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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Pengu ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
French and Germans, Germans and French - A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupants and occup s, which provides the "I was there" under ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...Show more
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Mini Modern Classics) by Martin Luther King
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more