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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern Classics. Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse ...Show more
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An official tie-in edition of Philip K Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Mission Song by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and Congolese warlords, an interpreter finds his conscience re-awakening.Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is no stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent ...Show more
The Mortgaged Heart by MCCULLERS CARSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mortgaged Heart" is an important collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection al ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forev ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. "Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English". (Guardian). "A marvellously observed relentless tale". (Observer). At the start o ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A classic spy novel from master of suspense John le Carre--reissued in time with the BBC and AMC miniseries, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with hi ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistibl ...Show more