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Jacob's Room by Sue Virginia; Roe Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Jazz Age Stories by Patrick F. Scott; O'Donnell Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics
Lady Chatterley's Lover by Michael (EDT) D. H.; Squires Lawrence
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth-Century Classics
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
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics) by CRISP Quentin
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
"As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake, " Quentin Crisp declares, giving a small hint of the witty and wry approach he takes toward the life he describes with uninhibited exuberance in this classic autobiography, which is both a comic masterpiece and a uniqu ...Show more
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
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
In the 1950s, underground America was a world of jazz, sex, chill dawns and drugs, for Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
A classic novel which follows Stephen Dedalus as he progresses from boyhood to his coming of age in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, describing his sexual awakening, his intellectual development and his rebellion against Roman Catholicism. From the author of Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegan' ...Show more