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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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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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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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Emily Brontë
No Coward Soul Is Mine

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Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë's heart-rending poems, we uncover a soul una…

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Vincent Van Gogh
For Art and for Life

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Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became The S…

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Audre Lorde
Coal

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.'Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coalshowcase…

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Stefan Zweig,
Chess

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMy delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my w…

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia,
Baron Bagge

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Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, uns…

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Stanislaw Lem
The Seventh Voyage

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Journey into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure 'The Seventh Voyage' are reminiscent of Douglas Adams, while the spectral whispers haun…

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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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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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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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June Jordan
Passion

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break open the silen…

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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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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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Archie Shepp (geb. 1937)

Four For Trane (UHQ-CD)

Vier der fünf Stücke auf »Four for Trane«, die Archie Shepp 1965 für das Impulse-Label aufnahm, sind Überarbeitungen von Stücken, die John Coltrane 1959 und 1960 aufgenommen und auf seinen Alben »Giant St…

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Zwischen Himmel und Eis

Eisig, unnahbar und wunderschön - scheinbar endlos erstrecken sich die Schneelandschaften der Antarktis. Doch das Jahrtausende alte Eis hütet ein Geheimnis: Unzählige eingeschlossene Luftbläschen aus Urze…

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Archie Shepp (geb. 1937)

Four For Trane (SHM-CD)

Vier der fünf Stücke auf »Four for Trane«, die Archie Shepp 1965 für das Impulse-Label aufnahm, sind Überarbeitungen von Stücken, die John Coltrane 1959 und 1960 aufgenommen und auf seinen Alben »Giant St…

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