At Penguin Classics our mission has always been to make the best books ever written available to everyone. And that also means constantly redefining and refreshing exactly what makes a ‘classic’.
That’s where Modern Classics come in. Since 1961 they have been an organic, ever-growing and ever-evolving list of books that we believe will continue to be read over and over again.
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Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother.
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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford Ford's masterly story of destruction and regeneration follows the progress of Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the Great War. |
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The Pursued by C. S. Forester C. S. Forester's 1935 thriller The Pursued, lost for decades, rewrote the traditions of crime fiction to create a dark, twisted portrayal of obsession and retribution.
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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby In this hilarious, moving and now-classic book, he vividly depicts his childhood life, his time as a teacher, and his first loves (after football), all through the prism of the game, as he insightfully and brilliantly explores obsession, and the way it can shape a life. |
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A Heart so White by Javier Marias 'Marías' challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in A Heart So White.' The New York Times
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The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists. |
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias Víctor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away.
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The Penitent by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. |
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King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer A fictional exploration of primitive history, Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery.
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Love and Exile From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. |
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The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox by Evelyn Waugh Ronald Knox - priest, classicist and brilliant, prolific writer - was one of the outstanding men of letters of his time.
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Miami Blues by Charles Willeford Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. |
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The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford Sergeant Hoke Mosely is struggling: his division chief is making ominous plans for him, a man he sent to jail for murder has moved in across the street, and he's stuck on one of his toughest cold cases yet.
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Sideswipe by Charles Willeford 'Better than Hall and Hiaasen and as good as Elmore Leonard at his best.' Time Out |
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New Hope for the Dead by Charles Willeford In an expensive Miami neighbourhood, Sergeant Hoke Moseley, Homicide Division, is called to investigate the lethal overdose of a young junkie.
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Essential Boxed Gift Sets
Penguin Modern Classics introduces Hubert Selby Jr.
'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists' - The New York Times
'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years' - Allen Ginsberg
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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. With a new Introduction by Irvine Welsh |
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Harry White's rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him. But with every achievement the |
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'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room,' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s second novel. This sequel to Last Exit to Brooklyn, is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other. |
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Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis A mummy is stolen from a small-town museum and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen-year-old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head, as a suspected student prank becomes a murder.
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I Want It Now by Kingsley Amis With his unerring eye for absurdity and class satire Kingsley Amis shows us what happens when money meets naked ambition. |
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The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose.
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The Folks That Live On The Hill by Kingsley Amis Harry Caldecote endures misplaced seductions, swindles and aggressive dogs just to keep the peace at the King's pub in Shepherd's Hill. |
Penguin Modern Classics remain the very best, most provocative, exciting, groundbreaking, inspiring, revolutionary works of the last 100 years – an organic, ever-growing and ever-evolving list of books that we believe will continue to be read by generation after generation. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the series we've released fifty mini Modern Classics full of the best short fiction by the greatest writers of the last 100 years (or so). Each book is a quick literary hit and satisfying shot of storytelling. They don't take long to read, but they will resonate with you long after you turn the final page. See them all here. |
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New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.
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L'Abbé C by Georges Bataille A shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. |
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My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self.
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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille A collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. |
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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self.
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The Magician of Lublin A collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. |
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Enemies: A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer ' Isaac Bashevis Singer is a rare pleasure . . . a literary genius.' San Francisco Chronicle
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The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer In The Slave, published in 1962, Isaac Bashevis Singer creates a dreamlike portrayal of isolation, rejection, love and the meaning of sacrifice. |
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Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing .
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Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roche 'A perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life' - |
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The Devil in the Flesh byRaymond Radiguet Written in spare, haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller and its author was hailed as a genius, before dying tragically at the age of twenty.
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The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty An acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small-town life in Morgana, Mississippi. |
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Ending Up by Kingsley Amis 'A genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse' - John Mortimer
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Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. |
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré In le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining.
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The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers. |
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The Russia House by John le Carré
In his first post-glasnost spy novel, le Carré captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them .
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A Murder of Quality by John le Carré In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective. |
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The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery by H.R.F. Keating
The Perfect Murder introduced Inspector Ghote: Bombay CID's most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction
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Under a Monsoon Cloud: An Inspector Ghote Mystery by H.R.F. Keating A man is dead and Inspector Ghote knows exactly who killed him. Now if he can just keep it a secret... |
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Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg: An Inspector Ghote Mystery by H.R.F. Keating
In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician's wife died under suspicious circumstances.
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Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart by H.R.F. Keating Some crooks have tried to snatch the plump son of a business tycoon, and have accidentally made off with his playmate instead. |
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The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato 'An existentialist classic . . . Retains a chilling, memorable power' |
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Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious |
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Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance as a short story writer.
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Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying by Roald Dahl These tales that draw on his Roald Dahl's war experiences.
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The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible.
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Aloft by William Langewiesche Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world.
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Paul Bowles: Collected Stories by Paul Bowles
Hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment, vengeance, and extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions.
