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Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This is the last satirical novel from Thomas Bernhard, one of Australia's greatest writers. It takes the form of a dramatic monologue spoken by a man at the end of his tether, in whom the burden of the past has become intolerable - leading to literal extinction.
Federico Garcia Lorca: Selected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This bilingual edition of Lorca's poetry provides versions by poets and translators, drawing on every book of poems published by Lorca, and on his uncollected works.
Flying Home - And Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." ...Show more
Guilty Men by John Stevenson (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A polemic against Chamberlain, MacDonald, and Baldwin whom the author Cato, a pseudonym for Michael Foot, Frank Owen, and Peter Howard, regarded as having brought the country to the brink of disaster through their policy of appeasement. First published in 1940
Henry And June from the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin by Nin Anais
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts.
Hurry on Down by John Wain
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of dark ...Show more
In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
At the age of 20, Katherine Mansfield left England for the Bavarian spa town of Bad Worishofen. Alone and detached, she coolly observed the absurd posturings and affectations of the German bourgeoisie at leisure. There she began to write the stories that appeared in this, her first collection.
Martin Eden by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
Selected Stories by Lardner Ring
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner's best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as "Alibi Ike," "Some Like Them Cold," and "Guillible's Travels." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publishe ...Show more
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This generous selection of Georges Perec's non-fiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking exami ...Show more