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A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history? Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong ...Show more
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray", Joris-Karl Huysmans' "Against Nature" (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in "Penguin Classics". A wildly original fin-de-siecle novel, "Against Nature" contain ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Penguin Bedtime Classics) by Lewis Carroll; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator); Tony Ross (Illustrator)
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fill ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dr ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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
Americana by Don Delillo
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more