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Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot ag ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their sm ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money'. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himse ...Show more
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionageEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Black Panther - Penguin Classics Marvel Collection by Don Mcgregor, Rich Buckler
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Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 (1966); Jungle Act ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
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Category: Culture Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening ...Show more
Bomber by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating nove ...Show more
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexiévich; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated and expanded text -From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.