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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker; Mikki Bresse (Editor); Regina Barreca (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Death And Fame:last Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Published just one year after his death, this collection of poems allows the reader an insight into the mind of Allen Ginsberg as his end neared.
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the mo ...Show more
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.
England, My England and Other Stories by Michael Bruce (EDT); Bell D. H.; Steele Lawrence
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
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