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Inferno by Dante Alighieri
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Category: No Category | 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 and tactile cloth. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inf ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...Show more
Jane Austen: The Complete Works by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Love and Freindship.Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circl ...Show more
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the Denham family. But while she will do anything to join their circle, she gives no thought to the chaos that she may cause. ...Show more
Joke And Its Relation To The Unconscious, The by Sigmund Freud
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced. Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our d ...Show more
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Manis a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity.'Words are your business, boy. Not just theWord. Words are everything''Tell me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black ...Show more
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Set in Poland in the dark ages, it describes the brutality, preju ...Show more
L'Abbe C by George Batailles
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"L'Abbe C" is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed 'l'Abbe'. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their suffocat ...Show more
LESS THAN ONE - SELECTED ESSAYS by BRODSKY JOSEPH
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Constance Chatterley is not content. Trapped in a humdrum marriage to an impotent man, she becomes drawn to the earthy gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. They embark on a sexually-charged affair that allows them a sense of enlightenment and physical fulfilment. In Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence masterfu ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Leaves of Grass: (1855) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and tit ...Show more