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Man's Estate by André Malraux
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
Modern Grill and Garden by Martha Gill
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Ser.
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s- a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. In this acclaimed first novel, Helen Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends who are living and loving in new ways. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make s ...Show more
Mountain Magic: Explore the Secrets of Mountain Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer
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Category: New Age | Series: Modern Folk Magic Ser.
Discover the wisdom and magic of Appalachia through Mountain Magic, an illustrated guide to the occult power of the hills and hollows. The people of Appalachia and the American backwoods have a long and deep magical tradition, one rooted in the power of place, land, and nature. With a creativity and in ...Show more
Mythology by Pierre Maranda (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Sociology Readings Ser.
Narziss and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse. It is a theme that transcends all time. The Hess ...Show more
Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles TimesA dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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Category: POLITICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United St ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.