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Lonesome Traveller by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Paperbacks | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling ...Show more
Mahabharata by NARAYAN R.K.
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Includes characters who are obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes.
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his acc ...Show more
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
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Category: No Dept - sale | 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
Near To The Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heartwas published when she was twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. She became renowned as Brazil's greatest twentieth-century writer. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: 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
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England ...Show more