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Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewi ...Show more
Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Tabucchi's country, culture and peopleIn the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnig ...Show more
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, te ...Show more
Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most import ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Athens by PLUTARCH
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu ...Show more
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury, scornful of the law's pomposities, appears here in a new edition of the 1978 iconic Rumpole debut.This volume collects the much-loved stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', 'Rumpole and the Alterna ...Show more
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler, Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, ...Show more
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Presenting ten essays, the author addresses the Russian minds of the nineteenth century: Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky and Tolstoy, as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. He describes this as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social chan ...Show more
SS-GB by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A chilling alternative history of the Second World War, in which the Nazis have conquered Britain In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall... For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depress ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and show ...Show more
Scenes Of Clerical Life by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when "Scenes of Clerical Life" appeared in "Blackwood's Magazine" in 1857. These stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, a ...Show more