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Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o ...Show more
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blo ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition by James Joyce
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, "Ulysses" has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its stan ...Show more
Wait Till I'm Dead - Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
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Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Winter by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph 'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday Telegraph Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothe ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Gender and Society | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collideSinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy...