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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
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
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Category: Spies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: Classics | 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
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Fa ...Show more
Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...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
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
Demian by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older ment ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that exp ...Show more
Drivers Seat by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional exper ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more