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If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a que ...Show more
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. ...Show more
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
London Match by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Bernard Samson becomes a pawn in a game played by the Kremlin in the final instalment of the Game, Set and Match trilogyLong-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that t ...Show more
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his acc ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
Mexico Set by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolmentWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead he is t ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, ...Show more