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In Search of Lost Time: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salut ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the story of an invisible man "simply because people refuse to see me". Yet his powerfully depicted adventures go far beyond the story of one man.
Iron In The Soul (The Roads to Freedom Vol 3) by SARTRE Jean-Paul
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought and tragic men like Math ...Show more
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times London]) A Penguin Classic "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have." --The New York Times Book Review In It A ...Show more
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how ...Show more
John Steinbeck - A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck; Robert Wallsten (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent, and this collection of around 850 letters to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures gives an insight into the raw creative processes of one of the most naturally-gifted and hard-working ...Show more
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Manis a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity.'Words are your business, boy. Not just theWord. Words are everything''Tell me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black ...Show more
Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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K. by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more