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The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix Tie-In) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror ...Show more
The IPCRESS File (#1) by Len Deighton
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinist ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Legend of the Sleepers (Mini Modern Classics) by Danilo Kis
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls . . . 'Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.
The Man in the High Castle (PB) by Philip K. Dick
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An official tie-in edition of Philip K Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare ...Show more
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 23 | Reading Level: near fine
Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. I am Black and lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, these soarin ...Show more
The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing . . . 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. "Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English". (Guardian). "A marvellously observed relentless tale". (Observer). At the start o ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Problem that Has No Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Betty Friedan
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women'The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing American housewives, and explains the malignant role advertising plays in perpetuating the myth of the 'happy housewife heroine'.
The Red Tenda of Bologna (Mini Modern Classics) by John Berger
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.