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A Passage to India by E M Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first timeWhen Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real In ...Show more
Beatrice and Her Son by Arthur Schnitzler; Martin Swales (Foreword by)
Category: Australian History | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Martin Eden by Jack London
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Selected Stories by Lardner Ring
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner's best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as "Alibi Ike," "Some Like Them Cold," and "Guillible's Travels." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publishe ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
"From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creatin ...Show more
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Man Within by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Graham Greene's first novel to be published represented for the author 'one sentimental gesture towards his won past, the period of ambition and hope'. It tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or s ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Lenin V I
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolutio ...Show more
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