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Friedrich Nietzsche,
Ecce Homo

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am not a man, I am dynamiteWeeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A…

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Leo N. Tolstoi
Family Happiness

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I'm not the sort of husband you dream of when you're walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn't it?'H…

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Vincent Van Gogh
For Art and for Life

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Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became The S…

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Dante
Hell

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Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . . Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the ultimate evil: Satan himself. Masterfully translated by Doro…

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Edgar Allan Poe
Hop-Frog

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Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his…

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Dorothy Parker
Horsie

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWhat can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I'll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I'd li…

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Ota Pavel
How I Came to Know Fish

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing.'Through tender, vivid, …

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Hafez
I am a Bird from Paradise

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly reflected sign.From the greatest and most pop…

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Eileen Chang
Jasmine Tea

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and li…

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Romain Gary
Lady L.

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale'In the heart of the English countryside,…

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Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected - take us into …

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Elizabeth Gaskell
Lois the Witch

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Beware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly on the wind and witchcraft is abroad. Lois Barclay, cursed in childhood, is …

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Wu Cheng'en
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Wu Cheng'en's 16^th^-century novel Journey to the Westis widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lo…

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night Flight

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exup…

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Nikolai Leskov,
Night Owls

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'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, …

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Emily Brontë
No Coward Soul Is Mine

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Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë's heart-rending poems, we uncover a soul una…

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Gerard de Nerval
October Nights

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In October Nights , Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included …

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D. H. Lawrence
Odour of Chrysanthemums

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will com…

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Gertrude Stein
Paris France

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older wom…

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June Jordan
Passion

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break open the silen…

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