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The Night Manager by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
A classic spy novel from master of suspense John le Carre--reissued in time with the BBC and AMC miniseries, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with hi ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Co ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions o ...Show more
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how ...Show more
The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange di ...Show more
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...Show more
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, ...Show more
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
With "shattering prose," the New York Times-bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle). In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungl ...Show more