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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Presents the portrait of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
A RUSSIAN JOURNAL by STEINBECK JOHN
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the cou ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing t ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Collecting two book-length essays, "A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas" is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist writing, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Mich ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
Category: Popular History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Bartolome de las Casas was born in Sevilla in 1474. At the age of 18 he left Spain for the new world, where he managed his father's ranch and subsequently became a priest. After many years of witnessing the ravages and atrocities of Spanish colonial policy and experiencing the failure of his own attempt ...Show more
A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An attempt to synthesize what is known of the immensity of world history, in a form that can be grasped by the layman. Well's view of "the great adventure of mankind" is presented in the same format as when it was first published in 1922.
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics
Of the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of World War I, A Short History of the World is an engrossing account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Wells b ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics: Poetry First Editions
A series of verses set in the half-imaginary Shropshire, "A Shropshire Lad" is A.E. Housman's most famous collection of poetry. Initially self-published, with little profit, it became hugely popular during the World War I.