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Guilty Men by John Stevenson (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A polemic against Chamberlain, MacDonald, and Baldwin whom the author Cato, a pseudonym for Michael Foot, Frank Owen, and Peter Howard, regarded as having brought the country to the brink of disaster through their policy of appeasement. First published in 1940
Hurry on Down by John Wain
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of dark ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Selected Stories by Lardner Ring
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This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner's best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as "Alibi Ike," "Some Like Them Cold," and "Guillible's Travels." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publishe ...Show more
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark; William Boyd (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to 'bring vision into the lives of the workers'. A devilishly charismatic force of nature who likes nothing better than to stir things up, he takes great delight in w ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood (Translator); Idris Parry (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
The protagonist, known only as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle above it shrouded in mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle, the officials who run the bureacracy that governs the village, K. ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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The only complete collection of writings by Anne Frank, this impressive volume contains three of the extant versions of her Diary (including pages that came to light in 1998), Tales from the Secret Annex (he lesser known short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences), and Cady's Life (her unfinished ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Sea-Wind (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Edge of the Sea is the third and final book in the sea trilogy written by the American marine biologist.
The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson; Charles E. Modlin (Contribution by)
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Published two years after the 1919 masterpiece "Winesburg, Ohio," this collection of short stories explores intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and bursts of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more