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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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| "The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York TimesWith delicacy of perception and memory humour and pathos Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl Within the span of a few hours the irresistible hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away"
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| "Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Paperback/softback, 2000)" |
| "Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre&39;s &39;madwoman in the attic&39; Bertha Rochester Jean Rhys&39;s Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin ClassicsBorn into the oppressive colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality After their marriage however disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness and her husband into the arms of another novel&39;s heroine This classic study of betrayal a seminal work of postcolonial literature is Jean Rhys&39;s brief beautiful masterpieceJean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing and was &39;discovered&39; by Ford Madox Ford Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time and only modestly successful From 1939 (when Good Morning Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre&39;s Bertha Rochester Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966If you enjoyed Wide Sargasso Sea you might like Charlotte Bronte&39;s Jane Eyre also available in Penguin Classics&39;She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century&39;Michele Roberts The Times"
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| "Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard JacobsIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity dancing cocktail parties or sports cars In a quest for treasure a favourite party occupation a vivid assortment of characters among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous aristocratic Nina Blount hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desiresIf you enjoyed Vile Bodies you might like Waugh's A Handful of Dust also available in Penguin Modern Classics'The high point of the experimental original Waugh'Malcolm Bradbury Sunday Times'This brilliantly funny anxious and resonant novel the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade'Richard Jacobs'It's Britain's Great Gatsby'Stephen Fry director of Vile Bodies film adaptation Bright Young Things"
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| "Essays by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The articles collected in George Orwell&39;s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art This outstanding collection brings together Orwell&39;s longer major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes &39;My Country Right or Left&39; &39;Decline of the English Murder&39; &39;Shooting an Elephant&39; and &39;A Hanging&39; With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defence of English cooking Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose Orwell&39;s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge move and entertain This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Bernard Crick"
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| "Henry and June by Anais Nin (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Drawn from journals this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening covering a single momentous year - 1931-32 in Paris when June fell in love with Henry Miller undermining her own idealized marriage The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts"
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| "Little Birds by Anais Nin (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Anais Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern ClassicsAnais Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus Little Birds is broader in scope encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality Each of the 13 stories captures a moment of pure desire in all its complexity and paradoxical simplicityAnais Nin (1903-77) born in Paris was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist Her first book - a defence of D H Lawrence - was published in the 1930s Her prose poem House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas collected as Winter of Artifice (1939) In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously) During her later years Anais Nin lectured frequently at universities throughout the USA in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and LettersIf you enjoyed Little Birds you might like Nin's Delta of Venus also available in Penguin Modern Classics'One of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century'The New York Times Book Review"
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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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| "Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "F Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern ClassicsBetween the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole who hold court at their villa Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt a film star who is instantly attracted to them but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together As Dick draws closer to Rosemary he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive In this exquisite lyrical novel Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism shattered idealism and broken dreamsF 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 'great American novel' In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre dubbed 'the first American Flapper' and their traumatic marriage and Zelda'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 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a generation 'If you enjoyed Tender is the Night you might like Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's also available in Penguin Classics'One of the most wonderful writers of the twentieth century'Financial Times"
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| "Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Gordon Comstock loathes dull middle-class respectability and worship of money He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop giving him more time to write But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit Only Rosemary ever-faithful Rosemary has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life Through the character of Gordon Comstock Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renouncedEnlivened with vivid autobiographical detail George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics"
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| "Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Professor Timofey Pnin late of Tsarist Russia is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus Battling with American life and language Pnin must face great hazards in this new world the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to masterWry intelligent and moving Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile"
