The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful short stories taken from Calvino's Cosmicomics.
I Have More Souls Than One (Mini Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
But no, she's abstract, is a bird, Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered, Because the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tirele ...Show more
The Survivor (Mini Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table.
The Finger (Mini Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamou ...Show more
Till September Petronella (Mini Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws.'In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling in Paris; and from lonely adulthood to old age and beyond - here are women adrift, at sea, down but not quite ...Show more
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...Show more
The Duke in His Domain (Mini Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.'This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break from fil ...Show more
The Legend of the Sleepers (Mini Modern Classics) by Danilo Kis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls . . . 'Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.
The Haunted Boy (Mini Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.'These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.
Four Russian Short Stories (Mini Modern Classics) by Anon
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret- that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found.'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved f ...Show more
The Cracked Looking-Glass (Mini Modern Classics) by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere'A tender story of devotion, resentment and ennui from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.