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Smiley's People by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end.A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is cal ...Show more
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutio ...Show more
Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel, translated into English for the first time Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay san ...Show more
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This title is presented with a new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage ...Show more
Styles Of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
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Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating acco ...Show more
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The story of a young English aristocrat, who - cut adrift by tragedy - is led by her husband's former mistress deep into the fervour, chaos and blood of the French revolution. Summer Will Show is a fearless and wildly entertaining tale of loss and daring self-discovery.
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Sunlight on a Broken Column, first published in 1961, is an unforgettable coming-of-age story set against the turbulent background of Partition. 'The deftness with which Attia Hosain handles the interplay of manners, class, culture and different forms of female power is gorgeously done . . . Laila is s ...Show more
Tao Te Ching - A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao?the basic principle of the universe ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more