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Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Contents Include: The Enemies to Each Other -The Changelings - Sea Constables: A Tale of '15 - The Vineyard - 'Banquet Night' - 'In the Interests of Brethren - To the Companions (Horace, Ode 17, Bk. V.) - The United Idolaters - The Centaurs - 'Late came the God' - The Wish House - Rahere - The Survival ...Show more
England Made Me by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
Anthony Farrant has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a megalomaniac Swedish financier. All goes well until Krogh gives orders that offend Anthony's innate decency.
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 Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories."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
Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen's most memorable characters are in attendance- Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gaw ...Show more
Gigi and the Cat by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Roger Senhouse (Translator); Antonia White (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
'Exquisite... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giova ...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.
How to Be Born Again by Billy Graham
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Christian Classics Ser.
Man has a problem and God has an answer in Christ. How the do we respond?Dr. Graham gives the answer in simple, direct, and dynamic language. But he does not stop with the moment of the new birth, for newborns have a lot of growing to do. Here also is essential guidance to take them further, for they ca ...Show more
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