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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
Aaron's Rod by Steven (INT) Mara (EDT); Vine D. H.; Kalnins Lawrence
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Based on the only authoritative surviving manuscript of the 1921 novel, this Cambridge edition restores many passages censored from previous editions in its depiction of Everyman's quest for a meaningful existence. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature ...Show more
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, a ...Show more
Beatrice and Her Son by Arthur Schnitzler; Martin Swales (Foreword by)
Category: Australian History | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth century classics
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945, this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Complete Poems by Warren Vivian De Sola; Roberts D. H.; Pinto Lawrence
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Complete Poems: Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Death And Fame:last Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Published just one year after his death, this collection of poems allows the reader an insight into the mind of Allen Ginsberg as his end neared.
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the mo ...Show more
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Category: History | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in "The New Yorker" in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.