The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 2 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
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'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
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Category: Penguin Classics
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans 400 years, taking the ...Show more
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann
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A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a pl ...Show more
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas
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Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. ‘It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and b ...Show more
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
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Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America seething wit ...Show more
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
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With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
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For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima
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New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a se ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
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New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched ...Show more
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
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New in Penguin Japanese Classics- an innovative feminist novel about motherhood and girlhood Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched aff ...Show more
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
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New in Penguin Japanese Classics- ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in ...Show more
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
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New in Penguin Japanese Classics - a surreal work of apocalyptic science fiction. A recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may prove even greater obstacles than nuclear disaster. A science-fiction classic from acc ...Show more