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| "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion It is here that people feel most themselves inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels In this ground-breaking book world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business whether it's a child bored in class a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving Through stories of people - like Vidal Sassoon Ariana Huffington and Matt Groening - who have recognized their unique talents and been able to make a successful living doing what they love Robinson argues that age and occupation are no barrier and explains how it is possible for each one of us to reach our elementWith a wry sense of humour Ken Robinson inspires us above all to reconnect with our true self - it could just change everything"
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| "Remember Me by Lesley Pearse (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Based on a true story Remember Me brings Mary Broad vividly to life in this moving story of a woman triumphing against overwhelming odds She made one mistake and now she'll never see home again Mary a Cornish mariner's daughter makes the biggest mistake of her short life when she steals a silk hat Convicted and sentenced to be transported to Australia she endures horrific conditions aboard ship before landing in a brutal and barbaric country It will take all her courage just to survive But Mary is also determined to make something of herself in this rugged man's world And she dreams that one day she will find a way of crossing the cruel seas that lie between her and home Santa Montefiore and Penny Vincenzi fans will swiftly fall for Lesley Pearse's mesmerising novels - you'll want to read them again and again 'With characters it is impossible not to care about this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's Weekly'Utterly riveting brilliant' Closer"
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| "Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion by Alain de Botton (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists looks at the God debate with fresh eyesAll of us whether religious agnostic or atheist are searching for meaning And in this wise and life-affirming book non-believer Alain de Botton both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should liveAnd he suggests that non-believers can learn and steal from themPicking and choosing from the thousands of years of advice assembled by the world's great religions Alain de Botton presents a range of fascinating ideas and practical insights on art community love friendship work life and death He shows how they can be of use to us all irrespective of whether we do or don't believeIn the Sunday Times top-ten bestseller Religion for Atheists Alain de Botton takes us one step further than Dawkins and Hitchens have ventured and into a world of ideas beyond the God debate'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson The Times'A beautiful inspiring book offering a glimpse of a more enlightened path' Sunday Telegraph'Packed with tantalizing goads to thought and playful prompts to action' Independent'Smart stimulating sensitive A timely and perceptive appreciation of how much wisdom is embodied in religious traditions and how we godless moderns might learn from it' Financial Times'There isn't a page in this book that doesn't contain a striking idea or a stimulating parallel' Mail on Sunday'Packed with tantalizing goads to thought and playful prompts to action' Independent"
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| "On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writer John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority Mill proposes a freedom to think unite and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms as long as we cause no harm to others GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
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| "The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K FAIRBANK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English It challenges myths and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian'Powerful and compelling Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world particularly as China and the US rethink their roles in Asia Christopher Goscha's book is a brilliant account of that country's history' - Rana Mitter'A vigorous eye-opening account of a country of great importance to the world past and future' - Kirkus ReviewsOver the centuries the Vietnamese have beenboth colonizers themselves and the victims of colonization by others Their country expanded shrunk split and sometimes disappeared often under circumstances far beyond their control Despite these often overwhelming pressures Vietnam has survived as one of Asia's most striking and complex culturesAs more and more visitors come to this extraordinary country there has been for some years a need for a major history - a book which allows the outsider to understand the many layers left by earlier emperors rebels priests and colonizers Christopher Goscha's new work amply fills this role Drawing on a lifetime of thinking about Indo-China he has created a narrative which is consistently seen from 'inside' Vietnam but never loses sight of the connections to the 'outside' As wave after wave of invaders - whether Chinese French Japanese or American - have been ultimately expelled we see the terrible cost to the Vietnamese themselves Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused for propaganda purposes and it is perhaps only now that the events which created the modern state can be seen from a truly historical perspectiveChristopher Goscha draws on the latest research and discoveries in Vietnamese French and English His book is a major achievement describing both the grand narrative of Vietnam's story but also the byways curiosities differences cultures and peoples that have done so much over the centuries to define the many versions of Vietnam"
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| "Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese DaughterThe story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution blamed for her mother&39;s death ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother A story of greed hatred and jealousy; a domestic drama is played against the extraordinary political events in China and Hong Kong Written with the emotional force of a novel but with a vividness drawn from a personal and political background Falling Leaves has been an enduring bestseller all over the world"
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| "The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary SupplementThe Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism Now in its fifth edition it remains the most comprehensive and accessible work of its kind and is invaluable for students teachers and general readers alike- Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia iamb zeugma) and critical jargon (aporia binary opposition intertextuality)- Explores literary movements (neoclassism romanticism vorticism) and schools of literary theory- Covers genres (elegy fabliau pastoral) and literary forms (haiku ottava rima sonnet)"
