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The Penguin Book of Oulipo - Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry (Editor)
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology.' - The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement.' - Daily Telegraph 'Philip Terry's collection is packed with fabulous, wide-ranging work that displays the full ingenuity, brio and originality of O ...Show more
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B. Himes
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday Times The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for ...Show more
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's ...Show more
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
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Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust--all the elements of Kawabata's fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N-ō drama." --"Saturday R ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Trial (original German title: Der Process,later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of ...Show more
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
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Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in L ...Show more
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed ...Show more
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more