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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien ...Show more
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Truman Capote's newly discovered first novel. Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But her privileged society life o ...Show more
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, GarcYa Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
The Black Ball (Mini Modern Classics) by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.
The Breakthrough (Mini Modern Classics) by Daphne du Maurier; Anon
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
The Castle by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he fi ...Show more
The Cracked Looking-Glass (Mini Modern Classics) by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere'A tender story of devotion, resentment and ennui from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Custard Heart (Mini Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Only when the littler, kinder hours had succeeded noon could she bring herself to come forth and face the recurrent sorrows of living'A collection of satirical short stories set in New York from the master of scathing wit Dorothy Parker.
The Dialogue of Two Snails by Federico Garcia Lorca
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver.' Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely- this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Elie Wiesel; Otto Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the de ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more