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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern
Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, GarcYa Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Ca ...Show more
The Black Ball (Mini Modern Classics) by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.
The Breakthrough (Mini Modern Classics) by Daphne du Maurier; Anon
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to di ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk o ...Show more
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing." -- from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed ...Show more
The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
The Cracked Looking-Glass (Mini Modern Classics) by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern
She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere'A tender story of devotion, resentment and ennui from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more