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Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
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Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960, the author set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states. Th ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Penguin Modern Classics" edition of John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragic vision of America at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses 'came ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-ma ...Show more
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano" includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in "Penguin Modern Classics". It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
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Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
VICTORIA by HAMSUN KNUT
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
When it first appeared in 1898, this fourth novel by celebrated Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun captured instant acclaim for its poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of loveas predicament in a class-bound society. Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth- century Norway, Victoria follows two doomed ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel t ...Show more