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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by Jean-Claude Van Itallie
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Black Classics
'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next'The Tibetan Book of the Deadis overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state i ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Trial (original German title: Der Process,later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of ...Show more
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Clothbound Classic) by H.G. Wells
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Default | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop'. Gentle art teacher Walter Hartright has fallen in love with his student, Laura. But she is marrying the wicked Sir Percival, who wants to destroy her reputation and steal her fortune. In the face of his powerful friends, only Laura's ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
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Category: Politics and Society | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more