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A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the most electrifying, most admired novels of our time. Set in the bleak confines of a state mental hospital and narrated by a half-Indian patient named Chief Bromden, it's the story of a titanic battle of wills between two unforgettable characters.

Brought to you by Penguin. The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents...

The Complete Katherine Mansfield Collection contains the five volumes of short stories written by Mansfield between 1911 and 1924 which established her as one of the best short story writers of her generation, as-well as the only novel she ever penned: The Aloe. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born English writer, famous for her expertly observed short stories. She had a great influence on the development of the short story as a form of literature.

Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible...

The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry.

"Дворянское гнездо" - роман, написанный Иваном Сергеевичем Тургеневым в 1856 - 1858 годах, впервые опубликованный в 1859 в журнале "Современник". Главным героем романа Фёдор Иванович Лаврецкий, дворянин, возвращается из-за границы в Россию, в свое «родовое гнездо», где его всегда ждут и по-прежнему любят....

В объяснении к первому изданию романа Мамин-Сибиряк рассказывал, что означает "Горное гнездо". Так на Урале именовали сообщество государственных горных инженеров. Автор же под этим названием объединял и вовсе всех тех, кто верховодил всеми делами на Урале. Остросатирическое произведение о несостоятельности "магнатов" уральских горных заводов как организаторов промышленности. Автор изобразил жизнь Урала в пореформенные годы, капитализацию России и связанную с этим процессом ломку общественного сознания, норм права и морали.