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Iron Gustav - A Berlin Family Chronicle by Hans Fallada
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is sh ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faith ...Show more
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Set in Poland in the dark ages, it describes the brutality, preju ...Show more
L'Abbe C by George Batailles
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"L'Abbe C" is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed 'l'Abbe'. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their suffocat ...Show more
Letters 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood. Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential literary critic, an import ...Show more
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Lonesome Traveller by Jack Kerouac
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate & Other Novels by Nancy Mitford
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners between the wars by one of the most ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Anthony Thwaite (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead ...Show more
Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, ...Show more
Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Evan S. Connell's "Mrs Bridge" is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of "Then We Came to the End" ...Show more