After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who value her only as a means of provoking one another.

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevita...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks a...

De bijna veertigjarige Eva lijkt alles te hebben: een mooi gezin, een succesvol bedrijf, en binnenkort het huis van haar dromen. Dan sterft haar moeder en beginnen de nachtmerries. Eva wordt steeds angstiger en raakt ervan overtuigd dat er gevaar dreigt voor haar en haar kinderen - langzaam maar zeker verliest ze haar grip op de werkelijkheid.

Ze gaat op zoek naar de oorsprong van haar angsten in haar vroege jeugd en ontdekt hiaten in haar geheugen. Als ze besluit contact op te nemen met haar ...