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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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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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Mikhail Bulgakov
A Dog's Heart

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What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov's topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, …

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Franz Kafka
A Hunger-Artist

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-a…

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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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Willa Cather
A Lost Lady

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How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her…

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Laurie Lee
A Moment of War

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In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borr…

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Oscar Wilde
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

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"All art," Oscar Wilde once announced, "is quite useless." Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art - useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radica…

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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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Irmgard Keun,
After Midnight

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. H…

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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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César Aira
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants a…

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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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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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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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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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Federico García Lorca
Cicada!

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNow you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.Spain's most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the b…

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Bohumil Hrabal,
Closely Watched Trains

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Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries - about his virginity, his love for the conduct…

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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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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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