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| "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "THE HUGELY INFLUENTIAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom Cass R Sunstein and Richard H Thaler winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics Nudge is the book that has changed the way we think about decision-makingNudge is about choices - how we make them and how we can make better ones Every day we make decisions about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself Unfortunately we often choose poorly We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions And as Thaler and Sunstein show no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way By knowing how people think we can make it easier for them to choose what is best for them their families and society Using dozens of eye-opening examples and original research the authors demonstrate how to nudge us in the right directions without restricting our freedom of choice'How often do you read a book that is both important and amusing both practical and deep? A must-read for anyone who wants to see both our minds and our society working better' Daniel Kahneman author of Thinking Fast and Slow'I love this book It is one of the few books I've read recently that fundamentally changes the way I think about the world' Steven D Levitt co-author of Freakonomics"
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| "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane she is determined to dislike him more than ever In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendshipsgossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In a house haunted by memories the past is everywhere As darkness falls a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange grim house Wuthering Heights It is a place he will never forget There he will come to learn the story of Cathy how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present How love can transgress authority convention even death"
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| "Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo Meanwhile Elinor always sensitive to social convention is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment even from those closest to her Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Charlotte Bronte's first published novel Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847 Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian society"
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| "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and if his name has been forgotten today it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance misanthropy immorality or more succinctly wickedness but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history to the fleeting realm of scent ''An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity Clever stylish absorbing and well worth reading' Literary Review'A meditation on the nature of death desire and decay a remarkable debut' Peter Ackroyd The New York Times Book Review'Unlike anything else one has read A phenomenon Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume which will remain unique in contemporary literature' Figaro'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' Daily Telegraph'Witty stylish and ferociously absorbing' ObserverPatrick Suskind was born near Munich in 1949 He studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich His first play The Double Bass was written in 1980 and became an international success His first novel Perfume became an internationally acclaimed bestseller He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr Summer's Story and a coauthor of the enormously successful German television series Kir Royal Patrick Suskind lives and writes in Munich"
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| "Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Colm Toibin&39;s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love loss and one woman&39;s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey as for so many young Irish girls opportunities are scarce So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York Eilis knows she must go leaving behind her family and her home for the first time Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed She is far from home - and homesick And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship and perhaps something more Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love &39;With this elating and humane novel Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork&39; Sunday Times &39;Unforgettable&39; Spectator &39;The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time&39; Zoë Heller Guardian Books of the Year &39;Magnificent&39; Sunday Telegraph &39;A work of such skill understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life&39; Ali Smith TLS Books of the Year When you are finished why not read the companion novel Nora Webster"
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| "First Light by Geoffrey Wellum (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF Desperate to get in the air he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron Thrust into combat almost immediately Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return"
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| "Why Look at Animals? by John Berger (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life art and how we see the world around us Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacleThroughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
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| "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion It is here that people feel most themselves inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels In this ground-breaking book world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business whether it's a child bored in class a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving Through stories of people - like Vidal Sassoon Ariana Huffington and Matt Groening - who have recognized their unique talents and been able to make a successful living doing what they love Robinson argues that age and occupation are no barrier and explains how it is possible for each one of us to reach our elementWith a wry sense of humour Ken Robinson inspires us above all to reconnect with our true self - it could just change everything"
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| "I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "They killed Number One in Malaysia Number Two in England And Number Three in Kenya John Smith is not your average teenager He regularly moves from small town to small town He changes his name and identity He does not put down roots He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him But you can&39;t run forever So when he stops in Paradise Ohio John decides to try and settle down To fit in And for the first time he makes some real friends People he cares about - and who care about him Never in John&39;s short life has there been space for friendship or even love But it&39;s just a matter of time before John&39;s secret is revealed He was once one of nine Three of them have been killed John is Number Four He knows that he is next Praise for Pittacus Lore &39;Tense exciting full of energy&39; Observer &39;Relentlessly readable&39; The Times &39;Set to eclipse Harry Potter and moody vampires Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet&39; Big Issue &39;Tense keeps you wondering&39; Sunday Times Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games - I Am Number Four is the first book in Pittacus Lore&39;s Lorien Legacies series and is now a major Disney film"
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| "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works In this revelatory book Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world including There's no such thing as a 'free' marketGlobalization isn't making the world richerWe don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internetPoor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich onesHigher paid managers don't produce better results We don't have to accept things as they are any longer Ha-Joon Chang is here to show us there's a better way 'Lively accessible and provocative read this book' Sunday Times 'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' Observer 'The new kid on the economics block Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans' Independent on Sunday 'Lucid audacious increasingly influential will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance' Guardian 'Important persuasive an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization' Financial Times 'A must-read incisive and entertaining' New Statesman Books of the Year Ha-Joon Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder Development Strategy in Historical Perspective which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and Bad Samaritans Rich Nations Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system"
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| "Hothouse Flower by Lucinda Riley (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "FROM THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OLIVE TREE AND THE SHADOW SISTERA heart-rending page turner which sweeps from war-torn Europe to Thailand and back again As a child Julia Forrester would linger in the hothouse of Wharton Park estate where exotic flowers tended by her grandfather blossomed and faded with the seasonsNow recovering from a family tragedy she once more seeks comfort at Wharton Park newly inherited by Kit Crawford a charismatic man with a sad story of his own But when a years-old diary is found during renovation work the pair turn to Julia's grandmother to hear the truth about the love affair that turned Wharton Park's fortunes sour And so Julia is plunged back in time to the world of Olivia and Harry Crawford a young couple torn apart by the Second World War - and whose fragile marriage is destined to affect the happiness of generations to come including Julia's own Outside the UK this book is published under the title The Orchid House'Atmospheric heart-rending and multi-layered' Grazia"
