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O Pioneers! (Penguin pocket classics) by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...' A rapturous work of savage beauty, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie i ...Show more
Out of Africa (Penguin pocket classics) by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.' Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'.
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything' A shy, unworldly young student has his eyes opened to Tokyo's bustling metropolis, in this delicate, bitter-sweet work of innocence and experience from Japan's foremost modern novelist. Ten ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Category: Military | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1 A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patrioti ...Show more
Ten Days that Shook the World: Penguin Pocket Classics by John Reed
Category: History | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
This account of the Russian Revolution by a western journalist has been admired worldwide since its first publication in 1919. Lenin endorsed it as "a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution." Reed was able to obse ...Show more
The Beast Within (Penguin pocket classics) by Émile Zola
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The train ran on without a driver, on and on, like some mindless, unseeing beast...' One of Zola's darkest and most violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind, as a murder is committed on the new railways of the Second Empire. A new series ...Show more
The Betrothed (Penguin pocket classics) by Alessandro Manzoni
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I pity this house; the curse of God is hanging over it'. Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are ...Show more
The Call Of Cthulhu: Penguin Pocket Classics by H. P. Lovecraft
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
* Book: The Call of Cthulhu * Biography * Bibliography "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu h ...Show more
The Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Penguin pocket classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive...' In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin pocket classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Listen, Švejk, are you really God's prize oaf?''Humbly report, sir,' Švejk answered solemnly. 'I am!' The chaotic, hilarious adventures of an ordinary soldier, who is either genuinely a total idiot or a genius pretending to be one - perhaps the greatest book to come out of the First World War, as Švej ...Show more
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentl ...Show more