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Albert Camus
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, town…

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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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Gerard de Nerval
October Nights

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In October Nights , Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included …

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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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Ota Pavel
How I Came to Know Fish

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing.'Through tender, vivid, …

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Italo Calvino,
Under the Jaguar Sun

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my th…

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M. R. James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection give…

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Arthur Schnitzler
A Confirmed Bachelor

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised me…

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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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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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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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Frank O'Connor
The Genius

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Known as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our s…

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Katherine Mansfield
A Dill Pickle

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksShe drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a magician of the short…

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George Orwell
Can Socialists be Happy?

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, Geor…

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Sei Shonagon
A Lady in Kyoto

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be...Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's palac…

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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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Tove Ditlevsen
The Umbrella

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rich Boy

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . .In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet…

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Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly...Jewels i…

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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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