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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 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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| "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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| "The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley author of Roots and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy author of The Black Atlantic in Penguin Modern ClassicsFrom hustling drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned in a dramatic prison conversion to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience the oppressed American blacks he brought hope and self-respect This autobiography (written with Alex Haley) reveals his quick-witted integrity usually obscured by batteries of frenzied headlines and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialismVilified by his critics as an anti-white demagogue Malcolm X gave a voice to unheard African-Americans bringing them pride hope and fearlessness and remains an inspirational and controversial figureMalcolm X (1925-65) born Malcolm Little in Omaha and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz lost both his parents at a young age Leaving school early he soon became part of Harlem's underworld and in 1946 he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment It was in prison that Malcolm X converted to Islam Paroled in 1952 he became an outspoken defender of Muslim doctrines formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1963 and had received considerable publicity by the time of his assassination in 1965If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Malcolm X you might like Nelson Mandela's No Easy Walk to Freedom also available in Penguin Modern Classics'This extraordinary autobiography is a brilliant painful important book'The New York Times"
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| "Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "&39;Exquisite a feat of fire-breathing imaginative daring&39; Guardian Baldwin&39;s ground-breaking second novel which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David 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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| "The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational allegorical guide to living and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin WaterfieldFirst published in the 1920's The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages Gibran's Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life love marriage death beauty passion eating work and play The spiritual message he imparts of finding divinity through love blends eastern mysticism religious faith and philosophy with simple advice The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement yet it still continues to inspire people around the world today This edition is illustrated with Gibran's famous visionary paintingsKahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a poet philosopher and artist who stands among the most important Arabic language authors of the early twentieth century Born in Lebanon he spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States where for many years he was the leader of a Lebansese writing circle in New York He is the author of numerous volumes including The Garden of the Prophet The Storm The Beloved Reflections on the Path of the Heart The Vision Reflections on the Way of the Soul and Spirit Brides If you enjoyed The Prophet you might like Herman Hesse's Siddhartha also available in Penguin Modern Classics'His work goes on from generation to generation'Daily Mail'To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception to become aware of a more intense level of being'Independent"
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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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| "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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| "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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| "All My Sons by Arthur Miller (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "In Joe and Kate Keller&39;s family garden an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm But his loss is not the only part of the family&39;s past they can&39;t put behind them Not everybody&39;s forgotten the court case that put Joe&39;s partner in jail or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky"
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| "A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tennessee Williams&39;s A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller &39;I have always depended on the kindness of strangers&39; Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded boisterous corner of New Orleans her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella&39;s crude brutish husband Stanley Kowalski Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche&39;s fragile sense of identity to crumble threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness Tennessee Williams&39;s steamy and shocking landmark drama recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus Mississippi When his father a travelling salesman moved with his family to St Louis some years later both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company He stayed there for two years spending the evenings writing He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955 Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944) The Rose Tattoo (1951) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) The Night of the Iguana (1961) and Small Craft Warnings (1972) If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire you might like The Glass Menagerie also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny&39; Francis Ford Coppola director of The Godfather &39;One of the greatest American plays&39; Observer"
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| "The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttIn these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other She 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 greatest 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 'An amazing writer if you haven't read any of her short stories you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman'Her stories are stunning timeless - as relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published 'The Lottery' is so much an icon in the history of the American short story that one could argue it has moved from the canon of American twentieth-century fiction directly into the American psyche our collective unconscious' A M Homes"
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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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| "The Odyssey by Homer (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "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 The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks battles monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that even there await him"
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| "The Great Gatsby (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald&39;s deathJay Gatsby is the man who has everything Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking dancing and debating his mysterious character For Gatsby - young handsome fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd watching and waiting though no one knows what for Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel"
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| "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "From the master of spy thrillers John le Carre&39;s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd author of Any Human HeartAlex Leamas is tired It&39;s the 1960s he&39;s been out in the cold for years spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters He has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended Leamas&39;s mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done In le Carre&39;s breakthrough work of 1963 the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining &39;A portrait of a man who has lived by lies and subterfuge for so long he&39;s forgotten how to tell the truth&39; Time&39;He can communicate emotion from sweating fear to despairing love with terse and compassionate conviction Above all he can tell a tale&39; Sunday Times"
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| "A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover" |
| "Part of Penguin&39;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 After reading Christmas Carol the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but along with Dickens other Christmas writings it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit and about the season as a time for celebration charity and memory"
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| "The Machine Stops" |
| "'You talk as if a god had made the Machine cried the other I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy Men made it do not forget that'EM Forster is best known for his exquisite novels but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical In 'The Machine Stops' humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground enmeshed in automated comforts and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossibleThis book contains The Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus"
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| "The Illustrated Dracula" |
| "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 designWhen Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client Soon afterwards various bizarre incidents unfold in England an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival In Dracula Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire"
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| "A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat' explanatory notes pages from the original typescript interviews articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story 'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence He and his gang of friends rob kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror a black comedy an exploration of choice A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat' explanatory notes pages from the original typescript interviews articles and reviews shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei After the success of his Malayan Trilogy he became a full-time writer in 1959 His books have been published all over the world and they include The Complete Enderby Nothing Like the Sun Napoleon Symphony Tremor of Intent Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation His publications include a biography The Real Life of Anthony Burgess which won the Portico Prize in 2006 He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess"
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| "The Outsider by Albert Camus (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'My mother died today Or maybe yesterday I don't know'In The Outsider (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms Meursault his anti-hero will not lie When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law Yet he is as much a victim as a criminalAlbert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd and revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world Sandra Smith's translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'EtrangerAlbert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist and playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) The Plague (1947) The Just (1949) The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and his last novel The First Man unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 and was published in English soon after by Hamish HamiltonSandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature and Language She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize"
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