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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: Muriel Spark
ISBN: 9780141188355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets.
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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: Professional and Scholarly
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: Tertiary Education
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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By: Chaim Potok
ISBN: 9780141040776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the 20th century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.
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By: John Wyndham
ISBN: 9780141181479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed.
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By: Dorothy Parker
ISBN: 9780141182582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.
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By: Jean Rhys
ISBN: 9780141984858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780141189680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780141188089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
