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Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Recently released from a prisoner-of-war camp, Ferdinand drifts around the ci ...Show more
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from ...Show more
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father ...Show more
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Great Expectationsis a punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and crea ...Show more
Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Category: Philosophy / Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people' First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. It covers strategy, tactics, terrain, organization of an army, logistics, field medical treatment, intelligence, propagand ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
Hope by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'A master of fictional espionage' Daily MailWhen Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring trouble. It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich, rural Poland and the heart of a mystery that has ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity t ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
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Category: Aged | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more