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A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jaz ...Show more
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara; Allan Massie (Foreword by)
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'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarralives frighteningly in the mind' John UpdikeJulian English prides himself a member of his hometown?s social elite, but from the moment he throws a ...Show more
Beatrice and Her Son by Arthur Schnitzler; Martin Swales (Foreword by)
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Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen; David Coward (Introduction by, Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Published in 1968 Belle du Seigneur is the longest love story in French literature. At one level it is a hiliarious mock-epic concerning the mental world of the cuckold in the affair - a minor bureaucrat in the United Nations.
Cards of Identity by Nigel Dennis; Jones Mars (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A scathing satire of psychology, identity theory, and class prejudice, Cards of Identity is centered around the Identity Club, a group of psychologists who meet annually to present "case histories" promoting their chosen theory of identity. These case studies (three of which are presented in the novel) ...Show more
Children of the Albatross by Anaïs Nin
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: "The Sealed Room" focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; "The Cafe" brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the s ...Show more
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee; Susan Hill (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a world that is tangibly real and yet reminiscent of a now distant past. In this idyllic pastoral setting, unencumbered by the callous father who so quickly aban ...Show more
Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker; Mikki Bresse (Editor); Regina Barreca (Introduction by)
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Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling
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Contents Include: The Enemies to Each Other -The Changelings - Sea Constables: A Tale of '15 - The Vineyard - 'Banquet Night' - 'In the Interests of Brethren - To the Companions (Horace, Ode 17, Bk. V.) - The United Idolaters - The Centaurs - 'Late came the God' - The Wish House - Rahere - The Survival ...Show more
Flying Home - And Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
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Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." ...Show more