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| "The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford..." |
| "It's time to rethink our attitudes to workFor too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology And yet many of us are not suited to office life while skilled manual work provides one of the few and most rewarding paths to a secure livingDrawing on the work of our greatest thinkers from Aristotle to Heidegger from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch as well as on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic Matthew Crawford's irreverent and inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work forever"
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| "Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century&39;s problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in?As Charles Montgomery reveals it&39;s not how much money your neighbours earn or how pleasant the climate is that makes the most difference Journeying to dozens of cities - from Atlanta to Bogota to Vancouver - he talks to the new champions of the happy city to explore the urban innovations already transforming people&39;s livesHe meets the visionary Colombian mayor who turned some of the world&39;s most dangerous roads into an urban cycling haven; the Danish architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan towns to modern-day Copenhagen; and the New York City transport commissioner who turned the gridlock of Times Square into a place to lounge in the sunDrawing on the lessons from their stories from brain science and from the fascinating realm of urban experimentation Happy City offers solutions we can all use to improve our livesandshows that simple changes can make all the difference&39;Do we live in neighbourhoods that make us happy? Montgomery encourages us to ask without embarrassment and to think intelligently about the answer&39; The New York Times Book Review&39;Excellent Montgomery believes in the importance of smart town planning and Happy City is a compendium of its major ideas&39; Will Dean IndependentCharles Montgomery is a journalist and urban experimentalist from Vancouver Canada His writings on urban planning psychology culture and history have appeared in magazines and journals on three continents He is the author of one previous book and was an original member of the BMW Guggenheim Lab"
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| "The Fall of Five: Lorien Legacies Book 4 by Pittacus Lore (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "The Fall of Five is the heartstopping fourth installment in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus LoreI thought things would change when I found the others We would stop running We would fight the Mogadorians And we would winBut I was wrong Even though we have come together we barely escaped from them with our lives And now we're in hiding figuring out our next moveThe six of us are powerful - but not strong enough to take on their entire army We haven't discovered the full extent of our Legacies We haven't learned to work together Time is running out and there's only one thing we know for certain We need to find Number Five before they doThey caught Number One in MalaysiaNumber Two in EnglandAnd Number Three in KenyaI am Number Four I was supposed to be nextBut I'm still aliveThis battle is far from overPraise for Pittacus Lore'Tense exciting full of energy' Observer'Relentlessly readable' The Times'Tense keeps you wondering' Sunday Times'Set to eclipse Harry Potter and moody vampires Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet' Big IssueThe first book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series I Am Number Four is now a major Disney motion picture and along with The Power of Six and The Rise of Nine perfect for fans of The Hunger Games"
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| "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works In this revelatory book Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world including There's no such thing as a 'free' marketGlobalization isn't making the world richerWe don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internetPoor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich onesHigher paid managers don't produce better results We don't have to accept things as they are any longer Ha-Joon Chang is here to show us there's a better way 'Lively accessible and provocative read this book' Sunday Times 'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' Observer 'The new kid on the economics block Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans' Independent on Sunday 'Lucid audacious increasingly influential will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance' Guardian 'Important persuasive an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization' Financial Times 'A must-read incisive and entertaining' New Statesman Books of the Year Ha-Joon Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder Development Strategy in Historical Perspective which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and Bad Samaritans Rich Nations Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system"
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| "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "In sixty-four bite-sized pieces of advice Michael Pollan&39;s Food Rules tells you everything you need to know to eat healthily dine happily and live well Eat food Mostly plants Not too much Using those seven simple words as his guide internationally-acclaimed food journalist Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food Sensible easy to use and written in plain English Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or designed to help you eat real food in reasonable amounts gathered from a wide variety of sources nutritionists anthropologists ancient cultures - and grandmothers Whether at the supermarket a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet this handy pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat &39;In more than four decades I have come across nothing more intelligent sensible and simple to follow than these principles&39;The New York Times&39;Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating Sense at last&39; Daily Mail praise for In Defence of Food&39;Pollan invites us to grab our pots and pans and cook some real food for dinner&39; Time Out praise for In Defence of Food&39;Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet&39; The Times praise for In Defence of FoodMichael Pollan has been writing for over twenty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect food agriculture gardens drugs and architecture The Omnivore&39;s Dilemma about the ethics and ecology of eating was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post He is also the author of The Botany of Desire A Place of My Own and Second Nature and most recently In Defence of Food"
