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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Little Birds by Anais Nin
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy ...Show more
Little Women (Clothbound Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Louisa May Alcott's heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sisters This treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott's personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Be ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. 'Gurdjieff's voice is heard as a call. He calls because he suffers from the inner chaos in which we live. He calls to us to open our eyes. He asks us why we are here, what we wish for, ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that ...Show more
My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. His extraordinary autobiography was first published in ...Show more
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunchis an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked Lunch's formal innovat ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Njal's Saga by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more