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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawki ...Show more
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o ...Show more
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's ...Show more
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt' In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declara ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: --Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the da ...Show more
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would me ...Show more
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-ma ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"Venus in Furs" describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct hims ...Show more