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John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down

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Explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Now available in a new A format edition.

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Clarice Lispector,
The Passion According to G.H

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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by WomenG.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been remo…

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Peter Green, Simone de Beauvoir,
The Prime of Life

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The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an inti…

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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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Elaine Kraf
The Princess of 72nd Street

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'A cult classic ... A high and a comedown at once - a paroxysm of sex and booze and, above all, colour ... wryly funny ... it is also devastating' The New Yorker An unforgettable portrait of a smart, sens…

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Yasunari Kawabata,
The Rainbow

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'In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan' Edmund White With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan…

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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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Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky

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Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intendi…

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Aharon Appelfeld
The Story of a Life

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An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in wh…

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Kobo Abe,
The Woman in the Dunes

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Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have …

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William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
The Yage Letters

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William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky , by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final…

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Tove Ditlevsen,
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

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A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary p…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Tokyo Express

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'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The …

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Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer

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Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Clas…

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James Joyce
Ulysses

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Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition.…

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Tove Ditlevsen,
Vilhelm's Room

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I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her …

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Yukio Mishima,
Voices of the Fallen Heroes

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'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enríquez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon A writ…

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Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea

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Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Pe…

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John Cowper Powys
Wolf Solent

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'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson 'A genius ... a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion' Margaret Drabble John Cowper Powys's epic Wolf Solent centres around the story of a young man…

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Brigitte Reimann,
Woman in the Pillory

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Kathrin - five years into a disenchanting marriage - struggles to work the farm with her sister-in-law while her husband Heinrich is away fighting for the Third Reich. To help them with the harvest, Heinr…

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