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By: Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780141190167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, the author broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This book brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture.
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By: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780141986678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ernesto Che Guevara
ISBN: 9780241465127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Joanne Greenberg
ISBN: 9780241563427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Philip Guston
ISBN: 9780241525715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Graves
ISBN: 9780141188591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties.
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By: Anna Kavan
ISBN: 9780241307397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780140187977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1994
UK Publication Date: 29th September 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.
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By: Primo Levi
ISBN: 9780141183909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to 20th-century atrocity. In this novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during World War II.
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141187129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is.
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780141182575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author's study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved.
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141180311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141180328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An English translation of the French original.
(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141180335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book offers an English translation of the French original.
(Paperback, 4th edition)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141180342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.
(Paperback, 5th edition)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141180359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.
(Paperback, 6th edition)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141180366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.
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By: Joanne Greenberg
ISBN: 9780241679098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Seicho Matsumoto
ISBN: 9780241724439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Portrays the development of Burroughs' mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. This book tells how his outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning.
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By: Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780141184425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. In this book, the author from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual.
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141185606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
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By: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9780141186573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. This book tells what men thought and felt and did as France fell.
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By: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780241401989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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