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After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she rea ...Show more
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Akenfield : Portrait of an English village by Ronald Blythe
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Akenfield Ronald Blythe - Author ?9.99 Buy now View basket This book is currently out of stock Please email me when this book is available to buy Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 288 pages | ISBN 0141187921 | 28 Jul 2005 | Penguin Classic This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life rever ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy drea ...Show more
All Men Are Mortal by Simone De Beauvoir
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
All over the world, people are claiming their rights. Are these claims prompted by similar values and aspirations? And even if human rights are universal, what are the consequences of claiming them in different historical, cultural and material realities? The diversity of African countries considered in ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
All Shot Up by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York Times A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important ...Show more
All Souls by Javier Marias
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"All Souls" is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of "The Sea". The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many e ...Show more
All The Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics) by Anthony Doerr
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more