztott Corrinók? Az ikreknek és támogatóiknak nemsokára rá kell döbbenniük, hogy az események sokkal nagyobb áldozatot követelnek tőlük, mint amire eddig gondoltak volna.Frank Herbert A Dűne gyermekeiben továbbviszi az Atreides-dinasztia és a magával ragadó sivatagbolygó történetét. A szerző, miközben a társadalmat mozgató erőket vizsgálja, bemutatja azt is, milyen döntésekre kényszerülnek azok, akik milliárdok sorsáralehetnek hatással, és hogy az emberek gyakran olyan tettekre kényszerülnek, melyekért hatalmas árat kell fizetniük.A szerzőről:Frank Herbert (1920-1986) a modern science fiction egyik legfontosabb szerzője. Első regénye 1956-ban jelent meg, de az igazi sikert az 1965-ben kiadott Dűne hozta meg számára. A könyv több díjat nyert, többször választották a sci-fi legjobbjának,egyetemi tananyagként oktatják, és egyike a legnagyobb hatású regényeknek a zsánerben. Többen próbálkoztak a megfilmesítésével, a legismertebb David Lynch 1984-es mozifilmje, a legújabb pedig Denis Villeneuve rendezésében érkezik 2020-ban. Herbert aDűnéhez öt folytatást írt, ezeken kívül mintegy másfél tucat regényt publikált önállóan és társszerzőkkel közösen. 2006 óta a Science Fiction Hall of Fame tagja.?

Originally published in 1865, Lewis Carroll?s exquisite Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass have remained revered classics for generations. The story of Alice, an inquisitive heroine who falls through a rabbit hole and into awhimsical world, has captured the hearts of readers of all ages. Perhaps the most popular female character in English literature, Alice is accompanied on her journey of trials and tribulations by the frantic White Rabbit, the demented and terrifyingQueen of Hearts, the intriguing Mad Hatter, and many other eccentric characters. Lewis Carroll?s beloved companion stories Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are reinvented on one volume by the talented design firm MinaLima,whose fey drawings of some of Western literature?s most famous characters will delight and enthrall, In addition, they have created interactive features exclusive to this edition, including:

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.'Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge the murder of his father by his brother Claudius is both powerful and complex. As Hamlet tries to find out the truth of the situation, histroubled relationship with his mother comes to the fore, as do the paradoxes in his personality. A play of carefully crafted conflict and tragedy, Shakespeare's intricate dialogue continues to fascinate audiences to this day.1 672 FtFree delivery worldwidePrice includes VAT/import taxes for EU deliveryAvailable. Expected delivery to Hungary in 15-20 business days.Not ordering to Hungary? Click here.

Something's not right here. In the house. With the family. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly-graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple form a powerful dynasty of mill owners, shehopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beau, mysterious Mrs England. Ostracised by the other servants and feeling increasinglyuneasy, soon a series of strange events will force Ruby to question everything she thought she knew... Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, weaving an enthralling story of men and women, power andcontrol, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. Set against the atmospheric West Yorkshire landscape, Stacey Halls' third novel proves her one of the most exciting and compelling new storytellers of our times.

At the end of the world, who can you trust? The story of one teen's fight against an extra-terrestrial invasion. For fans of Michael Grant, Suzanne Collins and Robert Muchamore.London has been targeted by extra-terrestrial life and victims are transported to a terrifying other world.Amy Sullivan is an unwilling hero. She runs until she can't run any more. Then, she is taken.To have a chance of saving herself, and her planet, Amy will have to put faith in those she fears the most. But what if it means becoming a traitor to everyone she has ever loved?A modern-day War of the Worlds from one of Iceland's bestselling authors.

Sullo sfondo di una Napoli dalle atmosfere grevi e soffocanti il viaggio di Delia all'interno di se stessa e del suo passato, nel tentativo di capire i motivi che hanno portato la madre a una morte misteriosa. I ricordi si aprono in un confronto con lafigura della madre mai capita fino in fondo, amata e odiata a un tempo. Passato e presente si intrecciano e si confondono mentre Delia si sorprende a scoprire nuovi aspetti della sua personalita e di quella di sua madre. E finalmente i vuoti siriempiono, lasciando un senso di pacificazione. Un libro che scava nel rapporto madre-figlia senza nessuna indulgenza, con un linguaggio lucido e scarno che proprio per questo c ancora piu incisivo e intenso. Un thriller domestico amaro e pieno di

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across themoth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle ofAmerica to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman.Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his deeply funny new memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. It was ahappy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. But in Bryson's hands, it becomes everyone's story, one that will speak volumes - especiallyto anyone who has ever been young.

'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of GrassIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride overVictorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage

Cassie Greenberg needs a new place to live, and fast. When she finds an affordable apartment in a beautiful neighbourhood, she knows there must be a catch. Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is outat night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel. He is also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, always asks about her day, and doesn't look half bad shirtless on the rare occasions they're both home andawake. There's no denying there's a spark between them - but there's also a secret. . . With true love at stake, will Frederick come clean?

In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination withsimpl

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, andBaloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.

Nova is 32 years old and she is about to see the world for the very first time.Jillian Safinova, Nova to her friends, can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can always find a silver lining. And she can even tell when someone is lying just from the sound of their voice. But there's one thing Nova can't do. She can'tsee.When her brother convinces her to have an operation that will restore her sight, Nova wakes up to a world she no longer understands. Until she meets Kate.As Kate comes into focus, her past threatens to throw them into a different kind of darkness. Can they each learn to see the world in a different  and open their eyes to the lives they could have been living all along?