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| "Fictions by Jorge Borges (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern ClassicsJorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature It is here that we find the astonishing accounts of 'Funes the Memorious' the man who can forget nothing; 'Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote' who recreates Miguel de Cervantes's epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon'; the mysterious world of 'Tloen Uqbar Orbis Tertius' which seems to be supplanting our own ; and the 'Library of Babel' which contains every possible book in the whole universe Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate) This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later it remains endlessly intriguingJorge 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 20th centuryIf you enjoyed Fictions you might like Italo Calvino's The Complete Cosmicomics also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Hurley's efforts at retranslating Borges are not anything but heroic His visions are clear elegant crystalline'Ilan Savans The Times Literary Supplement'One of the most memorable artists of our age'Mario Vargas Llosa"
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| "Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination Jean Rhys&39;s Good Morning Midnight includes an introduction by AL Kennedy in Penguin Modern Classics In 1930s Paris where one cheap hotel room is very like another a young woman is teaching herself indifference She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence She tells herself to expect nothing especially not kindness least of all from men Tomorrow she resolves she will dye her hair blonde Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young single women In Good Morning Midnight Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation One of the most honest and distinctive British novelists of the twentieth century Jean Rhys wrote about women with perception and sensitivity in an innovative and often controversial way Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing and was &39;discovered&39; by Ford Madox Ford Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time and only modestly successful From 1939 (when Good Morning Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre&39;s Bertha Rochester Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 If you enjoyed Good Morning Midnight you might like Rhys&39;s Voyage in the Dark also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling cynical and surprisingly moving&39;AL Kennedy"
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| "Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, Carole Angier (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'It was as if a curtain had fallen hiding everything I had ever known' says Anna Morgan eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father Working as a chorus girl Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London But there dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world where all charity has its price Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934 but it could have been written today It is the story of an unhappy love affair a portrait of a hypocritical society and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing and was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time and only modestly successful From 1939 (when Good Morning Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966If you enjoyed Voyage in the Dark you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also available in Penguin Classics 'A wonderful bitter-sweet book written with disarming simplicity'Esther Freud Express'Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling cynical and surprisingly moving'AL Kennedy"
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| "A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Taking its title from TS Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband Tony She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set Brilliantly combining tragedy comedy and savage irony A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Modern Classics'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best'Nicholas Lezard Guardian'One of the most distinguished novels of the century'Frank Kermode'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire and is funny too a marvellous book'John Banville Irish Times"
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| "The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood published in Penguin Modern ClassicsThe more startling for the economy of its prose and plot this novel's story set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori Following the death of a friend poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park Within its golden gates death American-style is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday There Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimee the naive Californian corpse beautician and Mr Joyboy the master of the embalmer's artA dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide The Loved One depicts a world where love reputation and death cost a very great dealEvelyn 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 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender followed in 1955 and 1961If you enjoyed The Loved One you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Modern Classics'The master of black comedy'Sunday Times'One of the funniest and most significant books of the century'Alice Thomas Ellis Daily Telegraph"
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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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| "Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me' Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual to give voice to the experience of an entire generation of black AmericansThis edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestationWith an Introduction by John F Callahan'Brilliant' Saul Bellow"
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| "Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'A modernist masterpiece capturing the fragmented lives it sketches in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s' Christopher Hudson Evening Standard'Dos Passos has invented only one thing an art of story-telling But that is enough to create a universe' Jean-Paul Sartre'The best modern book about New York'DH LawrenceA modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern ClassicsA colourful multi-faceted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s Manhattan Transfer ranks with James Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque cast of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers Dos Passos constructs a brilliant impressionistic portrait of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with motion drama and human tragedy John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago the son of an eminent lawyer After graduating from Harvard he served in the US Army Medical Corps during the First World War and dabbled in journalism before embarking on life as a writer In 1925 he published Manhattan Transfer his first experimental novel in what was to become his peculiar style - a mixture of fact and fiction His began a series of panoramic epics of American life with the USA trilogy using the same technique and tracing through interwoven biographies the story of America from the early twentieth century to the onset of the Great Depression in 1929"
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| "A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Intimidated by her father the rector of Knype Hill Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London She is wearing silk stockings has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment poverty and hunger where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life"
