Modern Classics

Author: Donna Hay
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060095245
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
In Modern Classics, Australia's bestselling food writer Donna Hay takes the food from the past we love the most and makes it irresistibly new. Then she looks at what's the best of the new and turns it into a cooking classic. Coleslaw gets a well-deserved makeover while free-form ratatouille tart enters the classics category. Chicken soup comes of age again while the fresh, crunchy and healthy rice paper roll makes its debut. Modem Classics is set to become the contemporary commonsense cookbook of a new generation and an indispensable handbook to those of cooking age now. More practical inspiration from Donna Hay.

The Penguin Modern Classics Book

Author: Henry Eliot
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241441617
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2282

Book Description
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

The Penguin Classics Book

Author: Henry Eliot
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141990937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1904

Book Description
**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year** The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.

Modern Classics

Author: Donna Hay
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007148704
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The first of a duo of titles, Modern Classics: Book 1 revisits the classics with a modern edge and presents the essential recipes of contemporary cooking. Make a roast, make the ultimate meat pie, whisk up the perfect salad dressing. Donna Hay's modern classics should become the handbooks of a new generation of home cooks and indispensable refresher manuals for those who came before them. Chapter by chapter, Donna Hay gives you the basics, step by step, as well as some simple recipes to use every day, then takes you beyond with extras, variations and twists for special occasions and adventurous days. The recipes include soups, salads, vegetables, roasts and simmers, pasta and delicious pies.

Breaking into Japanese Literature

Author: Giles Murray
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1568365896
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary - plus downloadable audio. Breaking into Japanese Literature lets readers enjoy seven classic stories in the original Japanese. thanks to a unique 2-page layout featuring the Japanese text in large type, an easy-to-follow English translation, and a custom dictionary, newly revised for this edition. Also includes downloadable audio, notes about the stories and authors, and original illustrations.

Youth

Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241405564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a chequered career in a string of low-paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As Europe slides into war, she must navigate exploitative bosses, a Nazi landlady and unwelcome sexual encounters on the road to hard-won independence. Yet she remains ruthlessly determined in the pursuit of her poetic vocation - until at last the miracle she has always dreamed of appears to be within reach. Youth, the second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, is a strikingly honest and immersive portrait of adolescence, filled with biting humour, vulnerability and poeticism.

Modern Classics Collection Deluxe Edition

Author: Robert Ludlum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555800161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Archie: Modern Classics Vol. 2

Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications (Trade)
ISBN: 1645769666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This is Archie's new sister series to our all-time best-selling graphic novel series, featuring a focus on the latest and greatest stories from the previous year of digests. After 75+ years of humorous tales, the Riverdale gang are still going strong! Archie is proud to present the best stories from 2019 - collected for the first time ever. Don't miss these modern classics!

In the Making

Author: G. F. Green
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141970774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce him to all the pleasures, pains and perplexities of first love. A unique, enchanting and complicated coming-of-age story about the passion between two young boys, In the Making is widely hailed as G. F. Green's masterpiece, and is now in print for the first time since its original publication in 1952.

London Belongs to Me

Author: Norman Collins
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141191244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 839

Book Description
It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new lodger, a self-styled 'Professor of Spiritualism'); and flashy young mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much, much worse ... Includes an introduction by Ed Glinert, as well as explanatory footnotes.