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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of science's power to corrupt With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horse ...Show more
The Iron Heel by London Jack
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the ...Show more
The Island by Ana María Matute; Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
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Category: No Category | 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 Job : Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, "The Job" lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with storie ...Show more
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Yes, I am dead. I killed myself off at the end of my book, because it was high time' The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It begins as an ambitious teenager's notes on the natural world, and then, fol ...Show more
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ...Show more
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The King's English" is Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four- ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there ...Show more
The Lady in the Lake: And Other Novels by Raymond Chandler
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Contains the author's three Philip Marlowe novels, "The Lady in the Lake", "The High Window" and "The Little Sister".
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the height of his power as a writer In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces, and some of the most highly-regarded works in Russian literature. The poignant 'The Lady with the L ...Show more
The Last Chronicle of Barset (#6 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal threatens to tear them, and the c ...Show more