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In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
At the age of 20, Katherine Mansfield left England for the Bavarian spa town of Bad Worishofen. Alone and detached, she coolly observed the absurd posturings and affectations of the German bourgeoisie at leisure. There she began to write the stories that appeared in this, her first collection.
Lark Rise to Candleford : A Trilogy by Flora Thompson
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Martin Eden by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
Category: Biography | 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.
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
Petersburg : A Novel in Eight Chapters : With a Prologue and an Epilogue by David (TRN) Andrei; McDuff Bely
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Selected Poems (Tsvetaeva, Marina) by Marina Tsvetaeva
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Selected Stories by Lardner Ring
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner's best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as "Alibi Ike," "Some Like Them Cold," and "Guillible's Travels." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publishe ...Show more
Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays by Simonetta (EDT) D. H.; De Filippis Lawrence
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This generous selection of Georges Perec's non-fiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking exami ...Show more
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark; William Boyd (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to 'bring vision into the lives of the workers'. A devilishly charismatic force of nature who likes nothing better than to stir things up, he takes great delight in w ...Show more