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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by S. T. (EDT) H. P.; Joshi Lovecraft
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
Category: Classics | 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 Castle by Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood (Translator); Idris Parry (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
The protagonist, known only as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle above it shrouded in mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle, the officials who run the bureacracy that governs the village, K. ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
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The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended between two identities - and you have a man who, perhaps for the first time in his life, is really free. However, freedom can be a noose around a man's neck.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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The only complete collection of writings by Anne Frank, this impressive volume contains three of the extant versions of her Diary (including pages that came to light in 1998), Tales from the Secret Annex (he lesser known short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences), and Cady's Life (her unfinished ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Sea-Wind (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Edge of the Sea is the third and final book in the sea trilogy written by the American marine biologist.
The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson; Charles E. Modlin (Contribution by)
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Published two years after the 1919 masterpiece "Winesburg, Ohio," this collection of short stories explores intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and bursts of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Lorna Katherine; Sage Mansfield
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Little Prince and Letter to a Hostage by De Saint-exupery A.
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin twentieth century classics
The Long Valley by John H. Timmerman
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more