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A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Also includes: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Damage by Josephine Hart
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Category: SALE - All $10.00!!! | Series: Virago Modern Classics
The debut novel by Josephine Hart, reissued as a Virago Modern Classic - a chilling exploration of physical passion and psychological darkness. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. 'DAMAGE', Josephine Hart's debut novel, an international bestseller, filmed with Jeremy Irons and Juli ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he help ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Classics
Re-release of John Le Carré's most surprising book. Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared.Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur g ...Show more
The English Patient: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more