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The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
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Category: Politics and Society | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
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
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