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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous "Angel of ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has n ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money'. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himse ...Show more
Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful rediscovery. . . human, suspenseful, shot through with hard-earned wisdom' - Lee Child One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third Reich April 1945, the last days of the Nazi ...Show more
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionageEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in ...Show more
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection of essays including "On The Introduction of Narcissism", "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through", "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", "The Ego and the ID" and "Inhibition, Symptom and Fear".
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more