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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide t ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories by H. G. Wells
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Honourable Schoolboy (Smiley's People #6) by John le Carré
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its hist ...Show more
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
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Category: New Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The King's English" is Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four- ...Show more
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and the silly'This is the most powerful portrait of England - and why it must change - ever written. Composed as bombs were falling over London at the height of the blitz, it remains ...Show more
The Little Drummer Girl: Now a BBC series by John le Carré
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A special edition of John le Carré's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the forthcoming BBC series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon and Florence Pugh Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the m ...Show more
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written" ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: New Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Russia House by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset ...Show more