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Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 08
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
Four Russian Short Stories (Mini Modern Classics) by Anon
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret- that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found.'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved f ...Show more
Fremder by Russell Hoban
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052- in the blackness of space a figure in blue overalls tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanke ...Show more
French and Germans, Germans and French - A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupants and occup s, which provides the "I was there" under ...Show more
Frolic of the Beasts The by Mishima Yukio
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beaststells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brought fa ...Show more
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an even de ...Show more
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | 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
Glittering City (Mini Modern Classics) by Cyprian Ekwensi
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night'Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.
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
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnightincludes an introduction by A.L. Kennedy in Penguin Modern Classics. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is tea ...Show more
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | 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