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Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
Mexico Set by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolmentWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead he is t ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest wo ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Woolf Virginia
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. It's one ...Show more
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of his masterpieces ...without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes ...Show more
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women, his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. This work is a translation that offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by Rilke, Ib ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more
Njal's Saga by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more