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A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
Americana by Don Delillo
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out. This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosm ...Show more
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thrillerAn unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackma ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Fiction | 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
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. "About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for". ("The New York Times Book Review"). Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playin ...Show more