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The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father
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Category: Classics | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
The simple but profound story of a life of detachment through wandering and prayer, and one of the most widely circulated prayer guides in the world. In 1884, a slim volume containing four short tales appeared in Russia telling of a pilgrim, a lone wanderer, led by his quiet curiosity and deep spiri ...Show more
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | 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 Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to w ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She bared her poor curst arm'. A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers ...Show more
The World is Full of Foolish Men : Little Black Classic by Jean De La Fontaine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics ...Show more
The Years (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf; Jeri Johnson (Introduction by, Notes by, Editor)
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Category: Classics | 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
The Yellow Book : Little Black Classic by Anon
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
' "She's an adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one. She doesn't travel for profit, but for pleasure." ' Offering an entertaining introduction to the fin-de-siecle, this selection from the notorious magazine The Yellow Book includes stories and poems by famous writers such as Arn ...Show more
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and ...Show more
Therese Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amelie actress Audrey Tautou ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Fiction | 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: Critical Thinking | 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