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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: General (A-Z) | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Stella McNichol w ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
Pale Horse, Pale Rider The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: General (A-Z) | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiance on his way to war, and "Noon Wine", a haunting story of tragedy and sc ...Show more
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutio ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: English - Plays and movies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more