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| "Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Sendhil Mullainathan the 'most interesting young economist in the world' and Eldar Shafir the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation explain the hidden problem behind everything with ScarcityWhy can we never seem to keep on top of our workload social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity Using the new science of scarcity they explain why obesity is rampant; why people find it difficult to sleep when most sleep deprived; and why the lonely find it so hard to make friends Scarcity will change the way you think about both the little everyday tasks and the big issues of global urgency'Stars in their respective disciplines and the combination is greater than the sum of its parts Their project has a unique feel to it it is the finest combination of heart and head that I have seen in our field' - Daniel Kahneman author of Thinking Fast and Slow'Scarcity is a captivating book overflowing with new ideas fantastic stories and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live' - Steven D Levitt coauthor of Freakonomics'An ultimately humane and very welcome book' - Oliver Burkeman Guardian Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant He conducts research on development economics behavioural economics and corporate finance He is Executive Director of Ideas 42 Institute of Quantitative Social Science Harvard UniversityEldar Shafir is William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University Most of his work focuses on descriptive analyses of inference judgment and decision making and on issues related to behavioural economics"
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| "Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Deep Country is Neil Ansell&39;s account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales&39;I lived alone in this cottage for five years summer and winter with no transport no phone This is the story of those five years where I lived and how I lived It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on endAnd it is the story of the hidden places that I came to call my own and the wild creatures that became my society&39;Neil Ansell immerses himself in the rugged British landscape exploring nature&39;s unspoilt wilderness and man&39;s relationship with it"
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| "Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry"
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| "Selected Poems by William Yeats (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "WB Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern ClassicsFew have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as WB Yeats in his love affairs politics and poetry From his youth in the 1880s a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century This selection of Yeats's work includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poemW B Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century Much of his most vigorous verse on love sex Irish and international politics the complexities of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939If you enjoyed Selected Poems you might like The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry also available in Penguin Classics'A compelling poetic presence together with Joyce Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible'Timothy Webb"
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| "Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life 'A man is not an orange You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on his last legs Failing at his job dismayed at his the failure of his sons Biff and Happy to live up to his expectations and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard Willy spirals into a well of regret reminiscence and A scathing indictment of the ultimate failure of the American dream and the empty pursuit of wealth and success is a harrowing journey In creating Willy Loman his destructively insecure anti-hero Miller defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'"
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| "Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "&39;Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it&39; Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War chronicled in Homage to Catalonia Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity passion and clarity describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona the courage of ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside the terror and confusion of the front his near-fatal bullet wound and the vicious treachery of his supposed allies A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War George Orwell&39;s Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics"
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| "Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "&39;We&39;re not Christians Christ stopped short of here at Eboli&39; Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state hedged in by custom and sorrow without comfort or solace where eternally patient the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli"
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| "Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Flora Thompson&39;s immortal trilogy containing "Lark Rise" "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green" is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author&39;s experiences during childhood and youth It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children&39;s games the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen friends and relations - all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural EnglandWith a new introduction by Richard Mabey"
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| "Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm Instantly drawn to the land she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 and it was there that she wrote this classic account of her experiences A poignant farewell to her beloved farm Out of Africa describes her strong friendships with the people of her area her affection for the landscape and animals and great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-HattonWritten with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever"
