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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
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...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
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
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Category: Classics | 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.
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...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
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
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Poeticsby Aristotleely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play cont ...Show more