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| "In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "One of the greatest most entertaining reading experiences in any language Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol 1 The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin ClassicsThe Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine It contains the separate short novel A Love of Swann's a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical sceptical confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human conditionSince the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C K Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged comic and lucid Proust As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end it is this Penguin Classics edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generationMarcel Proust (1871-1922) is generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris giving himself over entirely to writing his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu)If you enjoyed In Search Of Lost Time you might like James Joyce's Ulysses also available in Penguin Modern Classics'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world'Sunday Telegraph"
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| "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern ClassicsRomantic heroic comic and tragic unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction Her glamour unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set' introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play and later a film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie SmithMuriel Spark (1918 - 2006) wrote poetry stories and biographies as well as a remarkable series of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) which received the James Tait Black Prize and The Public Image (1968) and Loitering with Intent (1981) both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize Spark was awarded the TS Eliot Award for poetry in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize for literature in 1997 If you enjoyed The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie you might like Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A sublimely funny book it is a book to be read by all unforgettable and universal'Candia McWilliam author of Debatable Land"
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| "Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback" |
| "James Joyce&39;s Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown Joyce&39;s first major work written when he was only twenty-five brought his city to the world for the first time His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life portraying ordinary often defeated lives with unflinching realism From &39;The Sisters&39; a vivid portrait of childhood faith and guilt to &39;Araby&39; a timeless evocation of the inexplicable yearnings of adolescence to &39;The Dead&39; in which Gabriel Conroy is gradually brought to a painful epiphany regarding the nature of his existence Joyce draws a realistic and memorable cast of Dubliners together in an powerful exploration of overarching themes Writing of social decline sexual desire and exploitation corruption and personal failure he creates a brilliantly compelling unique vision of the world and of human experience James Joyce (1882-1941) the eldest of ten children was born in Dublin but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works Ulysses and Finnegans Wake He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter&39;s mental illness If you enjoyed Dubliners you might like Joyce&39;s Ulysses also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;Joyce redeems his Dubliners assures their identity and makes their social existence appear permanent and immortal like the streets they walk&39; Tom Paulin &39;Joyce&39;s early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance&39; Sunday Times"
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| "Brideshead Revisited : The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Paperback" |
| "Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh&39;s stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh&39;s novels Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War It tells the story of Charles Ryder&39;s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family in particular his remote sister Julia Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead second son of Arthur Waugh publisher and literary critic and brother of Alec Waugh the popular novelist In 1928 he published his first work a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his first novel Decline and Fall which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930) A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938) In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of &39;The Sword of Honour&39; trilogy and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender followed in 1955 and 1961 If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited you might like Waugh&39;s Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Classics &39;Lush and evocative Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit&39; The Times"
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| "Lolita (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century Vladimir Nabokov&39;s Lolita is a strange troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by Craig RainePoet and pervert Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her first carnally and then artistically out of love &39;to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets&39; Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert&39;s seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov&39;s dizzying masterpiece which is suffused with a savage humour and rich elaborate verbal textures Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe&39;Lolita is comedy subversive yet divine You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair ravished overcome nodding scandalized assent&39;Martin Amis Observer"
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| "The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts" |
| "Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition paranoia and malice culminating in a violent climax is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusationsA depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America"
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| "In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The chilling true crime &39;non-fiction novel&39; that made Truman Capote&39;s name In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern ClassicsControversial and compelling In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer his wife and both their children Truman Capote&39;s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock who vividly drawn by Capote are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories novels and novellas travel writing profiles reportage memoirs plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965) Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986) all of which are published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIf you enjoyed In Cold Blood you might like Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs&39; And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks also available in Penguin Modern Classics&39;It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers Capote produces a stark image of the deep doubleness of American life a remarkable book&39;Spectator"
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| "A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback" |
| "Anthony Burgess&39;s nightmare vision of a society overrun by nihilistic violence and governed by a menacing totalitarian state A Clockwork Orange includes an introduction by Blake Morrison in Penguin Modern Classics Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn&39;t just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape drugs and Beethoven&39;s ninth He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future hunting for terrible thrills But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky and the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day The basis for Stanley Kubrick&39;s notorious 1971 film A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will In his introduction Blake Morrison situates A Clockwork Orange within the context of Anthony Burgess&39;s many other works explores the author&39;s unhappiness with the Stanley Kubrick film version analyses the composition of the Nadsat argot spoken by Alex and his droogs and examines the influences on Burgess&39;s unique eternally original style Anthony Burgess (1917-93) was born in Manchester in 1917 From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 1959 Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993 His many works include The Complete Enderby Tremor of Intent The Kingdom of the Wicked and A Clockwork Orange If you enjoyed A Clockwork Orange you might like Ken Kesey&39;s One Flew Over the Cuckoo&39;s Nest also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language a very funny book&39; William S Burroughs"
