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| "Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered His last poem Pale Fire is put into a book together with a preface a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor Charles Kinbote Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver' Kinbote is haughty inquisitive intolerant but is he also mad bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should Nabokov's darkly witty richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship and a glorious literary conundrum"
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| "The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice cramped slum housing dangerous mining conditions squalor hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty fury and great humanity It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels and remains a powerful portrait of poverty injustice and class divisions in BritainPublished with an introduction by Richard Hoggart in Penguin Modern Classics'It is easy to see why the book created and still creates so sharp an impact exceptional immediacy freshness and vigour opinionated and bold Above all it is a study of poverty and behind that of the strength of class-divisions'Richard Hoggart"
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| "Burmese Days by George Orwell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma George Orwell&39;s first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where &39;after all natives were natives - interesting no doubt but finally an inferior people&39; When Flory a white timber merchant befriends Indian Dr Veraswami he defies this orthodoxy The doctor is in danger U Po Kyin a corrupt magistrate is plotting his downfall The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club and Flory can help Flory&39;s life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris who offers an escape from loneliness and the &39;lie&39; of colonial life George Orwell&39;s first novel inspired by his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma Burmese Days includes a new introduction by Emma Larkin in Penguin Modern Classics"
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| "Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Inspired by Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' WIDE SARGASSO SEA is set in 1830's Jamaica Born into an oppressive colonialist society white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensualityAfter 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 This classic study of betrayal is Jean Rhys' brief beautiful masterpiece"
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| "Coming Up for Air by George Orwell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizonGeorge Bowling forty-five mortgaged married with children is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life He fears modern times - since in 1939 the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues soldiers secret police and tyranny So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquillity But his return journey to Lower Binfield may bring only a more complete disillusionment 'Very funny as well as invigoratingly realistic Nineteen Eighty-Four is here in embryo So is Animal Farm not many novels carry the seeds of two classics as well as being richly readable themselves'John Carey Sunday Times"
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| "How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining community in rural South Wales Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table at Chapel and around the pit-head Looking back on the hardships of his early life where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939 How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century Poetic and nostalgic it is an elegy to a lost worldRichard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983) better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn claimed to have been born in St David's Pembrokeshire Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon Middlesex His famous first novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford None But the Lonely Heart his second novel was published in 1943 and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore As well as novels including Green Green My Valley Now (1975) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982) Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays Poison Pen and NooseIf you enjoyed How Green Was My Valley you might like Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Vivid eloquent poetical glowing with an inner flame of emotion'The Times Literary Supplement"
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| "Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The electrifying first novel from James Baldwin whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro'I had to deal with what hurt me most I had to deal with my father'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father Gabriel at the Temple of the Fire Baptized where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air' But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family Johnny vows that for him things will be different This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind 'A beautiful enduring spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan'With vivid imagery with lavish attention to details Mr Baldwin has told his feverish story' The New York Times"
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| "The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims Scarred by failure Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition and he is pitched on to a bold course where all scruples are put aside Steinbeck's searing examination of the evil influences of money immorality greed and ambition on America drew acclaim from the Nobel Committee who hailed him as an 'independent expounder of the truth''Returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work so powerful'Saul Bellow author of Herzog"
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| "Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "&39;Exquisite a feat of fire-breathing imaginative daring&39; GuardianBaldwin&39;s ground-breaking second novel which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid a young American in 1950s Paris is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain But when he meets Giovanni a handsome Italian barman the two men are drawn into an intense affair After three months David&39;s fiancée returns and denying his true nature he rejects Giovanni for a &39;safe&39; future as a married man His decision eventually brings tragedy Filled with passion regret and longing this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals yet for him the issues of race sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined &39;Excruciating beauty&39; San Francisco Chronicle&39;Audacious remarkable elegant and courageous&39; Caryl Phillips"
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| "Another Country by James Baldwin (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "'Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble There is a whirlwind loose in the land' Sunday TimesWhen Another Country appeared in 1962 it caused a literary sensation James Baldwin's masterly story of desire hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York Self-destructive bad and brilliant he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat music and sex where desperate and dangerous characters betray love and test each other to the limit'In Another Country Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century' Colm Toibin'An almost unbearable tumultuous blood-pounding experience' Washington Post'Brilliantly and fiercely told' The New York Times"
