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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 Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
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 Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by WEBER MAX BAEHR P R WELLS GORDON C
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--one of the most enduring and influential books in sociology--is available. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar. In this ThirdEdition, Kalber ...Show more
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
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
During World War II a group of men is held prisoner by the Germans, who determine that three of them must die. This is the story of how one of those men trades his wealth for his life--and lives to pay for his act in utterly unexpected ways.
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
"The Third Man" is a recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. "The Fallen Idol" is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play.
Wonderful World Of Oz by BAUM L Frank
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Most people are familiar with the land of Oz by way of the classic 1939 film. But the film was based on only the first of fourteen books about Oz in which Baum developed his vision of a socialist paradise and which garnered an immense and loyal following. Three of the novels are collected here. The Wiza ...Show more