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Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous land ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
Americana by Don Delillo
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more
Americanah (Collins Modern Classics) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A delicious, important novel' The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping' Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifem ...Show more
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPERIn a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out. This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosm ...Show more
An Autobiography: Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in two volumes in 1927 and 1929, with a second edition in 1940, this is Gandhi's account of his early spiritual progress towards truth and the circumstances of his life that led him to a practical application of the principles of conduct for which he was revered.
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thrillerAn unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackma ...Show more
Anatomy Of A Suicide by Birch Alice
Category: Reference | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
"I have Stayed. I have Stayed - I have Stayed for as long as I possibly can."Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. Alice Birch's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play is a powerful exploration of inter-generational trauma, told across ...Show more
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortu ...Show more
Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance, her beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - have made Mary old before her time. Then ...Show more