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| "Once & Then by Morris Gleitzman (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "That's the good thing with stories There's always a chance they can come trueFelix is lucky Unlike the other children in the orphanage he's certain his parents will come back for him one day And whatever the Nazis do and however many books they burn Felix's imagination provides him and his companions with an endless supply of stories - stories that protect them when they're on the run shield them from the violent madness all around give them hope when all seems lost and one day may even save Felix's lifeOnce & Then is a spellbinding story of hope and imagination in the most terrible circumstancesHowever my story turns out I'll never forget how lucky I am"
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| "The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "The Mystery of Mercy Close is the tale of strong and sassy but vulnerable private detective Helen Walsh who is looking for a missing person - but can she find him before she loses herself? 'I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people Simply because it saves time ' Wasp-tongued private investigator Helen Walsh doesn't believe in love fear depression or hot drinks But when a missing persons case takes her into the dark glamorous world of her dodgy ex Jay Parker she is drawn away from Artie Devlin her distinctly unglamorous detective boyfriendCaught between smart stable Artie and chaotic up-for-anything Jay - two different but equally enticing men - and plagued by her own black doubts Helen finds she's beginning to believe in somethingBut is it fear or is it love?'A brilliant unusual brave sexy book will confirm Keyes's place as one of our finest writers' Jojo Moyes 'Gut-bustingly funny' Independent on Sunday'When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily Express'Zips along with engaging characters fabulous plotting and spot-on dialogue Marian Keyes what a genius' Daily Mail"
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| "The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Ever wish you could trade your life in for a better one?The Woman Who Stole My Life is a story full of wit and charm from the international bestselling author Marian Keyes 'Name Stella SweeneyHeight averageRecent life events dramatic'One day sitting in traffic married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed The resulting car crash changes her lifeFor she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance it turns out) That's okay She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car)But this chance meeting sparks a chain of events which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and along the way wrenching her whole family apartIs this all because of one ill-advised act of goodwill? Was meeting Mr Range Rover destiny or karma? Should she be grateful or hopping mad? For the first time real honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach But is Stella Sweeney Dublin housewife ready to grasp it?'When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily Express'Gloriously funny' The Sunday Times'Keyes manages to have you alternately blubbing and belly-laughing to the final page' Company'Not only is it a great story with funny loveable characters it made me laugh out loud' Stylist 'One of those rare books that will swallow up your day without realising it Romantic and uplifting it won't fail to put a smile on your face Marian Keyes is back to her best' The Daily Express 'A warm and hilarious page turner' Good Housekeeping'Funny but poignant' Marie Claire'A smart new drama from the awesome Marian Keyes' Heat 'Full of twists and turns with warmth and humour on every page it doesn't disappoint' Closer 'A modern fairy tale it's full of Keyes's self-deprecating wit' The Sunday Mirror"
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| "The Way We Were by Elizabeth Noble (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "A beautiful romance about fate and finding happiness from the Number One bestsellerWhat if you had a second chance at first love?Susannah and Rob were childhood sweethearts But as with most early love affairs they broke up moved on and now find themselves in very different places And not entirely happy - who is?A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Is fate telling you it's time for a second chance or should you simply walk away and let the past become ancient history?But Susannah and Rob just aren't able to forget the way they were and the world is about to discover the consequences of their reunion'Impossible to finish without tears streaming down your face' Daily Express"
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| "What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Was losing her memory the best thing that ever happened to her?THE PERFECT ROMANTIC COMEDY TO READ THIS VALENTINE'S DAY from the bestselling author of the hit HBO series Big Little LiesAlice can't remember the last ten years of her life She doesn't recognise her children her husband herself Alice is twenty-nine She adores sleep chocolate and her ramshackle new house She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first babyThere's just one problem All of that was ten years ago Alice has slipped in a step-aerobics class hit her head and lost a decade Now she's a grown-up bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her This is her life but not as she knows itClearly Alice has made some terrible mistakes Just how much can happen in a decade?Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?'Gripping thought-provoking and funny' Marie Claire'The perfect holiday read' She'A call to embrace life' Easy Living"
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| "On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude the power of the imagination the pleasures of reading the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things 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"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "'Lively a joy to read' - The TimesShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizeFrom the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianNorth London in the twenty-first century a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother rather than lose the council flatA time of golden job opportunities though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on youA place rich in language - whether it's Romanian Ukrainian Russian Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementeseA place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new buildsMarina Lewycka is back in this hilarious farcical tender novel of modern issues and manners"
