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Dark Days (Mini Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.
Death the Barber (Mini Modern Classics) by William Carlos Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves'Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse, and made him one of the greatest twentieth-century poets.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrele ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
Fame (Mini Modern Classics) by Andy Warhol
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.
Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern 08 | Reading Level: very good
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
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday). At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army poli ...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.
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectua ...Show more