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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: POLITICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner) Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
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Category: HISTORY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
Little Birds by Anais Nin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Man's Estate by André Malraux
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgeme ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they ca ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more