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By: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780141184869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny.
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By: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9780141185286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the threat of the coming of the Second World War.
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By: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780141183831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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By: Andy Warhol
ISBN: 9780141193076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.
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By: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780241371350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 9780241340479
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tzu Sun
ISBN: 9780140439199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In this translation, the author presents the core text in two formats: first, the unadorned ancient words of wisdom ascribed to Sun-tzu, the author of "The Art of War"; then, the same text with a running commentary from the canon of traditional Chinese commentators.
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By: Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 9780141185361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this title offers a definitive account by an American in Paris.
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By: Alex Haley
ISBN: 9780141185439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race hatred. This autobiography reveals his integrity and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism.
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By: Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780141183695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind".
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780141187815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth.
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By: Soetsu Yanagi
ISBN: 9780241366356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Long revered as the authority on craftsmanship and Japanese aesthetics, Yanagi devoted his life and writing to defend the value of craft. In an age of feeble and ugly machine-made things, The Beauty of Everyday Things is a call to deepen relationships with the objects that surround people.
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By: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780241371374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780141182612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures.
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By: Tarjei Vesaas
ISBN: 9780241384879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: C. L. R. James
ISBN: 9780241562079
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780241396865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ernesto Che Guevara
ISBN: 9780241465073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780141183824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes the stories "The Congress", "Undr", "The Mirror and the Mask", "August 25, 1983", "Blue Tigers", "The Rose of Paracelsus" and "Shakespeare's Memory".
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By: Kobo Abe
ISBN: 9780241454596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780241453506
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241197806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveals a truth about the nature of existence.
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By: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780241371343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: D. W. Winnicott
ISBN: 9780241455685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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