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Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now t ...Show more
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
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Category: Art & Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression, and of his subsequent travels in, on and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet round America.
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
Collected Poems: PMC by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. "The University Poem", one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at ...Show more
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In 'The 2003 Claret', ...Show more
Czeslaw Milosz: Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life. This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witn ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Includes stories about Dublin life.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and mart ...Show more
Enemies: A Love Story by SINGER ISAAC BASHEVIS
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife. Unsure of who he really is, what he wants and whether he can ever find peace, ...Show more