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My Turn to Make the Tea by Monica Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' Nina StibbePoppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in t ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
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Category: Children's | Series: Essential Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them a ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
On Photography by Susan Sontag
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Our Town and Other Plays by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. This title includes "Our Town"; "The Skin of our Teeth"; and "The Matchmaker".
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever. In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Category: Biography | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
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Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Modern Classics
Re-release of John Le Carré's most surprising book. Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared.Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur g ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more