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Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Games | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York Times A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flyin ...Show more
Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...Show more
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more
Dark Days (Mini Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Sexuality and Gender | Series: Penguin Modern
So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; David Bradshaw (Editor, Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy / Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose o ...Show more
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
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Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy / Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.