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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minnowsof shadows and silverBeautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.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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  • MAIGRET AND THE TALL WOMAN
    MAIGRET AND THE TALL WOMAN
    GEORGES SIMENON
    “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The GuardianA visit from a tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago—now married to a hapless burglar—leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a for...
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • THE PATH TO THE SPIDERS' NESTS
    THE PATH TO THE SPIDERS' NESTS
    ITALO CALVINO
    Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among ...
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  • THE RAMAYANA
    THE RAMAYANA
    R. K. NARAYAN
    The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytellingA Penguin Classic A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in di...
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  • MOMENTS OF REPRIEVE
    MOMENTS OF REPRIEVE
    PRIMO LEVI
    Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic bac...
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  • LUCKY JIM
    LUCKY JIM
    AMIS, KINGSLEY
    'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome adv...
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  • IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
    IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
    PRIMO LEVI
    Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts ...
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  • THE LAIS OF MARIE DE FRANCE
    THE LAIS OF MARIE DE FRANCE
    MARIE DE FRANCE
    The leading edition of the work of the earliest known French woman poet—the subject of Lauren Groff’s bestselling novel MatrixMarie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais—stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance—are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais i...
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  • SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR AND OTHER PLAYS
    SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR...
    LUIGI PIRANDELLO
    A volume of plays from the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, including his most popular and controversial workA Penguin ClassicPirandello is brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre. This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of ...
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  • MARTIN EDEN
    MARTIN EDEN
    LONDON, JACK
    The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a ...
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  • THE ENNEADS
    THE ENNEADS
    PLOTINUS
    Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme perfection and argued powerfully that it was necessary to guide the human soul towards this state. Here he outlines his compelling b...
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  • ZADIG; L'INGENU
    ZADIG; L'INGENU
    FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE
    One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France ...
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  • MY CHILDHOOD
    MY CHILDHOOD
    GORKY, MAXIM
    Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his gran...
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  • A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
    A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
    THOMAS HARDY
    When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But societal pressures, and the advent of the superior Henry Knight, eventually displace her affections....
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  • FEVER
    FEVER
    LE CLÉZIO, JEAN-MARIE GUSTAVE
    In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clézio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways ...
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  • TRIVIA: OR, THE ART OF WALKING THE STREETS OF LONDON
    TRIVIA: OR, THE ART OF WALKING THE...
    GAY, JOHN
    O! may thy Virtue guard thee through the RoadsOf Drury's mazy Courts, and dark Abodes,The Harlots guileful Paths, who nightly stand,Where Katherine-street descends into the Strand. ...
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  • MAIGRET AND THE MINISTER
    MAIGRET AND THE MINISTER
    SIMENON, GEORGES
    'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of fresh air... It made him feel almost fond of the petty thieves, maniacs, swindlers and offenders of all kinds that he usually had to deal with.'Maigret has no taste for politics, or politicians, but when he is summ...
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  • BRODIE´S REPORT
    BRODIE´S REPORT
    BORGES , JORGE LUIS
    At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other Duel,” are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists ar...
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  • TWENTY LOVE POEMS AND A SONG OF DESPAIR
    TWENTY LOVE POEMS AND A SONG OF DESPAIR
    NERUDA , PABLO
    The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larraín's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal A Penguin Classic When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanis...
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  • A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OH THE INDIES
    A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OH...
    DE LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME
    Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which sho...
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