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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the mo ...Show more
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.
Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Presents the record of the author's struggle to 'fashion his inner life for himself'.
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
Category: Cook Books | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
First published in 1962, Elizabeth David's culinary odyssey through provincial France forever changed the way we think about food. With elegant simplicity, David explores the authentic flavors and textures of time-honored cuisines from such provinces as Alsace, Provence, Brittany, and the Savoie. Full o ...Show more
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
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life.