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Advertisements for Myself PMC by Norman Mailer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of ...Show more
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez.
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dr ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curi ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
All Shot Up by Chester B. Himes
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York Times A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important ...Show more
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"All the King's Men" is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon become ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more