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The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Wayward Bus travelled the backroads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land - lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl who danced at stag parties, a travelling salesman strictly out for fun, a boy coming into manhood and a college girl pursuing her ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
The Years (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf; Jeri Johnson (Introduction by, Notes by, Editor)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILLThe Yearsfollows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and re ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago modern classics
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic de ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph ...Show more