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Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose o ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrele ...Show more
Drivers Seat by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional exper ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Includes stories about Dublin life.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | 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
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | 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
England Your England by George Orwell
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Exile & The Kingdom by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday). At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army poli ...Show more
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | 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