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The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina.
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Up Above the World by Paul Bowles
Up Above the World shows Paul Bowles to be a master of the tension and horror of rising viciousness.
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Let it Come Down by Paul Bowles
This dark terrifying novel is arguably Bowles' greatest achievement.
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The Graduate by Charles Webb
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Man's Fate by Andre Malraux Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are altered inexorably. .
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Heroes in the Wind: From Kull to Conan This is writing as sheer, relentless excitement, from the grandmaster of pulp fiction.
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Interzone by William S. Burroughs Interzone shows the evolution of William Burroughs from the terse, fiercely confessional writer of Junky to the wild, brutal fantasist of Naked Lunch.
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Letters 1945-59 by William S. Burroughs These letters track Burroughs' turbulent journey across three continents and two decades.
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My Education by William S. Burroughs My Education is intense, vivid, wry and laconic – and a revealing journey into the mind of a great writer.
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The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs There is an unexpected side to William Burroughs – the author of weird and disturbing fictions had a great fondness for cats.
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The Hustler by Walter Tevis The inspiration for the legendary Paul Newman film, Walter Tevis's novel is a hardboiled tale of a beautiful talent for life in smoky poolrooms.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
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Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century.
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time.
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Death Kit by Susan Sontag Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, thirty-three, divorced and mild-mannered, works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer and feels his life is running down.
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Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980.
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In America by Susan Sontag It is 1876 and Poland's greatest actress, Maryna Zalezowska, is setting off for the new world. At thirty-five she has decided to start a new life.
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The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag The British Ambassador at the court of Naples has only two passions – his precious art collection, and his fascination with volcanoes – until he agrees to care for his nephew's discarded mistress.
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Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag – pioneering essayist, cultural critic and radical thinker – brought together over forty pieces from across the arc of her writing career in this landmark collection of non-fiction works.
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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 'An unrivalled picture of the rumors, suspicions and treachery of civil war' - Antony Beevor |
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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute is a moving tour of the underworld society.
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Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino An elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century.
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Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
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Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice.
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino Published in 1947, Italo Calvino's first novel remains startling, and the 1964 preface is his most brilliant piece of literary self-examination.
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Fantastic Tales ed by Italo Calvino This collection is a brilliant précis of the work of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed.
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino From tales of fabulous enchantments and supernatural horror to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino.
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The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino These five autobiographical essays are fascinating expeditions through the memories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson Tarka the Otter depicts a fierce struggle for survival in the wild that also carries echoes of the author's experiences of the First World War. |
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Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler When Kenton travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling and stranded with no money.
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The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki.
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Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler A chilling psychological thriller and one of the greatest post-apocalyptic novels ever written.
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Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim.
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Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead.
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The Death of Grass by John Christopher When a deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it across country to the safety of his brother's farm in a hidden valley, their humanity is tested to its very limits.
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The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone – and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley.
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos In 1949 two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings.
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A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour.
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All My Sons by Arthur Miller In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree – a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War – has been torn down by a storm.
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Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller In Vichy France, 1942, a group of Jewish men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed.
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After the Fall by Arthur Miller After the Fall is often seen as the most explicitly autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, and Maggie as an unflinching portrait of Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe, only two years after her suicide.
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Baby Doll and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction.
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'.
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War.
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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison Written in 1966 and made into the science-fiction film Soylent Green, this is a witty and unnerving story about stretching the earth's resources, and the human spirit, to breaking point.
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The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
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Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems by Allen Ginsberg Ginsberg, as chief figure among the Beats, was at the centre of a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry.
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Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. |
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London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop.
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The Flood by J. M .G. Le Clezio François Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, his thoughts eventually lead to violence.
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Terra Amata by J. M .G. Le Clezio For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings. |
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Fever by J. M .G. Le Clezio Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power. |
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The Harp in the South Novels by Ruth Park
Three of Ruth Park's best loved books – Missus, The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange – are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years.
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Junky by William S. Burroughs Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written.
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The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking.
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Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs The hallucinatory landscape of William Burroughs' compellingly bizarre, fragmented novel is constantly shifting, and something sinister is always just beneath the surface.
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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control.
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The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg This mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - sees Burroughs journeying through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg.
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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun Because Kully's father has written the wrong things about his country, and because there might be a war coming her family can't go back to Germany.
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Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan Published when she was only nineteen, Françoise Sagan's astonishing first novel became an instant bestseller.
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On Photography This groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding the art form. |
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism.
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The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore
Marshall McLuhan predicted the all-pervasive rise of the modern mass media. Blending text, image and photography, this 1960s classic illustrates how the growth of technology utterly reshapes society.
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Design as Art by Bruno Munari Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'.
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The Psychedelic Experience From Timothy Leary's first trip in Mexico in 1960, his life's work became exploring and preaching the benefits that psychedelic drugs had to offer. |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. |
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Anthem by Ayn Rand Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. |
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Hothouse by Brian Aldiss In a strange future, the few remaining humans are regularly consumed by savage greenery, and their only allies are the giant Termights. |
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The Essential Groucho ed by Stefan Kanfer Groucho was the linchpin of the Marx Brothers, the brilliant comic act that emerged from New York to conquer the vaudeville circuit, Hollywood and then the world by the end of the 1920s.
