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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A classic coming-of-age tale of a spirited heroine named Anne Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who is mistakenly sent to a pair of siblings who had wanted to adopt a boy to help with the work on their farm in Prince Edward Island. Anne's quirky personality and good-natured spirit cause the sib ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jaz ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ryszard Kapuscinski is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, demonstrating an almost mystical ability to discover the odd or overlooked and incorporating these sometimes surreal details into narratives that go beyond mere reportage and enter the realm of literature. A ...Show more
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since the Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet, since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by the Council of Vocations to work as a ...Show more
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'(The writer) in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela. After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid, frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to be protecting ...Show more
Anton Reiser - A Psychological Novel by Karl Philipp Moritz; Ritchie Robertson (Translator, Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Well-received in its own day, but all but forgotten in the nineteenth century, Anton Reiser (1785) has now finally regained the popular attention it so richly merits. Called a 'biography' by its author, it is in fact autobiographical, though it is also a searching psychological and religious discourse. ...Show more
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism rocked the Church of England to its foundation and escalated the spread of virulent anti-catholicism in Victorian England. A rigorous examination of his own religious development, enlivened by touches of satire and sometimes invective, Apologia Pro Vit ...Show more
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara; Allan Massie (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarralives frighteningly in the mind' John UpdikeJulian English prides himself a member of his hometown?s social elite, but from the moment he throws a ...Show more
Army Life in a Black Regiment - And Other Writings by Thomas W. Higginson; R. D. Madison (Introduction by, Notes by); Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied materi ...Show more