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Elaine Kraf
The Princess of 72nd Street

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'A cult classic ... A high and a comedown at once - a paroxysm of sex and booze and, above all, colour ... wryly funny ... it is also devastating' The New Yorker An unforgettable portrait of a smart, sens…

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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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William S. Burroughs
The Soft Machine

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A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includesNova Express and The Ticket That Exploded . The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual …

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John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bri…

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Kobo Abe,
The Woman in the Dunes

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Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have …

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Tove Ditlevsen,
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

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A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary p…

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Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer

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Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Clas…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Twilight in Musashino

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Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play - but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence.At…

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James Joyce
Ulysses

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Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition.…

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Tove Ditlevsen,
Vilhelm's Room

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The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author ofThe Copenhagen Trilogy'Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage - aged 51, but youthful in spirit - wonderful son, aged 15 - househ…

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Yukio Mishima,
Voices of the Fallen Heroes

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'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enríquez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon A writ…

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Yukio Mishima,
Voices of the Fallen Heroes

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'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enríquez A new selection of lyrically haunting 1960s short stories, from a Japanese literary icon…

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John Berger
Ways of Seeing

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John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC televi…

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Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Von der übrigen Außenwelt abgeschottet führen die Schloßbewohner Merricat, ihre Schwester und ihr Onkel ein exzentrisches - vielleicht sogar mörderisches- aber durchaus zufriedenes Leben. Mit aller Macht …

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John Cowper Powys
Wolf Solent

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'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson 'A genius ... a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion' Margaret Drabble John Cowper Powys's epic Wolf Solent centres around the story of a young man…

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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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Audre Lorde
Zami

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten aliveA little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s…

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