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The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix Tie-In) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers'She was close to the edge now: the ice laid its ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and the silly'This is the most powerful portrait of England - and why it must change - ever written. Composed as bombs were falling over London at the height of the blitz, it remains ...Show more
The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, this is a classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a masterful retelling of the ancient myths and fables we may only think we know. From the tale of Europa and the bull to the fall of Troy, Roberto Calasso weaves his way through the entire world of Greek mythology with a captivating sense of curiosity and intrigue t ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Mortgaged Heart by MCCULLERS CARSON
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mortgaged Heart" is an important collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection al ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses ...Show more
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brand new transaction of the "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical market.
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more