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Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's pos ...Show more
Ethics by Benedict Spinoza
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
Hedda Gabler/The Pillars of the Community/The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his pas ...Show more
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
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Category: Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Little Birds by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more