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Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
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Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPERIn a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead ...Show more
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
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Contemporary | 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
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionageEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in ...Show more
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally prot g ...Show more
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Ange ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more