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The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
"From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creatin ...Show more
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by S. T. (EDT) H. P.; Joshi Lovecraft
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Claudine Novels by Antonia Colette; White
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
The Crucible is a study in the mass hysteria which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, concentrating on the fate of some of the key figures caught up in the persecution. It powerfully depicts people and principles under pressure and the issues and motivations involved. At the same time, it is also ...Show more
The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Writings by Stephen Vincent Ben et
Category: Kindergarten | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Before his premature death in 1943, Stephen Vincent Bent was one of America's most prolific poets, novelists, and short-story writers. He is also, along with Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, and Robert Penn Warren, the only author to receive two Pulitzer prizes for his poetry. Featured in this anthology of ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Lorna Katherine; Sage Mansfield
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Little Prince by De Saint-exupery A.
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin twentieth century classics
The Long Valley by John H. Timmerman
Category: Military History | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to ...Show more
The Man Within by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Graham Greene's first novel to be published represented for the author 'one sentimental gesture towards his won past, the period of ambition and hope'. It tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or s ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more