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The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust--all the elements of Kawabata's fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N-ō drama." --"Saturday R ...Show more
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiter ...Show more
The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of short stories centers around one character, space traveller Ijon Tichy. In these stories, Stanislaw Lem's "Candide of the Cosmos" encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Lenin V I
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolutio ...Show more
The Storm by Defoe Daniel
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The Storm By Daniel Defoe, 1704 The Storm relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. It is known as the Great Storm of 1703, and it was described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the wide ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, cri ...Show more
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The colossus of crime leaned over to the little rustic priest with a sort of sudden interest. 'You have heard of it?' he asked. 'Where have you heard of it?' 'Well, I mustn't tell you his name, of course,' said the little man simply. 'He was a penitent, you know. He had lived prosperously for about twen ...Show more
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
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Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Fran ...Show more
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, ...Show more
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
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A terrible storm strands a Swiss pastor, with his wife and four sons, on a tropical island. Luckily, the Robinsons are optimistic and inventive, and with what they salvage from the wrecked ship, and the island's abundant fruits, plants and animals, they soon adapt - each day discovering new dangers, ski ...Show more
The Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, h ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more