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20th Century Focus by Arthur Miller
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
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
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays - Sweet Bird of Youth; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Category: Classic | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
For use in schools and libraries only. Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
Beatrice and Her Son by Arthur Schnitzler; Martin Swales (Foreword by)
Category: Australian History | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Complete Short Novels by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
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.
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.
End Of The Affair,the by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. Two years later, driven by obsessive jealousy and grief, Bendrix sends Parkis, a private detective, to follow Sarah.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos (illus Ralph Barton)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Lorelei Lee is just a little girl from Little Rock who takes the world by storm and teaches its gentlemen that "kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever". Anita Loos first published the diaries of the ultimate gold-digging blonde in the flapper days ...Show more
Gigi and the Cat by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Roger Senhouse (Translator); Antonia White (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Paul O'Prey (Contribution by)
Category: Classic | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in th ...Show more