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Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima; Stephen Dodd (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled ...Show more
Life with a Capital L: Essays Chosen and Introduced by Geoff Dyer by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his brilliantly varied essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine ...Show more
Little Birds by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | 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
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And Other Stories by Antonio Tabucchi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Blended with the author's wonderfu ...Show more
Little Women (Clothbound Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Louisa May Alcott's heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sisters This treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott's personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Be ...Show more
London Match by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Bernard Samson becomes a pawn in a game played by the Kremlin in the final instalment of the Game, Set and Match trilogyLong-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that t ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Three plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more
Madame Bovary by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passio ...Show more
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, "The Two Hussars" contrasts a dashing father and hi ...Show more