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Why Read The Classics? by Italo Calvino
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. "Wind, Sand and Stars" is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly ...Show more
Winter by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph 'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday Telegraph Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothe ...Show more
Within The Walls by Giorgio Bassani
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities, a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead, a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest, and the only witness to the first local atrocity of the Second ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
Written Lives by Javier Marias
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo o ...Show more
Xpd by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain's most clos ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collideSinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy...
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marias
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it' Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself ...Show more