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| "Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently vowing 'never to make England my home again' This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking' from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson Goodbye to All That with its vivid harrowing descriptions of the Western Front is a classic war document and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever writtenRobert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet novelist and critic He is best known for the historical novel I Claudius and the critical study of myth and poetry The White Goddess His autobiography Goodbye to All That was published in 1929 quickly establishing itself as a modern classic Graves also translated Apuleius Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology The Greek Myths His translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin ClassicsIf you enjoyed Goodbye to All That you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End also available in Penguin Modern Classics'His wonderful autobiography'Jeremy Paxman Daily Mail"
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| "Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor Marcus Aurelius Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn her magnificent novel Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world The Emperor Hadrian aware his demise is imminent writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius his future successor The Emperor meditates on his past describing his accession military triumphs love of poetry and music and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy Memoirs of Hadrian captures the living spirit of the Emperor and of Ancient RomeMarguerite de Crayencour (1903-88) who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguarite Yourcenar' was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist the first woman to be elected to the Academie francaise Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929; in 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York When Memoires d'Hadrien was first published in 1951 it was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaimIf you enjoyed Memoirs of Hadrian you might like Robert Graves's I Claudius also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A timeless masterpiece every page is informed by her profound scholarship'Paul Bailey author of Gabriel's Lament'Yourcenar conjures worlds She can make us share passion - for beauty bodies ideas even power - and consider it closely at the same time She is that most extraordinary thing a sensual thinker'Independent on Sunday"
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| "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern ClassicsFor Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning' Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying Spanish giggle' as were Cezanne and Matisse Hemingway and Fitzgerald As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me' A light-hearted entertainment this is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932 Audacious sardonic and characteristically self-confident this is a definitive account by American in ParisGertrude Stein (1874-1946) a writer of experimental prose is one of the original American Modernists Born in Pennsylvania she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner Alice B Toklas Experimental books like Three Lives (1909) Tender Buttons (1914) and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist and The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas made her an international celebrity As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets in our century from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell in her own time to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan in oursIf you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas you might like Virginia Woolf's Orlando also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Buttonholes the reader with its informality its unhurried rhythms deadpan humour and acerbic remarks'Frances Spalding Sunday Times"
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| "The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation Carefully removing his bandages he realizes that he is the only person who can see everyone else doctors and patients alike have been blinded by a meteor shower Now with civilization in chaos the triffids - huge venomous large-rooted plants able to 'walk' feeding on human flesh - can have their day The Day of the Triffids published in 1951 expresses many of the political concerns of its time the Cold War the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse However with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants the book is more relevant today than ever beforeJohn Wyndham was born in 1903 After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921 Careers which he tried included farming law commercial art and advertising and he first started writing short stories intended for sale in 1925 During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including The Kraken Wakes The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos"
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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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| "Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "When he was almost sixty years old worried that he might have lost touch with the sights the sounds and the essence of America's people Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel He was accompanied by his French poodle Charley diplomat and watchdog across the states of America from Maine to California Moving through the woods and deserts dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty and insight with a humorous and sometimes sceptical eye - America and the Americans who inhabited it What he saw was a lonely generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud angry sympathetic and elated His vision of how the world was changing still speaks to us prophetically through the decades"
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| "The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern ClassicsPhilip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers lives the author of an underground bestseller His book offers a new vision of reality - an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted Does 'reality' lie with him or is his world just one among many others?Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928 His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels typically character studies incorporating androids drugs and hallucinations His best works are generally agreed to be The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the inspiration for the movie Blade RunnerIf you enjoyed The Man in the High Castle you might like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We also available in Penguin Classics'The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet'Rolling Stone'Dick's finest book and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published'Eric Brown"
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| "The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Written in Paris in the early 1950s this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future"
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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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