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Martin Eden by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attractio ...Show more
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by WEBER MAX BAEHR P R WELLS GORDON C
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--one of the most enduring and influential books in sociology--is available. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar. In this ThirdEdition, Kalber ...Show more
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Lenin V I
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolutio ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Category: No Category | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, nameless numbers, survivors of a devastating war, live out lives devoid of passion and creativity. Until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Reputedly the inspiration for Orwell's 1984.
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