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Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships--with his father, his first "girl," his wife, and the children who barely know him--and he writes about Eamon's...

Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose, "The Master is unquestionably the work of a...

Im geheimnisvollen Haus der Namen findet Orestes Zuflucht vor dem neuen Mann seiner Mutter. Diese hat nach der Opferung ihrer Tochter ihren Ehemann ermordet. Deswegen wird sie nun von ihrem Sohn Orestes und seiner Schwester Elektra angefeindet. Es beginnt ein blutiges Rachespiel zwischen Mutter, Tochter und zurückgekehrtem Sohn. Immer tiefer gerät Orestes zwischen die Fronten. Und dann ist da noch seine Liebe zu Leandros, die ihn vor eine Zerreißprobe stellt. »Grausam und quälend glaubhaft« (The Guardian) zeichnet Tóibín das Porträt einer zerrissenen Familie und einer...

"I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after...

A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in one night. A famous singer captivates an audience, yet cannot beguile her own...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.

The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning...