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Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...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.
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots (Mini Modern Classics) by Javier Marías
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.
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
New York City in 1979 (Mini Modern Classics) by Kathy Acker
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 27 | Reading Level: near fine
Intense sexual desire is the greatest thing in the world.' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker.
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern | Reading Level: very good
The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.
Of Dogs and Walls (Mini Modern Classics) by Yuko Tsushima
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Penguin Modern Box Set by Penguin Classics
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the glob ...Show more
Piers of the Homeless Night (Mini Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac; Willa Cather
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . 'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this co ...Show more