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• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Often cited as one of the...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This text contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a foreword by Shade's editor, ...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAfter his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work p...

• Author(s): Antoine Saint-Exupery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAntoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several clas...

• Author(s): Norman Mailer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMuhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his i...

• Author(s): Thornton Wilder • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franc...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn annotated edition of Lolita. It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It als...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdProfessor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life an...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTaking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social dis...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThese pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's Home; Excursion in Reality; ...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and politic...

• Author(s): Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEver wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. That's exactly w...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThough universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual ...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFull of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges s most fully realized human characters. With uncann...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOffers accounts of 'Funes the Memorious', the man who can forget nothing; 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', who recreates Miguel de Cervante...

• Author(s): Primo Levi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPrimo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary li...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJohn Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the Amer...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, ...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSteinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Publi...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJody Tiflin is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody ...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck s tale of ...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJohn Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, and perhaps his funniest novel, Tortilla Flat includes a critical introduction by Thoma...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring, published with an introdu...

• Author(s): Primo Levi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of memoirs by Primo Levi, published in Italian as Ii Sistema Periodico in 1975. Regarded as his masterwork, it is a cycle of 21 autobiograph...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevat...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.'When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDiscovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he ...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRomance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture. The story exhibits some of the perversity of 'Lolita...

• Author(s): Paul Bowles • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his ma...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come insi...

• Author(s): Bruce Patton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhat is a difficult conversation? Asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to your boss or spouse, confronting a friend or neighbor, asking a difficult favor...

• Author(s): Robert L Heilbroner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWith over two million copies sold worldwide, The Worldly Philosophers is one of the most widely read texts on the history of economics ever writ...

• Author(s): William Yeats • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdW.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few have lived their ideas so passion...

• Author(s): Antoine Saint-Exupery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exup ry (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are...

• Author(s): Antoine Saint-Exupery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBoth a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an ...

• Author(s): Carlo Levi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdExiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in b...

• Author(s): Barry Hines • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWith prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword b...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOriginally called Doctor Brodie's Report in the first English translation, these short stories demonstrate Borges's inspiration and his ability to...

• Author(s): Nancy Mitford • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper cl...

• Author(s): Patrick Kavanagh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Andre Gide • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMichel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire to...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhat happened to the characters of DECLINE AND FALL and VILE BODIES when the war broke out? PUT OUT MORE FLAGS shows them adjusting to the changing soc...

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdZen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the masters. In addition to 101 Zen Stories, this volume con...

• Author(s): Christine Barrely • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party....

• Author(s): Roald Dahl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien ...

• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, "Death of a Salesman" has been ...

• Author(s): T. E. Lawrence • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSeven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt dur...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the ...

• Author(s): Anais Nin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdConjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.

• Author(s): Jean Rhys • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHer grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited wi...

• Author(s): John Kennedy Toole • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshp...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Social...

• Author(s): John W Dower • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDrawing on a range of sources from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, John Dower examines the impact of military defeat and occupation on ...

• Author(s): Werner Heisenberg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNobel Prize winner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle.

• Author(s): Gilbert Ryle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and ...

• Author(s): Jean Rhys • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod ...

• Author(s): Jean Rhys • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight inc...

• Author(s): Jean Rhys • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known, ' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Ind...