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| "The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Constance Farrington with an introduction by Jean-Paul SartreWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961 Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since analysing the role of class race national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom With power and anger Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism It was Fanon himself a psychotherapist who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease who showed how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture and who showed the way ahead through revolutionary violence to socialism Many of the great calls to arms from the era of decolonization are now of purely historical interest yet this passionate analysis of the relations between the great powers and the 'Third World' is just as illuminating about the world we live in todayFrantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born French author essayist psychoanalyst and revolutionary Fanon was a supporter of the Algerian struggle for independence from French rule and became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decadesIf you enjoyed The Wretched of the Earth you might like Edward Said's Orientalism also available in Penguin Modern Classics'In clear language in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage he showed us the internal theatre of racism'Independent"
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| "Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi BandeleOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire But when he accidentally kills a clansman things begin to fall apart Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy First published in 1958 Chinua Achebe's stark coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at EaseChinua Achebe (b 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria and graduated from University College Ibadan The author of more than twenty books - novels short stories essays and collections of poetry - Achebe received numerous honours from around the world including honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement the Nigerian National Merit Award In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction He died in 2013If you enjoyed Things Fall Apart you might like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness also available in Penguin Classics'A great book that bespeaks a great brave kind human spirit'John Updike'His courage and generosity are made manifest in the work'Toni Morrison'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down'Nelson Mandela"
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| "Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics'As though walking through a deep dream I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest'A memoir of astonishing power savagery and ashen lyricism Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Junger's experience of combat on the front line - leading raiding parties defending trenches against murderous British incursions and simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart One of the greatest books to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War it illuminates like no other book not only the horrors but also the fascination of a war that made men keep fighting for four long yearsErnst Junger (1895-1998) the son of a wealthy chemist ran away from home to join the Foreign Legion His father dragged him back but he returned to military service when he joined the German army on the outbreak of the First World War Storm of Steel (Stahlgewittern) was Junger's first book published in 1920 Greatly admired by the Nazis Junger remained at a distance from the regime with books such as his allegorical work On the Marble Cliffs (1939) functioning as a covert criticism of Nazi ideology and methodsIf you enjoyed Storm of Steel you might like Edward Blunden's Undertones of War also available in Penguin Modern Classics'To read this extraordinary book is to gain a unique insight into the compelling nature of organized industrialized violence'Niall Ferguson author of War of the World'Hofmann's interpretation is superb' The Times'Unique in the literature of this or any other war is its brilliantly vivid conjuration of the immediacy and intensity of battle' Telegraph'Storm of Steel is what so many books claim to be but are not a classic account of war' Evening Standard"
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| "The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald F Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in Penguin Modern ClassicsAnthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour A brilliant and magnetic couple they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young rich alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth But as money becomes tight their marriage becomes impossible And with their inheritance still distant Anthony and Gloria must face reality; they may be beautiful - but they are also damnedF 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 The Beautiful and the Damned you might like John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer also available in Penguin Classics'A prose that has the tough delicacy of a garnet'New York Review of Books"
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| "Rabbit, Run by John Updike (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series John Updike's Rabbit Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin Modern ClassicsIt's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom one time high school sports superstar is going nowhere At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile alcoholic wife a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses a young son and a futile job With no way to fix things he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life Because as he knows only too well 'after you've been first-rate at something no matter what it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'John Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington Pennsylvania He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year at Oxford England at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at The New Yorker Updike was the author of twenty-one novels as well as numerous collections of short stories poems and criticism and is one of only three authors to win more than one Pulitzer Prize His most famous works are the Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom series all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics Rabbit Run (1960) Rabbit Redux (1971) Rabbit is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990)If you enjoyed Rabbit Run you might like Don DeLillo's Americana also available in Penguin Modern Classics'It is sexy in bad taste violent and basically cynical And good luck to it'Angus Wilson Observer 'That special polish that brilliance; Updike is among the best'Malcolm Bradbury'Brilliant and poignant By his compassion clarity of insight and crystal-bright rose Updike makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own'Washington Post"
