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Small G - a Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected. 'What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . with which Highsmith writes about gay men . . . one can ...Show more
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne TylerTogether yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes noth ...Show more
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"Anna Maxwell Martin (Bleak House) and David Morrissey lead an outstanding cast in this rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries remarkable echoes of our own times. South Riding is a terrific love story, but it's also a raw and real portrait of a whole community ...Show more
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In "Sweet Bird of Youth", a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the gir ...Show more
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to di ...Show more
The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more