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| "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole seriesSunday July 18thMy father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy I pushed my sausages away untouched In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades'Funny moving and a poke in the eye for adult morality' Sunday Express 'Written with great verve and showing an uncanny understanding of the young Sue Townsend holds the balance between innocence and precocity and the result is both hilarious and salutary' Daily Telegraph 'Life's no fun for an adolescent intellectual For the reader it's a hoot' New StatesmanSue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen and I Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband four children ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers"
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| "I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "They killed Number One in Malaysia Number Two in England And Number Three in Kenya John Smith is not your average teenager He regularly moves from small town to small town He changes his name and identity He does not put down roots He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him But you can&39;t run forever So when he stops in Paradise Ohio John decides to try and settle down To fit in And for the first time he makes some real friends People he cares about - and who care about him Never in John&39;s short life has there been space for friendship or even love But it&39;s just a matter of time before John&39;s secret is revealed He was once one of nine Three of them have been killed John is Number Four He knows that he is next Praise for Pittacus Lore&39;Tense exciting full of energy&39; Observer&39;Relentlessly readable&39; The Times&39;Set to eclipse Harry Potter and moody vampires Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet&39; Big Issue&39;Tense keeps you wondering&39; Sunday TimesPerfect for fans of The Hunger Games - I Am Number Four is the first book in Pittacus Lore&39;s Lorien Legacies series and is now a major Disney film"
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| "The Power of Six: Lorien Legacies Book 2 by Pittacus Lore (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "They caught Number One in MalaysiaNumber Two in EnglandAnd Number Three in KenyaThey tried to catch Number Four in Ohio and failedI am Number Seven And I'm ready to fightI've seen him on the news Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith To the world he's a mystery but to me he's one of us Nine of us came here but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us if we all still believe in our missionThere are six of us left We're hiding blending in avoiding contact with one another but our Legacies are developing and soon we'll be ready to fight Is John Number Four - and is his appearance the sign I've been waiting for? And what about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy eyes from my dreams? The girl with powers that are beyond anything I could ever imagine? The girl who might be strong enough to bring the six of us together?Praise 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 IssuePerfect for fans of The Hunger Games - The Power of Six is the second book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series The first book I Am Number Four is now a major Disney motion picture"
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| "The Rise of Nine: Lorien Legacies Book 3 by Pittacus Lore (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore'Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay director of Transformers Until I met John Smith Number Four I'd been on the run alone hiding and fighting to stay alive Together we are much more powerful But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others I went to Spain to find Seven and I found even more including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive Ella is younger than the rest of us but just as brave Now we're looking for the others - including JohnBut so are theyI am Number Six To finish what they started they'll have to fight us firstPraise 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 Rise of Nine is the third book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series The first book in his 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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| "The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "'With flashes of brilliance tenderness and fury Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator does what fiction should It makes you listen' Arundhati Roy author of The God of Small ThingsBy the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir teenage boys come to play cricket talk about girls and just be But a few years later when they are young men and violence grips the region they are goneOnly the son of the local headman has stayed He knows his friends have slipped over the border to Pakistan and turned militant to bear arms against the Indian army He would like to join them - but he cannotInstead put in an impossible position by an Indian army Captain he must cross into the shadowland between the opposing sides a ghost walking among the dead His fate like that of his lost brothers unknown 'Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger and despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional conveying a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris' Metro'Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace and despair his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering and profound' Independent on Sunday'Compelling An important and poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war' Daily MailMirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir His debut novel The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize It was also book of the year for the Telegraph New Statesman Financial Times Business Standard and Telegraph India Waheed has written for the BBC the Guardian Granta Al Jazeera English and The New York Times He lives in London"
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| "Hothouse Flower by Lucinda Riley (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "FROM THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OLIVE TREE AND THE SHADOW SISTERA heart-rending page turner which sweeps from war-torn Europe to Thailand and back again As a child Julia Forrester would linger in the hothouse of Wharton Park estate where exotic flowers tended by her grandfather blossomed and faded with the seasonsNow recovering from a family tragedy she once more seeks comfort at Wharton Park newly inherited by Kit Crawford a charismatic man with a sad story of his own But when a years-old diary is found during renovation work the pair turn to Julia's grandmother to hear the truth about the love affair that turned Wharton Park's fortunes sour And so Julia is plunged back in time to the world of Olivia and Harry Crawford a young couple torn apart by the Second World War - and whose fragile marriage is destined to affect the happiness of generations to come including Julia's own Outside the UK this book is published under the title The Orchid House'Atmospheric heart-rending and multi-layered' Grazia"
