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The Last Days of Socrates - Plato: Translated by Tredennick & Tarrant. Introd. & Notes by Tarrant - Penguin Classics by Plató; Hugh Tredennick (Translator); Harold Tarrant (Editor)
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The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his ro ...Show more
The Last Demon by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left. Why demons, when man himself is a demon? Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced? I am the last of the persuaders'. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stori ...Show more
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
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Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn't know better than to sweep his broom all the way to the town limits if no one stopped him. And teenage friends Sonny ...Show more
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
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One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Mariann ...Show more
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
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The story of Peter Abelard and Heloise d'Argenteuil remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. This title follows the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit, Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is edited with an introduction by Melvin New and Joan New, and includes a critical essay by Christopher Ricks in "Penguin Classics". Laurenc ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
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Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different charact ...Show more
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bront was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte Bront 's life from her isolated childhood, through ...Show more
The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell
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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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'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 Little Drummer Girl: Now a BBC series by John le Carré
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A special edition of John le Carré's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the forthcoming BBC series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon and Florence Pugh Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the m ...Show more
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal; James Naughton (Translator)
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From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming hi ...Show more