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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics | 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 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Promised Land by Mary Antin
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Interweaving autobiography with history, introspection and political commentary, Mary Antin recounts the process of "uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development that took place in my own soul", and reveals the impact of a new culture on her family.
The Secret Garden by Alison (EDT) Frances Hodgson; Lurie Burnett
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Lenin V I
Category: Politics | 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
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
During World War II a group of men is held prisoner by the Germans, who determine that three of them must die. This is the story of how one of those men trades his wealth for his life--and lives to pay for his act in utterly unexpected ways.
Wonderful World Of Oz by BAUM L Frank
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Most people are familiar with the land of Oz by way of the classic 1939 film. But the film was based on only the first of fourteen books about Oz in which Baum developed his vision of a socialist paradise and which garnered an immense and loyal following. Three of the novels are collected here. The Wiza ...Show more