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| "In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "One of the greatest most entertaining reading experiences in any language Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol 1 The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin ClassicsThe Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine It contains the separate short novel A Love of Swann's a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical sceptical confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human conditionSince the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C K Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged comic and lucid Proust As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end it is this Penguin Classics edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generationMarcel Proust (1871-1922) is generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris giving himself over entirely to writing his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu)If you enjoyed In Search Of Lost Time you might like James Joyce's Ulysses also available in Penguin Modern Classics'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world'Sunday Telegraph"
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| "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern ClassicsRomantic heroic comic and tragic unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction Her glamour unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set' introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play and later a film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie SmithMuriel Spark (1918 - 2006) wrote poetry stories and biographies as well as a remarkable series of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) which received the James Tait Black Prize and The Public Image (1968) and Loitering with Intent (1981) both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize Spark was awarded the TS Eliot Award for poetry in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize for literature in 1997 If you enjoyed The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie you might like Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A sublimely funny book it is a book to be read by all unforgettable and universal'Candia McWilliam author of Debatable Land"
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| "Ada or Ardor" |
| "'A great work of art radiant and rapturous affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate in a 'dream-bright' America through eighty years of rapture as they cross continents are continually parted and reunited come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and decades later put their extraordinary experiences into words Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose Nabokov's longest richest novel is a love story but also a fairy tale a historical parody an erotic satire an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination"
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| "The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry" |
| "Reflecting the voices of poets soldiers the families they left behind and their comrades who would never return The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry previously published as In Flanders Fields is edited with an introduction by George Walter in Penguin ClassicsUnrivalled for its range and intensity the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers This anthology reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict Including famous verses from Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; pieces by less well-known writers such as Gilbert Frankau and Osbert Sitwell; works by women describing the emotions of those at home; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers' songs The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry offers a blend of voices that is both unique and profoundly movingThis collection has been arranged thematically moving through the war's different stages from conscription through to its aftermath to offer the reader a variety of perspectives on the same common experiences George Walter's introduction discusses the role and scope of First World War poetry anthologies and how the canon has changed over the years This edition also contains notes and biographiesGeorge Walter is Lecturer in English at Sussex University His research interests are 20th-century literature; madness and creativity; constructions of Englishness; the cultural impact of the First World War He has edited editions of the poet Ivor Gurney's work for Everyman and Fyfield BooksIf you enjoyed The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry you might also like Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That available in Penguin Modern Classics"
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| "The Concept of Mind" |
| "This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge imagination consciousness and the intellect The result is a classic example of philosophy"
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| "Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback" |
| "James Joyce&39;s Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown Joyce&39;s first major work written when he was only twenty-five brought his city to the world for the first time His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life portraying ordinary often defeated lives with unflinching realism From &39;The Sisters&39; a vivid portrait of childhood faith and guilt to &39;Araby&39; a timeless evocation of the inexplicable yearnings of adolescence to &39;The Dead&39; in which Gabriel Conroy is gradually brought to a painful epiphany regarding the nature of his existence Joyce draws a realistic and memorable cast of Dubliners together in an powerful exploration of overarching themes Writing of social decline sexual desire and exploitation corruption and personal failure he creates a brilliantly compelling unique vision of the world and of human experience James Joyce (1882-1941) the eldest of ten children was born in Dublin but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works Ulysses and Finnegans Wake He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter&39;s mental illness If you enjoyed Dubliners you might like Joyce&39;s Ulysses also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;Joyce redeems his Dubliners assures their identity and makes their social existence appear permanent and immortal like the streets they walk&39;Tom Paulin&39;Joyce&39;s early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance&39;Sunday Times"
