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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
An Inspector Calls & Other Plays: Time & The Conways; I Have Been Here Before; An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Previously published as Time and the Conways and Other Plays, J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls and Other Plays collects four groundbreaking works by a master playwright in Penguin Modern Classics. An Inspector Calls, written at a time when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has been pro ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money'. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himse ...Show more
Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful rediscovery. . . human, suspenseful, shot through with hard-earned wisdom' - Lee Child One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third Reich April 1945, the last days of the Nazi ...Show more
Beyond the Glass by Antonia White; Carmen Callil (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world ...Show more