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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141182537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane A silver-tongued poet or a pervert A tortured soul or a monster Or is he all of these
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141184906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.
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By: Thomas Wolfe
ISBN: 9780241215746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world.
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By: Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 9780141181493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners.
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By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780141189208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. But now her husband is dead. Finally Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited
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By: Gillian Rose
ISBN: 9780241645499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780141185330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
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By: Marguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780141184968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Emperor Hadrian writes a valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. This work recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world.
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241436240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780143105244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes the stories "Metamorphosis"; "Meditation"; "The Judgement"; "The Stoker"; and "The Aeroplanes at Brescia".
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780241388945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tt-Michel Kpomassie
ISBN: 9780241554531
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patrick Modiano
ISBN: 9780241402184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stanislaw Lem
ISBN: 9780241269077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sam Selvon
ISBN: 9780241504390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241476093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780141188812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of madness, a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future. His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul.
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By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780241436271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charles Chaplin
ISBN: 9780141011479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. This autobiography constructs the poor London childhood and his prodigious life in the movies.
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By: Marc Chagall
ISBN: 9780241331415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780141195551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality.
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By: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780241338322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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