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| "Brideshead Revisited : The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Paperback" |
| "Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh&39;s stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh&39;s novels Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War It tells the story of Charles Ryder&39;s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family in particular his remote sister Julia Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead second son of Arthur Waugh publisher and literary critic and brother of Alec Waugh the popular novelist In 1928 he published his first work a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his first novel Decline and Fall which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930) A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938) In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of &39;The Sword of Honour&39; trilogy and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender followed in 1955 and 1961 If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited you might like Waugh&39;s Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Classics &39;Lush and evocative Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit&39;The Times"
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| "Lolita (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century Vladimir Nabokov&39;s Lolita is a strange troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by Craig RainePoet and pervert Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her first carnally and then artistically out of love &39;to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets&39; Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert&39;s seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov&39;s dizzying masterpiece which is suffused with a savage humour and rich elaborate verbal textures Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe&39;Lolita is comedy subversive yet divine You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair ravished overcome nodding scandalized assent&39;Martin Amis Observer"
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| "The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts" |
| "Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition paranoia and malice culminating in a violent climax is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusationsA depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America"
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| "In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The chilling true crime &39;non-fiction novel&39; that made Truman Capote&39;s name In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern ClassicsControversial and compelling In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer his wife and both their children Truman Capote&39;s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock who vividly drawn by Capote are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories novels and novellas travel writing profiles reportage memoirs plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965) Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986) all of which are published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIf you enjoyed In Cold Blood you might like Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs&39; And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks also available in Penguin Modern Classics&39;It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers Capote produces a stark image of the deep doubleness of American life a remarkable book&39;Spectator"
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| "Lucky Jim" |
| "Kingsley Amis's witty campus novel Lucky Jim is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life This Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by David LodgeJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand Inspired by Amis's friend the poet Philip Larkin Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious worldKingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London wrote poetry criticism and short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) and That Uncertain Feeling (1955); his other works include The Green Man (1970) Stanley and the Women (1984) and The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker PrizeIf you enjoyed Lucky Jim you might like Amis's The King's English also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A flawless comic novel I loved it then as I do now It has always made me laugh out loud'Helen Dunmore The Times'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'Guardian"
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| "A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback" |
| "Anthony Burgess&39;s nightmare vision of a society overrun by nihilistic violence and governed by a menacing totalitarian state A Clockwork Orange includes an introduction by Blake Morrison in Penguin Modern Classics Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn&39;t just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape drugs and Beethoven&39;s ninth He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future hunting for terrible thrills But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky and the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day The basis for Stanley Kubrick&39;s notorious 1971 film A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will In his introduction Blake Morrison situates A Clockwork Orange within the context of Anthony Burgess&39;s many other works explores the author&39;s unhappiness with the Stanley Kubrick film version analyses the composition of the Nadsat argot spoken by Alex and his droogs and examines the influences on Burgess&39;s unique eternally original style Anthony Burgess (1917-93) was born in Manchester in 1917 From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 1959 Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993 His many works include The Complete Enderby Tremor of Intent The Kingdom of the Wicked and A Clockwork Orange If you enjoyed A Clockwork Orange you might like Ken Kesey&39;s One Flew Over the Cuckoo&39;s Nest also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language a very funny book&39;William S Burroughs"
