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Spy Story by Len Deighton
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A classic Cold War thriller featuring computer hacking, nuclear submarines and violence on the Arctic iceComputer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong - possibly the same reluctant hero of ...Show more
Story of a Secret State - My Report to the World by Jan Karski
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on the text, "The Metaphor of the Eye'.
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Historical | 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.
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
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Category: Translated Fiction | 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 Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Ca ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more