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Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fading charmer, Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood ...Show more
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot th ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Short Stories: Volume 2 - Friendly Brook and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Edited by Andrew Rutherford.
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirt ...Show more
Smiley's People by John le Carré
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end.A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is cal ...Show more
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the t ...Show more
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The opposing Bolivian Army was backed by the CIA, and Che and his men fought bravely in the jungle of Boli ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a str ...Show more