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George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier

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Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped sl…

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Louise Glück
Poems

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A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intel…

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George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant

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This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "Shooting an Elephant", "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of an English Mu…

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Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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"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 the…

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Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman

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Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will …

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Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book,Under the Sea Wind , appeared in 1941. Silent Spring , which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse …

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John le Carré
A Perfect Spy

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John le Carr/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has live…

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, and biographies as well as her remarkable series of novels. She is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1993 was cr…

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Henry Miller
Plexus

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Explores a mans desperate desire for freedom. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Broo…

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Ágota Kristóf,
The Notebook Trilogy

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Sent to a remote village to live with their grandmother, twins Claus and Lucas devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to the ongoing horrors of war and living under a total…

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Georges Simenon,
The Green Shutters

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Sin and green shutters: both entailed lots of unexpected consequences that weren't easy to see at first glance . . .In the twilight of his career, 'The Great' Emile Maugin, a once-celebrated actor, receiv…

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Hélène Cixous,
Medusa's Laugh

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Write! Writing is for you, you are for you, your body is for you, take it.First published in 1975, Medusa's Laugh represented a defining moment for French feminism. In this landmark essay, feminist theori…

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Virginia Woolf
The Waves

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'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York TimesTracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle…

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Brigitte Reimann
Woman in the Pillory

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A gripping, never-before-translated novella by the cult writer of Siblings Kathrin - five years into a disenchanting marriage - struggles to work the farm with her sister-in-law while her husband Heinrich…

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John le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy

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John le Carr/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has live…

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John le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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'A stunning story' Wall Street JournalA mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaste…

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Saul Bellow
More Die of Heartbreak

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Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.' While his studies take …

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Elmore Leonard
Last Stand at Saber River

Penguin Modern Classics - Westerns

In the nail-biting western L ast Stand at Sabre River , a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his land, while another enemy waits to strike... Paul Cable has come home…

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Elmore Leonard
Hombre & Three-Ten to Yuma

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**Elmore Leonard's gritty westernHombre is accompanied here by his famous short story of rough justice and survival, Three-Ten to Yuma,both of which have been made into classic filmsJohn Russell, known si…

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