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The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark; William Boyd (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to 'bring vision into the lives of the workers'. A devilishly charismatic force of nature who likes nothing better than to stir things up, he takes great delight in w ...Show more
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood (Translator); Idris Parry (Foreword by)
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The protagonist, known only as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle above it shrouded in mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle, the officials who run the bureacracy that governs the village, K. ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
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The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended between two identities - and you have a man who, perhaps for the first time in his life, is really free. However, freedom can be a noose around a man's neck.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
The only complete collection of writings by Anne Frank, this impressive volume contains three of the extant versions of her Diary (including pages that came to light in 1998), Tales from the Secret Annex (he lesser known short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences), and Cady's Life (her unfinished ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Sea-Wind (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Edge of the Sea is the third and final book in the sea trilogy written by the American marine biologist.
The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson; Charles E. Modlin (Contribution by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Published two years after the 1919 masterpiece "Winesburg, Ohio," this collection of short stories explores intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and bursts of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
The Promised Land by Mary Antin
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Interweaving autobiography with history, introspection and political commentary, Mary Antin recounts the process of "uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development that took place in my own soul", and reveals the impact of a new culture on her family.
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Lenin V I
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolutio ...Show more