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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man?s breakaway from society and descent 'underground?.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen Eighty-Four has b ...Show more
Beauty and the Beast by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Category: Classics
Originally written in 1740, Beauty and the Beast has been reimagined into countless theatrical, print, and film adaptations over the course of two and a half centuries. Its popularity has only grown since its initial publication. The basis for the 2017 film adaptation, this classic fairytale has proven ...Show more
More Notes of A Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Classics
The sequel to his famous book, "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" reprints rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades.
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by David Hare
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Category: Classics
Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with British socie ...Show more
The Catherine Wheel (Text Classics) by Elizabeth Harrower
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch...Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London and this early day of the new year. Gently, somehow sympathetically, with a secret sort of throb, my ears ached against it, ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
'Bah! Humbug!' Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christm ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fa ...Show more
Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life and reanimate him... ...Show more
Salt on My Skin by Benoîte Groult; Mo Teitelbaum (Translator); Fay Weldon (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics
Salt on My Skin is widely regarded as Groult's most pioneering, best-loved book. This highly-charged novel follows the passionate relationship between mismatched lovers: a Parisian intellectual and a Breton fisherman, brought together by lust. Through love-letters and exotic encounters around the world ...Show more