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Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
Death Of Grass, The
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits B ...Show more
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; David Bradshaw (Editor, Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Demian by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older ment ...Show more
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, but she has no idea of the struggles that lie ahead - love affairs, an unwanted pregnancy, physical pain and crippling opioid addiction. As the years go by, the central t ...Show more
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
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Category: Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that exp ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose o ...Show more
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more