The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more
The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
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Category: Literature
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thom ...Show more
The Duke in His Domain (Mini Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern
Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.'This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break from fil ...Show more
The End by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern
They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.' From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
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Category: Literature
The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits he's not much of a rhymer - sheds Collins's ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical - 'the dogs of Minneapolis .../ have no idea they're in Minneapolis' - to the e ...Show more
The Red & the Black by Stendhal
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Category: Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe. The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces an ...Show more
The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap
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Category: Literature
Jillian Safinova can do many things.She can speak five languages. She can tell when someone is lying from the sound of their voice. And she can always find a silver lining. But there's one thing Nova can't do. She can't see. When her brother convinces her to have an operation that will restore her sight ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
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Category: Literature
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where s ...Show more
The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy
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Category: Literature
The Taste of River WaterNew and selected poems by Cate Kennedy Disarming, warm and always accessible, Cate Kennedy's poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here- compassion, insight, lyrical precision and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can ...Show more
The Temporary by Rachel Cusk
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Category: Literature
Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a t ...Show more
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
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Category: Literature
"Devastating and lyrical." --The New York Times "Suspenseful and affecting." --The New Yorker From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir--part prose, part verse--about coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds o ...Show more