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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
Fame (Mini Modern Classics) by Andy Warhol
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.
Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 08 | Reading Level: very good
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
Four Russian Short Stories (Mini Modern Classics) by Anon
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret- that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found.'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved f ...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
Glittering City (Mini Modern Classics) by Cyprian Ekwensi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night'Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more
I Have More Souls Than One (Mini Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
But no, she's abstract, is a bird, Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered, Because the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tirele ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the imp ...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
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
The illegible signature of teetering disaster'Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.