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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me" is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Underground Man by Ross MacDonald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. While forest fires rage in the hills around Los Angeles, threatening the homes of some of the city's wealthi ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel t ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the ...Show more
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, "Visions of Cody" is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this boo ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor". ("Wall Street Journal"). "Watermark" is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from it ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In the dark narratives that make up "When I Was Mortal" by Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pai ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more