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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
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Erotica | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has n ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money'. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himse ...Show more
Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful rediscovery. . . human, suspenseful, shot through with hard-earned wisdom' - Lee Child One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third Reich April 1945, the last days of the Nazi ...Show more
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionageEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in ...Show more
Billion-Dollar Brain (#4 IPCRESS) by Len Deighton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final spy novel featuring the unnamed hero of The IPCRESS File series finds him up against a Texan billionaire with an all-powerful computerTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more