Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.“Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.” — The Times Literary Supplement (London)“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review

Snow Country (Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Kawabata, Yasunari

Classics

Penguin Books Ltd

Allen Carr's hundred-cigarettes-a-day addiction drove him to despair until he discovered how to shake off the dependency. His company now owns a series of clinics, and his other books include THE ONLY WAY TO STOP SMOKING. This third revised edition includes comments and additional tips from Carr, together with a directory of his clinics.

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking (Penguin Health Care & Fitness)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Allen Carr

Addiction & Recovery

Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

A collection of three short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson including the classic tale of horror, "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".

Robert Louis Stevenson

A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr’s innovative Easyway method—which he discovered after his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit nearly drove him to despair—has helped millions kick smoking without feeling anxious and deprived. That’s because he helps smokers discover the psychological reasons behind their dependency, explains in detail how to handle the withdrawal symptoms, shows them how to avoid situations when temptation might become too strong, and enables them to stay smoke-free. Carr discusses such issues as nicotine addiction; the social “brainwashing” that encourages smoking; the false belief that a cigarette relieves stress; the role boredom plays in sabotaging efforts to stop; and the main reasons for failure. With this proven program, smokers will be throwing away their packs for good.

Easy Way to Stop Smoking (Penguin Health Care & Fitness)

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Pack (Penguin Health Care & Fitness)

Mastering The Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks and beginners who love good food and long to reproduce at home the savory delights of the classic cuisine, from the historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring- green peas. This beautiful book, with more than 100 instructive illustrations, is revolutionary in its approach.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume 2

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

CHILD, JULIA

Beck, Simone

Regional & International

Dr Jekyll, a physician conscious of the duality in his nature, and fascinated by the idea of the advantage that would arise if these elements could be clothed in different personalities, discovers a drug by means of which he can create a separate personality that absorbs all his evil instincts.

Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (Penguin Student Editions)

Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come, leading readers to a new levels of consciousness and inner peace. Taking off from the introspective work "The Power of Now", which is a number one bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide, Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow.

A New Earth

Self-Help

TOLLE, ECKHART

Personal Transformation

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Penguin Celebrations)

Travel

PAUL THEROUX

Africa

It's time to rethink our attitudes to work. For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology. And yet many of us are not suited to office life, while skilled manual work provides one of the few and most rewarding paths to a secure living. Drawing on the work of our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch, as well as on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic, Matthew Crawford's irreverent and inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work forever.

The Case for Working with Your Hands or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

Crawford, Matthew

Success

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