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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner) Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
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Category: HISTORY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
Idylls of the King by ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; C. B. MacPherson (Introduction by)
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Throughout his long life Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) associated with some of the most celebrated thinkers of the age and witnessed some of its most dramatic events; it is therefore no wonder that his philosophy is regarded as among the most original and influential in Western philosophy. Motivated as much ...Show more
Little Birds by Anais Nin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | 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 Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Man's Estate by André Malraux
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mans ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Mary M. Innes (Translator)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Here a chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order: animals turn to stone; men and women become trees and stars. Ovid hi ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more