Eighty stories that display O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities. These stories about con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the So[...]
"A classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers". (from "Why Read the Classics?" by Italo Calvino). "Penguin Modern Classics" have been shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961. This 50th anniversary catalogue offers a complete list of all the titles in pr[...]
Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco s post-war Spain, Andre Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return home. Roger Kraus, a Nazi on the run, shadows the young artist day and night. They meet on a bridge during the last night of the fiesta, and as the sky i[...]