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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
Shallows by Tim Winton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger; Michael Hoffman (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to ...Show more
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, b ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more