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Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent fi...
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Danielle N. (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Boaz
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• Author(s): Danielle N. (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Boaz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJean Rhys's late, lit...
View full detailsThe Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
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• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York Times With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson...
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Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhat makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in ...
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Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd"The Adventures of Augie March" is the great American Novel. Search no further. Martin Amis As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the gre...
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Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, ...
View full detailsThe Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, T...
View full detailsThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
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• Author(s): Gertrude Stein • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of ...
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Georges Bataille
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• Author(s): Georges Bataille • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern...
View full detailsInvitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTakes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays
Federico Garcia Lorca
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• Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes the plays The House of Bernarda Alba, Yerma, and Blood Wedding. These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality.
Bend Sinister
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and hap...
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A.J. Ayer
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• Author(s): A.J. Ayer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIf you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definitio...
View full detailsGo Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
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• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
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• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflic...
View full detailsThe Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs
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• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs is a reference book in which the word proverb is interpreted as a statement or maxim that contains advice (e.g. many hand make light work), a...
View full detailsThe Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers
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• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need...
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Carson McCullers
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• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a...
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Allen Ginsberg
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• Author(s): Allen Ginsberg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents chronologically works such as Paterson, selections from White Shroud, Cosmopolitan Greetings, and including the poems Howl and Kaddish as we...
View full detailsSword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh
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• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterfu...
View full detailsAn Inspector Calls and Other Plays
J B Priestley
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• Author(s): J B Priestley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes plays An Inspector Calls, Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before, and The Linden Tree.
Imagist Poetry
Peter Jones
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• Author(s): Peter Jones • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdImagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Po...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSpurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman, the narrator, V, sets out t...
View full detailsThe Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents the author's reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEthan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgr...
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John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJust after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to repor...
View full detailsThe Snow Goose and The Small Miracle
Paul Gallico
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• Author(s): Paul Gallico • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents stories The Snow Goose - set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is a tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl; an...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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• Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and wil...
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Patrick Kavanagh
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• Author(s): Patrick Kavanagh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMy part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but...
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Andre Gide
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• Author(s): Andre Gide • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. Bu...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of...
View full detailsMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir
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• Author(s): Simone de Beauvoir • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of...
View full detailsThe Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
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• Author(s): John Wyndham • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the ...
View full detailsKing, Queen, Knave
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary w...
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Ralph Ellison
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• Author(s): Ralph Ellison • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells the story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. In this book, the author from his expulsion from a Southern college to a ...
View full detailsWhite Teeth
Zadie Smith
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• Author(s): Zadie Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection 'Believe the hype' The Times 'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the...
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Truman Capote
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• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer, this work offers insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to j...
View full detailsThis Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• Author(s): Antoine de Saint-Exupery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Coming Up for Air
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGeorge Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture child...
View full detailsThe Total Library
Jorge Luis Borges
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• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThough best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely proli...
View full detailsIn Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA novel that fearlessly explores the line between principled defiance and blind fanaticism, John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle contains an introducti...
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John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1940 John Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his friend the biologist Edward F. Ricketts to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of ...
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Chinua Achebe
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• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Things Fall Apart' tells the story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene. Okonkwo becomes...
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Chinua Achebe
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• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'A Man of the People' is Achebe's analysis of post-independence African politics and of the overwhelming sense of disappointment and unease that fille...
View full detailsAnthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe
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• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAnthills of the Savannah is a frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to...
View full detailsMammaries Of The Welfare State
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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• Author(s): Upamanyu Chatterjee • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: LiteraryIn this sequel to Upamanyu Chatterjees debut novel, English, August, Agastya Senolder, funnier, more beleaguered, almost endearingan...
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Namita Gokhale
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• Author(s): Namita Gokhale • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralThe avengers of my vanity have broken me, humbled me with these small depredations of skin and bone and tissue, leaving me less than I was...
View full detailsThe Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton
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• Author(s): Alain de Botton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAlain de Botton pairs six philosophers - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - with six everyday problems to which the...
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Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is L...
View full detailsThe Mahabharata
R. K. Narayan
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• Author(s): R. K. Narayan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes characters who are obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley
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• Author(s): Alex Haley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBy the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the angriest black man in America. From hustling, cocaine addiction and armed vio...
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John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of interconnected tales devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that on...
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John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land; accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in...
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John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJuan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, sevent...
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Shashi Deshpande
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• Author(s): Shashi Deshpande • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Numerology Made Easy
Anupam V. Kapil
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• Author(s): Anupam V. Kapil • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury PressThis comprehensive introduction to numerology answers questions about the impact that numbers have on your life, career and personal relations...
View full detailsThe Chicken Cookbook
Sharda Pargal
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• Author(s): Sharda Pargal • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press
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Fernando Pessoa
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• Author(s): Fernando Pessoa • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, A...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSelf-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But the...
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