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Oh Jung-Hee,
Chinatown

Penguin Modern Classics

In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In '…

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Selma Lagerlöf,
A Book for Christmas

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure--now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classics HardcoverA little girl receives a gift to tr…

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Yukio Mishima,
Voices of the Fallen Heroes

Penguin Modern Classics

'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enríquez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon A writ…

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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

Penguin Modern Classics

'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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Georges Simenon,
The Cat

Penguin Modern Classics

'Remarkable' New York Times ' No one is better than Simenon at showing how banal domestic conflict can lead to murderous catastrophe' Financial TimesAn acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estran…

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

Penguin Modern Classics

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter…

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Len Deighton
London Match

Penguin Modern Classics

'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times 'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then h…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Penguin Modern Classics

Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, and biographies as well as her remarkable series of novels. She is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1993 was cr…

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John le Carré
A Perfect Spy

Penguin Modern Classics

John le Carr¿/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has liv…

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Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

Penguin Modern Classics

Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book,Under the Sea Wind , appeared in 1941. Silent Spring , which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse …

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

Penguin Modern Classics

'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

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Len Deighton
Berlin Game

Penguin Modern Classics

'Masterly ... dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the spy' O…

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James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room

Great Loves, Penguin Modern Classics

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl PhillipsDavid, a young American in…

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James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room

Penguin Modern Classics

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and co…

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Albert Camus
The Outsider

Penguin Modern Classics

Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched b…

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Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle

Penguin Modern Classics

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out…

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Louise Glück
Poems

Penguin Modern Classics

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intel…

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

Penguin Modern Classics

Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. …

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George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier

Penguin Modern Classics

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 sl…

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George Orwell
Down an Out in Paris and London

Penguin Modern Classics

'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Pa…

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