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Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working class Jewish childhood in the East End of London. >>read more |
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha, a handsome Brahmin's son, is clever and well loved, yet increasingly dissatisfied with the life that is expected of him. >>read more |
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Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories by Ian Fleming Inside this collection you'll find From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico, The Hildebrand Rarity, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, The Property of a Lady and 007 in New York.
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The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers Few writers have expressed the search for love and the need for human understanding with such power and poetic sensibility as Carson McCullers.
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, shy and alienated from society. His dispair and desire for death draw him into a dark, enchanted underworld.
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The Glass Arena by John Healy John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence and soon finds himself overwhelmed by alcoholism.
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On the Road: the Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac On the Road: the Original Scroll is the first ever paperback publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book – transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself.
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Robert Graves: Complete Short Stories by Robert Graves On the themes of love and war, myth and history, these pieces illustrate the brilliance of Robert Graves in the short-story form.
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic.
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South From Granada by Gerald Brenan Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War.
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The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea by Randolph Stow In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer.
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...
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The Children's Bach by Helen Garner Athena and Dexter lead an enclosed family life, innocent of fashion and bound towards a disturbed child.
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Honour & Other People's Children by Helen Garner Helen Garner examines the idiosyncratic and bothersome notions of honour by which her characters - adults and children - shape their untidy lives.
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A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi This landmark selection of seventeen short stories, translated into English for the first time, opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate.
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux Paul Theroux's epic journey by rail through India and Asia where he encounters a huge variety of places and people, food, faiths and cultures.
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux Beginning his journey in Boston, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip.
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My Father's Moon by Elizabeth Jolley One of Elizabeth Jolley's finest novels, full of alarming perceptions, black irony and tenderness. It is a remarkable achievement.
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Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been.
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The Georges' Wife by Elizabeth Jolley Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings.
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Marry Me by John Updike Over a summer of snatched weekends, furtive phone calls and illicit trysts under the hot sun at Connecticut beach, Sally and Jerry begin a passionate affair.
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The Assistant by Robert Walser Robert Walser claimed to have written The Assistant, a semi-autobiographical work, in just six weeks as an entry for a literary competition. The second of his few surviving novels, it is now regarded as major work of modernist literature.
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Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers In a small town in the American South, four men, young and old, consider their pasts and their futures.
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The Victim by Saul Bellow While his wife is away visiting her mother, Leventhal feels lost and alone. One evening, seeking relief from the New York heat wave, he is accosted in a park near his apartment by a seedy-looking drunk.
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The Actual by Saul Bellow Harry Trellman, an ageing, astute Chicago businessman, has never really belonged anywhere. His human attachments, life everything else in his life, are singular and irregular.
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Ravelstein by Saul Bellow A tale of philosophy, love, mortality, vaudeville routines and $4,500 suits ensues as two old rogues come to scrutinize their very existence.
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To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and this is his account of his time there.
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The Dean's December by Saul Bellow Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his scathing articles on city corruption and his involvement in the trial of two black people charged with killing a white student.
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The Empty Space by Peter Brook Passionate, unconventional and fascinating, this book shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions and creates lasting memories for its audiences.
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The Theory of the Modern Stage ed by Eric Bentley Eric Bentley, brings together landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had a profound effect on the theatre since the mid nineteenth century.
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Monkey Grip by Helen Garner Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. A lyrical and gritty first novel that deserves its place as a classic of Australian literature.
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Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner Eleven stories about the complexities of live and love; of looking back and longing; of what it means to be a stranger, on foreign ground and known.
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Science Fiction Omnibus by Brian Aldiss This new edition of Brian Aldiss's classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years.
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POPism by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett A cultural storm swept through the 1960s – Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies – and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol.
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Love in a Fallen City: And Other Stories by Eileen Chang Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction.
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Herzog by Saul Bellow Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend and he is left alone with his whirling thoughts.
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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations.
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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow A hilarious, often ribald story, Henderson the Rain King is also a profound look at the forces that drive a man through life.
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Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among crazy people.
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It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow Saul Bellow's fiction, honoured by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. |
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The Lucky Country by Donald Horne The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony.
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Memoirs by Tennassee Williams When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media – though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking. |
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago.
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built.
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All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. |
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The Centaur by John Updike In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life.
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Of The Farm by John Updike Joey Robinson is a thirty-live-year-old advertising consultant working in the urban jungle of Manhattan. One day, Joey decides to return to the farm where he grew up, and where his mother still lives. |
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Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. |
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Dangling Man by Saul Bellow This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him Herzog sees himself as a survivor. |
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Collected Stories by Saul Bellow This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance. |
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More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.'
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Seize the Day by Saul Bellow In the course of one climatic day Tommy reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope... |
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