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  • THE DIALOGUE OF TWO SNAILS
    THE DIALOGUE OF TWO SNAILS
    GARCÍA LORCA, FEDERICO
    My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silverBeautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations. ...
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  • PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
    PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
    FREIRE, PAULO
    'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, GuardianArguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep the poor powerless by treating them as passive, silent recipients of knowledge. ...
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  • OROONOKO
    OROONOKO
    BEHN, APHRA
    'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .'Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels. ...
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  • LEVIATHAN
    LEVIATHAN
    HOBBES, THOMAS
    'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporari...
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  • RABBIT AT REST
    RABBIT AT REST
    UPDIKE, JOHN
    It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru...
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  • THE LIFTED VEIL
    THE LIFTED VEIL
    ELIOT, GEORGE
    'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?'In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death. ...
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  • GREEN TEA
    GREEN TEA
    LE FANU,SHERIDAN
    'A ghastly groan and a shudder..'From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works...
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  • A HIPPO BANQUET
    A HIPPO BANQUET
    KINGSLEY, MARY
    'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet.'Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool.Introduci...
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  • A KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE
    A KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE
    HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY
    'O let them be left, wildness and wet'As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range...
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  • TRIMALCHIO'S FEAST
    TRIMALCHIO'S FEAST
    PETRONIUS
    'I blush to say what happened next.'A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio. ...
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  • WOMAN MUCH MISSED
    WOMAN MUCH MISSED
    HARDY, THOMAS
    After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across...
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  • O CRUEL ALEXIS
    O CRUEL ALEXIS
    VIRGIL
    'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream,Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.'Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems. ...
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  • A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
    A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
    WELLS, H. G.
    . 'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.'Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, ...
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  • AGUA VIVA
    AGUA VIVA
    LISPECTOR, CLARICE
    In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent sponta...
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  • SELECTED AND LAST POEMS, 1931-2004
    SELECTED AND LAST POEMS, 1931-2004
    MILOSZ, CZESLAW
    This is the most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life. This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his...
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  • THE RAINBOW
    THE RAINBOW
    D.H. LAWRENCE
    With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly after first publication. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Wood.Set in the rural Midlands, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting...
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  • BIG SUR
    BIG SUR
    KEROUAC, JACK
    In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-d...
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  • CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
    CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
    DAHL, ROALD
    What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka?s famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka?s orders? In Dahl?s most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded.A delectable new Deluxe edition of this wonderful classic. ...
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  • A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY
    A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY
    LE CARRE, JOHN
    'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New StatesmanWest Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of...
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  • THE SIGN OF FOUR
    THE SIGN OF FOUR
    CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR
    As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large,...
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  • RAGTIME
    RAGTIME
    DOCTOROW, E.L.
    Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Al Alvarez.Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, w...
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  • THE BHAGAVAD GITA
    THE BHAGAVAD GITA
    ANONIMO
    The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counse...
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  • NATIONALISM
    NATIONALISM
    TAGORE, RABINDRANATH
    Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other....
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  • RABBIT REDUX
    RABBIT REDUX
    UPDIKE, JOHN
    It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - c...
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  • THE DHARMA BUMS
    THE DHARMA BUMS
    KEROUAC, JACK
    Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. ...
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  • CLAUDIUS THE GOD
    CLAUDIUS THE GOD
    GRAVES, ROBERT
    Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of absolute ...
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  • NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1931-2001
    NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1931-2001
    CZESLAW MILOSZ
    New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the ...
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  • CALIGULA AND OTHER PLAYS
    CALIGULA AND OTHER PLAYS
    CAMUS, ALBERT
    Caligula reveals some aspects of the existential notion of 'the absurd' by portraying an emperor so mighty and so desperate in his search for freedom that he inevitably destroys gods, men and himself. The dramatic impetus of Cross Purpose, however, comes from the tension between consent to and refusal of man's absurdity; it is the tragedy of a man who returns home to his mother...
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  • AN ANTHOLOGY
    AN ANTHOLOGY
    SIMONE WEIL
    Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and includes an extract from her best-known work u003ciu003eThe Need for Rootsu003c/iu003e,exploring the ways in which modern society fails the human soul; her thoughts on the misuse of ...
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  • PERSUASION
    PERSUASION
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Jane Austen’s last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a Cinderella love storyAt twenty-­seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encou...
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