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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
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Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virgina Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now, the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures t ...Show more
To the Lighthouse (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia LockwoodA Penguin Vitae EditionThe serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivia ...Show more
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, an old ...Show more
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960, the author set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states. Th ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey & The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a note ...Show more
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Little Black Classic by John Gay
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
O! may thy Virtue guard thee through the RoadsOf Drury's mazy Courts, and dark Abodes,The Harlots guileful Paths, who nightly stand,Where Katherine-street descends into the Strand.