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Animal Farm: The Illustrated Edition by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing the classic illustrated Animal Farm by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they ...Show more
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money'. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himse ...Show more
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs 'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette Winterson. This is the story of Janey, who lived in a l ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Pengu ...Show more
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more