Great Expectations (Penguin English Library)

Charles Dickens

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...

The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories

Tove Ditlevsen

A shimmering collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated into English for the first timeA newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surfac...