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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account by Saul Bellow
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Category: Judaica | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
In this "impassioned and thoughtful book" (The New York Times), Bellow records the opinions, passions, and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints -- Yitzhak Rabin, Amos Oz, the editor of the largest Arab-language newspaper in Israel, a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto -- and adds his own thou ...Show more
To the Lighthouse (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia LockwoodA Penguin Vitae EditionThe serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivia ...Show more
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me" is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey & The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a note ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawki ...Show more
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o ...Show more
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's ...Show more
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt' In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declara ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: --Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the da ...Show more