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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

Penguin Modern Classics

'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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Selma Lagerlöf,
A Book for Christmas

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An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure--now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classics HardcoverA little girl receives a gift to tr…

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Brigitte Reimann,
Siblings

Penguin Modern Classics

'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and division…

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John le Carré
A Perfect Spy

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John le Carr¿/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has liv…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, and biographies as well as her remarkable series of novels. She is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1993 was cr…

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Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book,Under the Sea Wind , appeared in 1941. Silent Spring , which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse …

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

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Edward W. Said
Orientalism

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Edward W. Said was a university professor at Columbia University. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include The Question of Palestine, Culture a…

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Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman

Penguin Modern Classics

Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will …

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Len Deighton
London Match

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'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times 'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then h…

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George Orwell
Down an Out in Paris and London

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'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Pa…

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter…

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John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bri…

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William S. Burroughs
The Soft Machine

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A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includesNova Express and The Ticket That Exploded . The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual …

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Shirley Jackson
Raising Demons

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'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and bril…

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Silvia Federici
Caliban and the Witch

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'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room A cult classic since its publication in the early years o…

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Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle

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Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out…

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Louise Glück
Poems

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A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intel…

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George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier

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Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped sl…

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George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant

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This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "Shooting an Elephant", "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of an English Mu…

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