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The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of Mattis, a mentally handicapped man who lives with and is cared for by his older sister, Hege. Within their isolated, lakeside existence, Mattis cannot make sense of his tangled thoughts, frightening apparitions, surges of emotion and clever insights. When a travelling lumberjack att ...Show more
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy ...Show more
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to di ...Show more
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane Clarice."Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They l ...Show more
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley (Virago Modern Classic) by Grace Paley; George Saunders (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'This is a collection full of energy and stunning, quiet innovation ... it spills over with contempt, raucous humour, sadness and generosity. In it, life and language are synonymous, and there is no higher praise. What a wonderful book' Ali Smith Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume. ...Show more
The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
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Category: No Category | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic -- these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more