Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Penguin Classics
In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drench ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the t ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse: Penguin Essentials by Françoise Sagan
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary ... This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love'. The French Riviera: home to t ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose ...Show more