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Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, Carole Angier
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Eighteen, on her own and independent as much through circumstance as character, Anna has exchanged the West Indies of her childhood for the cold greyness of England, with its narrow streets and narrower rules. As she drifts towards the demi-monde of 1914 London, she comes to realise that life will never ...Show more
WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA by WAUGH EVELYN
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the ...Show more
WORK SUSPENDED & OTHER STORIES by WAUGH EVELYN
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's Home; Excursion in Reality; Bella Fleace Gave a Party; Winner Takes All; Work Suspended; Scott-King's Modern Europe; Basil Seal Rides Again; and Charles Ryder's Schooldays.
Wait Till I'm Dead - Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications ...Show more
War with the Newts by Karel Capek
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
I gave them my word that if they would bring me the pearl shells I would give them harpoons and knives in exchange, so that they could defend themselves, see? That's an honest deal, sir.'War with the Newts(1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early twentieth-century Czech politics. Captain ...Show more
War with the Newts by Karel Capek
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"War with the Newts (1936)" is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early twentieth-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As the rest of the world learns of the creatures and their wond ...Show more
Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor". ("Wall Street Journal"). "Watermark" is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from it ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias
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In the dark narratives that make up "When I Was Mortal" by Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pai ...Show more