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Lonesome Traveller by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith Grossman (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: Music & Entertainment | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
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
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels.Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime ...Show more
Night by Elie Wiesel
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity - the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, ...Show more
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The wonderful Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories collects, for the first time, nine festive stories originally written for annuals and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s . . . As ever, Streatfeild's children always feel utterly real and relatable. A beautifully produced treat' Anna Carey, Irish TimesIn ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Category: No Category | 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: Classics | 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
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift- a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes i ...Show more
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more