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Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a me ...Show more
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
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Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are p ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really pl ...Show more
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, te ...Show more
Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most import ...Show more
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's wife, though she is perfectly healthy. He sets out on an epic journey to find her, around the labyrinthine corners of a strange and enormous hospital. Days into his search, having encountered countless strange ...Show more
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This journalist's portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is "a book of great economy and power with] a supreme sense of the absurd" (New Republic). Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense o ...Show more
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil; Sian Miles (Foreword by, Editor)
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Category: Children's Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work The Need for Roots,exploring the ways in which modern society ...Show more
Styles Of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating acco ...Show more
The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol
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Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The opposing Bolivian Army was backed by the CIA, and Che and his men fought bravely in the jungle of Boli ...Show more