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| "The Great Gatsby (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (RomeoJuliet Moulin Rouge!) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan The Great Gatsby is F Scott Fitzgerald&39;s brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Tony TannerYoung handsome and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion where the party never seems to end he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby&39;s origins and desires Beneath the shimmering surface of his life Gatsby is hiding a secret a silent longing that can never be fulfilled And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravelIn The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place for - in chronicling Gatsby&39;s tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and realityLike Jay Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the &39;great American novel&39; In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre dubbed &39;the first American Flapper&39; and their traumatic marriage and Zelda&39;s gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing As well as many short stories Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise The Great Gatsby The Beautiful and the Damned Tender is the Night and incomplete at the time of his death The Last Tycoon After his death The New York Times said of him that &39;in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" &39;&39;A classic perhaps the supreme American novel&39; John Carey Sunday Times Books of the Century"
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| "On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Five decades after it was first published Jack Kerouac&39;s seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control Brighton Rock) Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights) Kristen Stewart (Twilight) Kirsten Dunst Amy Adams and Viggo MortensenSal Paradise (Sam Riley) a young innocent joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) a traveller and mystic the living epitome of Beat on a breathless exuberant ride back and forth across the United States Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink sex drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom a test of the limits of the American dream A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography Jack Kerouac&39;s exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance poignancy and autobiographical passion One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement&39;The most beautifully executed the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat"&39; The New York Times&39;Pop writing at its best It changed the way I saw the world making me yearn for fresh experience&39;Hanif Kureishi Independent on Sunday&39;On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines and also sent countless kids on the road&39;William Burroughs"
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| "Animal Farm by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "&39;All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others&39; When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality But gradually a cunning ruthless élite among them masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball starts to take control Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another &39;It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine&39; wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943 but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin at that time Britain&39;s ally led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher Orwell&39;s simple tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury"
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| "Ulysses by James Joyce (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin the 16th June 1904 and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly Ulysses is a monument to the human condition It has survived censorship controversy and legal action and even been deemed blasphemous but remains an undisputed modernist classic ceaselessly inventive garrulous funny sorrowful vulgar lyrical and ultimately redemptive It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man''The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape' T S Eliot'Intoxicating a towering work in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare' Guardian"
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| "A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker PercyNever published during his lifetime John Kennedy Toole's masterful comic novel takes its title as well asfrom Jonathan Swift A monument to sloth rant and contempt a behemoth of fat flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J Reilly of New Orleans noble crusader against a world of dunces The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged Ignatius ignores them heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice modernity and ignorance But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him Ignatius must get a job Undaunted he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it withJohn Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) was born in New Orleans He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed at least in part by his failure to place the book he committed suicide in 1969 It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved winning the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible written when he was only sixteen was eventually published as wellIf you enjoyed A Confederacy of Dunces you might like Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A pungent work of slapstick satire and intellectual incongruities it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times"
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| "Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "&39;Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it&39; Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War chronicled in Homage to Catalonia Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity passion and clarity describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona the courage of ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside the terror and confusion of the front his near-fatal bullet wound and the vicious treachery of his supposed allies A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War George Orwell&39;s Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics"
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| "To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A pioneering work of modernist fiction using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol with an introduction and notes by Hermione LeeTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday and a meditation on marriage on parenthood and childhood on grief tyranny and bitterness For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged With a psychologically introspective mode the use of memory reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate poetic essence and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group' an informal collective of artists and writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism and biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essayIf you enjoyed To the Lighthouse you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also available in Penguin Classics'Bears endless re-reading the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb and flow'Rachel Billington"
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| "Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "George Orwell&39;s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society &39;You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well here are the dogs and you have reached them&39; Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties it documents his &39;first contact with poverty&39; Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort working as a dishwasher in Paris&39;s vile &39;Hôtel X&39; surviving on scraps and cigarette butts living alongside tramps a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain Exposing a shocking previously-hidden world to his readers Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so found his voice as a writer"
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| "Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A Yates and James E Irby with an introduction by James E Irby and a preface by Andre MauroisJorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes This collection brings together many of his stories including the celebrated 'Library of Babel' whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life and 'Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote' in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote In later life dogged by increasing blindness Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time identity and imagination Playful and disturbing scholarly and seductive his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voiceJorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires Argentina A poet critic and short story writer he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett) He has a reasonable claim along with Kafka and Joyce to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth centuryIf you enjoyed Labyrinths you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories also available in Penguin Modern Classics'His is the literature of eternity'Peter Ackroyd The Times'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'James Woodall Guardian'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize'Economist"
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