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Segu by Maryse Conde
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"A wondrous novel" (New York Times) from the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature (the New Academy Prize) The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their g ...Show more
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fading charmer, Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Lef ...Show more
Single & Single by John le Carre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier h ...Show more
Smiley's People by John le Carré
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Category: Crime 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
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: No Category | 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
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever ...Show more
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the li ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed b ...Show more
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre ...Show more