Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.
The Great Hunger (Mini Modern Classics) by Patrick Kavanagh
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.
The Legend of the Sleepers (Mini Modern Classics) by Danilo Kis
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls . . . 'Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.
The Black Ball (Mini Modern Classics) by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.
The Custard Heart (Mini Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Only when the littler, kinder hours had succeeded noon could she bring herself to come forth and face the recurrent sorrows of living'A collection of satirical short stories set in New York from the master of scathing wit Dorothy Parker.
Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 08 | Reading Level: very good
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
The Breakthrough (Mini Modern Classics) by Daphne du Maurier; Anon
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales (Timeless Classics) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
This lovingly crafted edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales is the perfect gift for any child or classic story lover. Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and original, iconic illustrations by Joh ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Sil ...Show more
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Deluxe Gift Edition) by Marcus Aurelius; George Long (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
This classic book contains the personal musings and reflections of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Written for himself with no intention of publishing his writing, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius documents the emperor's attempts to attain a better understanding of himself and the world around him, det ...Show more