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narratorcaught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. It is an assault on the sense, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN, IDRIS ELBA, KEVIN COSTNER, MICHAEL CERA AND CHRIS O'DOWD, AND DIRECTED BY AARON SORKIN. Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world -an insider's story of excess and danger, glamour and greed. Molly Bloom formed the most elite high-stakes poker game Hollywood had ever seen - she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to thetable. In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game in existence. Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table. Molly's game became the game for those in theknow-celebrities, business moguls, and millionaires. Molly staged her games in palatial suites with beautiful views and exquisite amenities. She flew privately, dined at exquisite restaurants, hobnobbed with the heads of Hollywood studios, was courted byhandsome leading men, and was privy to the world's most delicious gossip, until it all came crashing down around her and she lost everything. Molly's Game is a behind the scenes look at Molly's game, the life she created, the life she lost, and what shelearned in the process.

Renowned 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes fully in his own time, not haunting his characters with the American past as in his more famous works THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES and THE SCARLET LETTER. Published in 1852, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCEremains a captivating work about

The Kill List: a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, thosemen and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire hisfollowers to kill high profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out.Tasked with what seems like an impossible job is an ex-US marine who has risen through the ranks to become one of America's most effective intelligence chiefs. Now known only as The Tracker, he must gather what scant evidence there is, collate it andunmask The Preacher if he is to prevent the next spate of violent deaths. Aided only by a brilliant teenaged hacker, he must throw out the bait and see whether his deadly target can be drawn from his lair.

Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable novel. Bones is the sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth across America to Baltimore, Maryland, on one last greatadventure, searching for Willy's old teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs Swanson still alive? And if not, what will preventWilly from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?

King novellája egy kisvárosról szól, amely fölött hirtelen egy a levegőből formálódott, áthatolhatatlan pajzs jelenik meg. A történet különös pikantériája, hogy a benne szereplő Maine város valóban létezik az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban. Stephen King jószokása szerint egyre jobban keveri majd a szálakat. Hisz a külvilágtól így elzárt település lakói előbb a túlélésre rendezkednek be. Majd az egység egyre inkább felbomlik a közösségben, és egyre több érdekcsoport alakul, akik előbb-utóbb egymássalkezdenek hadakozni. Ahelyett, hogy az őket fenyegető, külső erőkkel törődnének.Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - and a supernatural element as baffling and chillingas any he's ever conjured. On an entirely normal,beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as thedome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet, teams up with a few intrepid citizens against the town's corrupt politician. But time, under thedome, is running out...UNDER THE DOME is King at his epic best and will capture a brand new readership as well as thrilling his existing fans.

The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture andincreases the volume exponentially.Set in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair withanother onthe eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history.And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture wherefame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with UsLily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately saysyes when Atlas asks her on a date.But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life-and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter's life.Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas's past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance attrue love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover (Anna Todd, bestselling author).

One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street.Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with personal testimonies that take themfrom 17th-century England to wartime Czechoslovakia, the tropical streets of Manila, and 1920s Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silentwoman in black, bearing an unforgettable message.Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about toc hange.

'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems ofthe French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. At the same time, reclaiming the Hellenism that he saw as the most characteristic aspectof the Renaissance, he implicitly celebrated homoerotic friendship.Pater's infamous 'Conclusion', which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studiesreproduces the text of the first edition, recapturing its initial impact, and the Introduction celebrates its doomed attempt to stand out against the processes of industrialization.

The Walker children - also known as Captain John, Mate Susan, Able-Seaman Titty, and Ship's Boy Roger - set sail on the Swallow and head for Wild Cat Island. There they camp under open skies, swim in clear water and go fishing for their dinner. But theirdays are disturbed by the Blackett sisters, the fierce Amazon pirates. The Swallows and Amazons decide to battle it out, and so begins a summer of unforgettable discoveries and incredible adventures.

James Patterson sokkoló tényfeltáró riport-könyve az amerikai futball egyik csillagáról, Aaron Hernandezről. Mint egy üstökös tűnt fel Hernandez az amerikai futtball történetében, s amilyen gyorsan felemelkedett, olyan gyorsan el is bukott. Hernandezt, -akárcsak egykor O.J. Simpsont - gyilkosság vádjával állították bíróság elé, de Hernandez nem úszta meg a börtönt. Idő előtt meghalt a szupersztár. Ebben a lebilincselő műben Patterson a regényeiből már megszokott alapossággal tárja fel valóságot AaronHerandez életéről.Ripped from the headlines . . . Combining in-depth, investigative reporting and fresh interviews, the authors effectively tabloid-proof this shocking, celebrity-driven story by lining up the facts and labeling rumors. --USA TodayAaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life--one that ended in amaximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancée,Shayanna Jenkins.He had it all. A $40 million NFL contract. Fame. Adoration.Until he was convicted of murder, and jailed for life without parole.A true story told by the master of crime fiction, All-American Murder is the tale of Aaron Hernandez, once the NFL's youngest player, a star for the New England Patriots, and a Super Bowl veteran. His every move played out in the headlines, and yet heled a secret life - one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?He'd courted trouble since school, and trouble followed him to the NFL. Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, Hernandez was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro American football player who dated thesister of Hernandez's fiancée.This explosive account of the rise and fall of a life cut short in the dark shadow of fame, culminating in Hernandez's own untimely death behind bars, is built on original, in-depth reporting. Was Hernandez a victim himself, suffering violence-inducingbrain damage from the sport that meant everything to him - or was he just a heartless killer?

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar-and maybe snag him as aprom date-even befriend Wes Bennet. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz's butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawngnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz's in. But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she's shocked to discover that shelikes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love-and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.