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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union, this is the story of labor camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov and his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of Communist oppression. Based on the author's own experience in the gulags, where he spent nearly a ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the moment Melquiades the Gypsy walks into the jungle settlement of Macondo nothing is ever the same again. He brings to this protected Eden knowledge and the tools of discovery. This is a modern parable told without moralizing, its strength lying in its ability to make us laugh in sympathy.
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in Paris. Yet there is on ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Remembrance of Things Past 2: The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, fal ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, ...Show more
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre; Eric Sutton (Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom. Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the cafés and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searin ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, b ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Six Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga Volume 3 by John Galsworthy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Galworthy's sweeping trilogy of family fortunes began with the crumbling values of the Victorian Age, moved through the First World War, and now concludes in the 1930's, where more dramatic change is taking place. In this final volume of The Forsyte SagaGalsworthy writes about the lives and loves o ...Show more
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with military matters. But the Department has been moribund since the War; its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics.The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawn ...Show more