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The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at ...Show more
The IPCRESS File (#1) by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinist ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers'She was close to the edge now: the ice laid its ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Island by Ana María Matute; Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds' Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of ...Show more
The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and the silly'This is the most powerful portrait of England - and why it must change - ever written. Composed as bombs were falling over London at the height of the blitz, it remains ...Show more
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequ ...Show more
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1940, the author sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. This book offers a log of the expedition, combining combines science, philosophy and adventure.
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled "The Defense". The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. N ...Show more
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny. This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, ...Show more