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| "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics This brutal shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup the incredible luxury of a book the ingenious possibilities of a nail a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all Here safety warmth and food are the first objectives Reading it you enter a world of incarceration brutality hard manual labour and freezing cold - and participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of lifeThough twice-decorated for his service at the front during the Second World War Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was arrested in 1945 for making derogatory remarks about Stalin and sent to a series of brutal Soviet labour camps in the Arctic Circle where he remained for eight years Released after Stalin's death he worked as a teacher publishing his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with the approval of Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 to huge success His 1967 novel Cancer Ward as well as his magnum opus The Gulag Archipelago were not as well-received by Soviet authorities and not long after being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 Solzhenitsyn was deported from the USSR In 1994 after twenty years in exile Solzhenitsyn made his long-awaited return to RussiaIf you enjoyed One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich you might also like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We available in Penguin Classics'It is a blow struck for human freedom all over the world and it is gloriously readable'Sunday Times"
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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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| "The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A witty moving philosophical novel Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann DouglasFollowing the explosive energy of On the Road the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac on the bestseller list - comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth Ray Smith and his friend Japhy along with Morley the yodeller head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco with its poetry jam sessions marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum' they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to followJack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist poet artist and part of the Beat Generation His first published novel The Town and the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 that made Kerouac famous Publication of his many other books followed among them The Subterraneans Big Sur and The Dharma Bums Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-sevenIf you enjoyed The Dharma Bums you might like Kerouac's On the Road also available in Penguin Classics'A vivid evocation of part of our time'New York Post'A descriptive excitement unmatched since the days of Thomas Wolfe'The New York Times Book Review"
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| "Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery published in Penguin Modern ClassicsAs he roams the US Mexico Morocco Paris and London Kerouac records in prose of pure poetry life on the road Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacre-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment'Piquant writing the best part of its flavour being the hunt for the big experience a touch of Hemingway and Whitman'Guardian'Full of startling and beautiful things one sees hears and feels'Sunday Times"
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| "The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags I don't want him satisfied' Shocking and controversial when it was first published The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California Their story is one of false hopes thwarted desires and powerlessness yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision"
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| "East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "&39;There is only one book to a man&39; Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden his most ambitious novel Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley California this powerful often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love and the murderous consequences of love&39;s absence"
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| "Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Drifters in search of work George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work achieving success as a novel Broadway play and three acclaimed films"
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| "The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Primo Levi&39;s The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author&39;s experiences in Fascist Italy and later in Auschwitz with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is translated by Raymond Rosenthal with an essay on Primo Levi by Philip Roth A chemist by training Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and &39;inert&39; relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon &39;Iron&39; honours the mountain-climbing resistance hero who put iron in Levi&39;s student soul &39;Cerium&39; recalls the improvised cigarette lighters which saved his life in Auschwitz while &39;Vanadium&39; describes an eerie post-war correspondence with the man who had been his &39;boss&39; there In his essay Philip Roth reproduces a conversation with Primo Levi delving into the process of Levi&39;s authorial technique his sense of identity and distinctiveness and the relationship between science writing and survival Primo Levi (1919-87) an Italian Jew did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz Levi is considered to be one of the century&39;s most compelling voices and The Periodic Table is his most famous book Levi is the author of Moments of Reprieve and If Not Now When? also available in Penguin Modern Classics Philip Roth is the author of Nemesis and The Plot Against America and winner of the both the Pulitzer prize and the Man Booker International prize If you enjoyed The Periodic Table you might like Levi&39;s If Not Now When? also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;A book it is necessary to read&39;Saul Bellow author of Herzog&39;One of the finest writers in post-war Italy&39;The Times"
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| "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South it is the story of John Singer a lonely deaf-mute and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind sympathetic nature The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day a young girl desperate to grow up an angry socialist drunkard a frustrated black doctor each pours their heart out to Singer their silent confidant and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine Moving sensitive and deeply humane The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness the human need for understanding and the search for love"
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| "The First Man by Albert Camus (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960 Although it was not published for over thirty years it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994 The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world The most autobiographical of Camus's novels it gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his workAlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913 The works that established his international reputation include THE PLAGUE THE FALL THE REBEL and THE OUTSIDER Camus died in a road accident in 1960 and is remembered as one of the greatest philsophical novelists of the twentieth century"
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