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Carson McCullers
Reflections in a Golden Eye

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On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton - unhappily married to the unfaithful Leon…

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Antonio Tabucchi,
Requiem

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to…

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Czeslaw Milosz
Rescue

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Collecting two of his most celebrated works - Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry - a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos - here lie the sharp…

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Vladimir Nabokov
Revenge

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a mid…

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W. B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church stands near, By the road a…

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Mary Gaitskill
Secretary

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and disloca…

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Lafcadio Hearn
Some Japanese Ghosts

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'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore are in this book driven back into the world of the living…

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Georges Simenon
Stan the Killer

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming d…

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Hermann Hesse
Strange News from Another Planet

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit..…

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Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'Allen Ginsberg's poet…

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Maryse Condé
Tales from the Heart

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative st…

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Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there …

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Rabindranath Tagore
The Broken Nest

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead or Alive' - he is at …

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Bram Stoker
The Burial of the Rats

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram St…

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Clarice Lispector
The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm TóibínA housewife's life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing co…

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Charles Dickens
The Chimes

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Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year's Eve, summoned to the church tower by…

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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants inste…

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Shirley Jackson
The Daemon Lover

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It's terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terriblyimportant.Sometimes, …

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifyi…

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Karen Blixen
The Dreaming Child

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'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative…

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