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Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker; Mikki Bresse (Editor); Regina Barreca (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Death And Fame:last Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Published just one year after his death, this collection of poems allows the reader an insight into the mind of Allen Ginsberg as his end neared.
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the mo ...Show more
Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Contents Include: The Enemies to Each Other -The Changelings - Sea Constables: A Tale of '15 - The Vineyard - 'Banquet Night' - 'In the Interests of Brethren - To the Companions (Horace, Ode 17, Bk. V.) - The United Idolaters - The Centaurs - 'Late came the God' - The Wish House - Rahere - The Survival ...Show more
England, My England and Other Stories by Michael Bruce (EDT); Bell D. H.; Steele Lawrence
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This is the last satirical novel from Thomas Bernhard, one of Australia's greatest writers. It takes the form of a dramatic monologue spoken by a man at the end of his tether, in whom the burden of the past has become intolerable - leading to literal extinction.
Federico Garcia Lorca: Selected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This bilingual edition of Lorca's poetry provides versions by poets and translators, drawing on every book of poems published by Lorca, and on his uncollected works.
Flying Home - And Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." ...Show more
Guilty Men by John Stevenson (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A polemic against Chamberlain, MacDonald, and Baldwin whom the author Cato, a pseudonym for Michael Foot, Frank Owen, and Peter Howard, regarded as having brought the country to the brink of disaster through their policy of appeasement. First published in 1940
Henry And June from the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin by Nin Anais
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts.
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
Hurry on Down by John Wain
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of dark ...Show more