Modern Classics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Brigitte Reimann,
Siblings

Penguin Modern Classics

'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and division…

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Audre Lorde
Coal

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'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.'Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coalshowcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplici…

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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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Gun-Britt Sundström,
Engagement

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'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.'Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A…

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Albert Camus
The Outsider

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Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched b…

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James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain

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"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"First published in 1953,…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

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A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express , now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mi…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Mary Anne

Virago Modern Classics

'This novel catches fire'NEW YORK TIMESDISCOVER THIS THRILLING STORY OF DESIRE AND AMBITION FROM THE AUTHOR OF REBECCAShe set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country.In Regency London, the only way…

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Georges Simenon,
The Cat

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'Remarkable' New York Times ' No one is better than Simenon at showing how banal domestic conflict can lead to murderous catastrophe' Financial TimesAn acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estran…

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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

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'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

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A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express , now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mi…

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Mary Renault
The Persian Boy

Virago Modern Classics

INTRODUCED BY SEÁN HEWITTI thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a king. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.Bagoas,…

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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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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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Cecilia Farr
As I Was Saying

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: fille…

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Lena Mattheis
Queer Forms and Pronouns

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are frequently discussed in the contexts of language policies, grammar, and inclusion, b…

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Akinloyè Òjó
Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities

A scholarly consideration of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá and his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn ,via the analysis of the influential role of traditional forms of praise-singing in Yorùbá contemporary poetry.

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Susan Byrne
The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes

This book reveals the central role played by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the development of modern-day aesthetics.

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David Day
A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

Dive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien with this deluxe edition that will stand out on your bookshelf.Step into the extraordinary world of J. R. R. Tolkien with this beautifull…

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