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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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Hafez
I am a Bird from Paradise

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly reflected sign.From the greatest and most pop…

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Snorri Sturluson,
The Prose Edda

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Composed in Iceland in the 13^th^ Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage t…

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Andy Warhol
Beauty

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.'From Warhol's romantic relationships to his thoughts on interio…

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Wang Xiaobo
The Maverick Pig

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From the …

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Walter Benjamin
Unpacking My Library

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.'From intimate musings on his book …

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Jack Kerouac
Tristessa

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying…

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Seneca
Why I am a Stoic

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters writt…

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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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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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Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected - take us into …

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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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Maurice Leblanc
The Escape of Arsène Lupin

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.'In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disgu…

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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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Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLuminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Strav…

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Epictetus
Whatever is Rational is Tolerable

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I must die. But must I die bawling?'What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In these teachings from Book…

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Chester Himes
All God's Chillun Got Pride

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short…

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D. H. Lawrence
Odour of Chrysanthemums

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will com…

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Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to nameNuns, m…

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Saadat Hasan Manto
The Price of Freedom

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of Indi…

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