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| "The Great Gatsby (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (RomeoJuliet Moulin Rouge!) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan The Great Gatsby is F Scott Fitzgerald&39;s brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Tony TannerYoung handsome and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion where the party never seems to end he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby&39;s origins and desires Beneath the shimmering surface of his life Gatsby is hiding a secret a silent longing that can never be fulfilled And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravelIn The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place for - in chronicling Gatsby&39;s tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and realityLike Jay Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the &39;great American novel&39; In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre dubbed &39;the first American Flapper&39; and their traumatic marriage and Zelda&39;s gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing As well as many short stories Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise The Great Gatsby The Beautiful and the Damned Tender is the Night and incomplete at the time of his death The Last Tycoon After his death The New York Times said of him that &39;in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" &39;&39;A classic perhaps the supreme American novel&39; John Carey Sunday Times Books of the Century"
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| "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| "Playful and experimental James Joyce&39;s autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus&39;s Dublin childhood and youth his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family religion and Ireland itself is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist&39;s &39;eternal imagination&39; Both an insight into Joyce&39;s life and childhood and a unique work of modernist fiction A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves James Joyce (1882-1941) the eldest of ten children was born in Dublin but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works Ulysses and Finnegans Wake He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter&39;s mental illness If you enjoyed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man you might like Joyce&39;s Dubliners also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;There is nothing more vivid or beautiful in all Joyce&39;s writing It has the searing clarity of truth but is rich with myth and symbol&39;Sunday Times&39;James Joyce was and remains almost unique among novelists in that he published nothing but masterpieces&39;The Times Literary Supplement"
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| "On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Five decades after it was first published Jack Kerouac&39;s seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control Brighton Rock) Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights) Kristen Stewart (Twilight) Kirsten Dunst Amy Adams and Viggo MortensenSal Paradise (Sam Riley) a young innocent joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) a traveller and mystic the living epitome of Beat on a breathless exuberant ride back and forth across the United States Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink sex drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom a test of the limits of the American dream A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography Jack Kerouac&39;s exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance poignancy and autobiographical passion One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement&39;The most beautifully executed the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat"&39; The New York Times&39;Pop writing at its best It changed the way I saw the world making me yearn for fresh experience&39;Hanif Kureishi Independent on Sunday&39;On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines and also sent countless kids on the road&39;William Burroughs"
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| "Animal Farm by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "&39;All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others&39;When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality But gradually a cunning ruthless élite among them masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball starts to take control Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another &39;It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine&39; wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943 but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin at that time Britain&39;s ally led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher Orwell&39;s simple tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury"
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| "Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn&39;s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name Breakfast at Tiffany&39;s is Truman Capote&39;s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly published in Penguin Modern Classics It&39;s New York in the 1940s where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany&39;s And nice girls don&39;t except of course for Holly Golightly glittering socialite traveller generally upwards sometimes sideways and once in a while - down Pursued by to Salvatore &39;Sally&39; Tomato the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing and &39;Rusty&39; Trawler the blue-chinned cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose a heart-breaker a perplexer a traveller a tease She is irrepressibly &39;top banana in the shock deparment&39; and one of the shining flowers of American fiction This edition also contains three stories &39;House of Flowers&39; &39;A Diamond Guitar&39; and &39;A Christmas Memory&39; Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories novels and novellas travel writing profiles reportage memoirs plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965) Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986) all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics If you enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany&39;s you might like Capote&39;s In Cold Blood also available in Penguin Modern Classics &39;One of the twentieth century&39;s most gorgeously romantic fictions&39;Daily Telegraph&39;The most perfect writer of my generation I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany&39;s&39;Norman Mailer"
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