The Three Electroknights

The Three Electroknights PDF Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339398
Category : Science fiction, Polish
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

The Veiled Woman

The Veiled Woman PDF Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Noveller. Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces

Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines PDF Author: Stanisław Lem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156621618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Publisher description: Translated from the original Polish text, and with an introduction by Michael Kandel. These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Stainslaw Lem's fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. The first eleven stories, a cycle called "Fables for Robots," are set in a cosmos inhabited exclusively by machines. Revolving around an assortment of electroknights and cyberkings, the stories combine the timeless quality of fairy tales and parables with a twist that is unmistakably Lem.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's PDF Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
ISBN: 9780141182797
Category : Classical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, she is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. He brownstone apartment vibrates with Martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home. Immortalized in a film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is full of sharp wit and in its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, madcap era of early 1940s New York. This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.

Three Japanese Short Stories

Three Japanese Short Stories PDF Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241339758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Subject Catalog

Subject Catalog PDF Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 1014

Book Description

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