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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Category: Biography | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. Newly divorced journalist Elizabet ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMANMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the succe ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser.
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sk ...Show more
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
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Category: Young Adult | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
Extraordinarily powerful, uplifting and memorable, the story of "Freak the Mighty" explores an unlikely friendship, and finds optimism and humour in a story of great poignancy. Bring your tissues. Maxwell Kane is feared and bullied because of his mental slowness and enormous size. But this is not the on ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father ...Show more
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A meticulously detailed and moving novel explores the lives of American fighter pilots in World War TwoGoodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England, the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4.At the centre of the novel are ...Show more