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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.
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
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
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.
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attractio ...Show more
Quicksand by Nella Larsen; Thadious M. Davis (Introduction by, Notes by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
One of the most important novels of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen�s semi-autobiographical Quicksand follows a mixed-race woman�s travels as she seeks fulfillment in a racially and sexually treacherous world. This affordable student edition reprints and lightly annotates the text of the 1928 firs ...Show more
Runyon from First to Last by Damon Runyon
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.