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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780141181349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.
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By: R. C. Sherriff
ISBN: 9780141183268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in the First World War, this book concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed.
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By: Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780241215005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses.
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780141983202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Roberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780241399439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Roberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780241399224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Aharon Appelfeld
ISBN: 9780241681190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A gentle peasant in pre-World War II Ukraine goes to work in the home of a Jewish family, and her life is transformed in ways she could never have imagined.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141183725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.
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By: Russell Hoban
ISBN: 9780241485705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780141184845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes.
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By: Billie Holiday
ISBN: 9780241351291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hubert Selby Jr.
ISBN: 9780141195650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; and Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation.
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By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780141983561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780241198209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alistair Cooke
ISBN: 9780241513361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141192246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story. This book features these letters that tell us much about the man and the writer.
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780241387801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780241344606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Salter
ISBN: 9780141188638
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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By: Emmanuel Carrre
ISBN: 9781846148217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. This book tells the story about this charecter.
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By: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780141195575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression.
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By: Anas Nin
ISBN: 9780141183404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.
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By: Antonio Tabucchi
ISBN: 9780241519288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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