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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
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
Man's Estate by André Malraux
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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
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
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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 Magnus Magnusson (Translator); Hermann Palsson (Translator)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This Saga, written by an unknown Icelandic writer in the last quarter of the 13th century, is the mightiest of all the classical Icelandic sagas. It is an epic prose narrative about people who lived in Iceland, intensely and often violently, some 300 years before this saga was written.
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