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| "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface never-before published illustrations by the author and an introduction by Robert FaggenTyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine unopposed by her patients who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an exuberant ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madnessIf you enjoyed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest you might like Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A glittering parable of good and evil'The New York Times Book Review'A roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the Rulers who enforce them'Time'If you haven't already read this book do so If you have read it again'Scotsman"
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| "Sunset Song by Lewis Gibbon (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland torn between her passion for the land duty to her family and her love of books When her mother broken by repeated childbirths takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own Soon she is alone and for the first time can choose how to spend her life But as the First World War begins everything changes and the young men leave Scotland for battle The first in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scot's Quair Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular and innovatively blends Scots and English in an intense description of Scottish life in the early twentieth century"
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| "The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Her first major literary success Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition power gold and love published in Penguin Modern ClassicsArchitect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with Defying the conventions of the world around him he embraces a battle over two decades against a double-dealing crew of rivals who will stop at nothing to bring him down These include perhaps most troublesome of all the ambitious Dominique Francon who may just prove to be Roarke's equal This epic story of money power and a man's struggle to succeed on his own terms is a paean to individualism and humanity's creative potential First published in 1943 The Fountainhead introduced millions to Rand's philosophy of Objectivism an uncompromising defence of self-interest as the engine of progress and a jubilant celebration of man's creative potentialAyn Rand (1905-1982) born Alisa Rosenbaum in St Petersburg Russia emigrated to America with her family in January 1926 never to return to her native land Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller Still occasionally working as a screenwriter Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957 Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual If you enjoued The Fountainhead you might like Rand's Atlas Shrugged also available in Penguin Modern Classics'In The Fountainhead power greed life's grandeur flow hot and red in thrilling descriptions'London Review of Books'Ayn Rand is a writer of great power she writes brilliantly beautifully bitterly' The New York Times"
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| "Call it Sleep by Henry Roth (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land' David is hated by his father - an angry violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother An innovative multi-lingual novel Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America"
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| "Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the world' published in Penguin Modern ClassicsOpening with the enigmatic question 'Who is John Galt?' Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the 'men of talent' - the great innovators producers and creators - have mysteriously disappeared With the US economy now faltering businesswoman Dagny Taggart is struggling to get the transcontinental railroad up and running For her John Galt is the enemy but as she will learn nothing in this situation is quite as it seems Hugely influential and grand in scope this story of a man who stopped the motor of the world expounds Rand's controversial philosophy of Objectivism which champions competition creativity and human greatness Ayn Rand (1905-82) born Alisa Rosenbaum in St Petersburg Russia emigrated to America with her family in January 1926 never to return to her native land Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller Still occasionally working as a screenwriter Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957 Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual If you enjoyed Atlas Shrugged you might like Rand's The Fountainhead also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A writer of great power she writes brilliantly beautifully bitterly'The New York Times'Atlas Shrugged is a celebration of life and happiness'Alan Greenspan"
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| "The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Patrick Swayze Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise SE Hinton's The Outsiders is a young adult novel of enduring power This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult author of My Sister's KeeperThe Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets Ponyboy a fourteen-year-old brawler chainsmoker and dreamer is a fiercely loyal greaser But a single murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when SE Hinton was only seventeen laying bare the hopes and terrors between teenage bravado in a world of drive-ins drag races and switchblades It confronted America with a new breed of anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide and became a bestselling classic of youthful rebellion Susan Eloise Hinton (b 1950) wrote her first book The Outsiders in 1967 when she was seventeen years old Hinton is also the author of That Was When This Is Now (1971) adapted into a film starring Emilio Estevez and Morgan Freeman; Rumble Fish (1975) also adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola starring Mickey Rourke Nicholas Cage and Dennis Hopper; Tex (1979); Taming the Star Runner (1988) and many others Hinton lives in OklahomaIf you enjoyed The Outsiders you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Gritty emotional and very authentic'Jodi Picoult'The Outsiders is a teenage epic'Francis Ford Coppola"
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| "Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "A poignant meditation on the nature of desire and the enduring power of love Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern ClassicsFlorentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza but finds his love tragically rejected Instead Fermina marriesdistinguished doctor Juvenal Urbino while Florentino can only wait silently for her He can never forget his first and only true love Then fifty-one years nine months and four days later Fermina's husband dies unexpectedly At last Florentino has another chance to declare his feelings and discover if a passion that has endured for half a century will remain unrequited in a rich fantastical and humane celebration of love in all its many formsGabriel Garcia Marquez (b 1928) was born in Aracataca Colombia He is the author of several novels including Leaf Storm (1955) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982If you enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera you might like Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude also available in Penguin Modern Classics'The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer'Daily Telegraph'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women among Marquez's best fiction'The Times'The greatest luxury is the eerie entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century's most evocative writers' Anne Tyler author of The Accidental Tourist"
