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The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new "Penguin Freud", under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case Histories": "Little Hans", "The Rat Man", "The Wolf Man ...Show more
To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph ...Show more
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
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Category: No Category | 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
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...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
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
X-Men Penguin Classics by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Werner Roth
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. Collects X-Men #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, and 46. It is impossible to ...Show more