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| "On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Five decades after it was first published Jack Kerouac'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 MortensenThis edition is transcribed from the original manuscript hundreds of typed pages taped together by Kerouac to form a 'scroll' published word for word as it was originally composedSal 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'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'The most beautifully executed the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as beat' The New York Times"
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| "Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution Siddhartha includes a new introduction by bestselling author Paulo Coehlo in Penguin ClassicsSiddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy this strangely simple tale written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922 Set in India Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan and of wealth and fame to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciationHermann Hesse (1877-1962) suffered from depression endured criticism for his pacifist views and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J B Lang; a process which resulted in Demian (1919) a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels including Siddhartha (1922) Steppenwolf (1927) Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) and his magnum opus The Glass Bead Game (1943) Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and has become one of the most widely read authors in the world Especially renowned for The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes he has sold more than 100 million books worldwide and has been translated into 66 languagesIf you enjoyed Siddhartha you might like Hesse's Steppenwolf also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Nightmarish and fiercely funny William Burroughs' virtuoso taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone a surreal orgiastic wasteland of drugs depravity political plots paranoia sadistic medical experiments and endless gnawing addiction One of the most shocking novels ever written Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text alternate drafts and outtakes from the original'A masterpiece A cry from hell a brutal terrifying and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce exact satire' Newsweek 'Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget' J G Ballard"
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| "The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "A terrifying surreal space-age odyssey The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space where nothing is true and everything is permitted to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machinesEdited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris this new edition clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history of The Soft Machine's writing and rewriting demolishing the myths of Burroughs' chance-based writing methods and demonstrating for a new generation the significance of his greatest experiment"
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| "Nineteen Eighty-Four: Anniversary Edition by George Orwell (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "First published in 1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readersWinston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London chief city of Airstrip One Big Brother stares out from every poster the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal When Winston finds love with Julia he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101"
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| "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays Orwell looks at among others the joys of spring (even in London) the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in Burma"
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| "The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt author of The Goldfinch and The Secret History Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House Dr Montague an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora his lovely assistant; Luke the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor a friendless fragile young woman with a dark past As they begin to cope with horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding they cannot possibly know what lies ahead For Hill House is gathering its powers - and soon it will choose one of them to make its own Adapted into a film The Haunting starring Liam Neeson Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror Shirley Jackson's was born in California in 1916 When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948 readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in the same year and was followed by five more Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle widely seen as her masterpiece Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48 If you enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House you might like Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle also available in Penguin Modern Classics 'An amazing writer If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman 'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' Stephen King 'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable' A M Homes 'Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic inimitable writerswhose work exerts an enduring spell' Joyce Carol Oates"
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| "We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Shirley Jackson's masterpiece the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat tomboy teenager beloved sister - and possible lunatic 'Her greatest book at once whimsical and harrowing a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink the deeper we want to go' Donna Tartt author of The GoldfinchLiving in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone And when Cousin Charles arrives armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into the safe Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the remaining family This Penguin edition includes an afterword by the acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates All Shirley Jackson's other novels plus The Lottery and Other Stories are available in Penguin Modern ClassicsShirley Jackson was born in California in 1916 When her short story The Lotterywas first published in The New Yorker in 1948 readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in the same year and was followed by five more Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The SundialThe Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle widely seen as her masterpiece In addition to her dark brilliant novels she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman Shirley Jackson died in her sleep in 1965 at the age of 48'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable She is a true master' A M Homes'A masterpiece of Gothic suspense' Joyce Carol Oates'If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman"
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