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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780141185231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother, and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world. This book gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his work.
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By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241476086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241435144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9780141188621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this novel presents a view of man's creative potential. It is about ambition, power, gold and love.
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By: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
ISBN: 9780141391649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats.
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By: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780141190266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories.
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By: L. P. Hartley
ISBN: 9780141187785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation.
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141394886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features an epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California.
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141185064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A story of Joad family, who are forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California.
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By: John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN: 9780241468081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780141182636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires.
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780141189147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gives an account of the author's journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.
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By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780241277492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Karl Polanyi
ISBN: 9780241685556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780141191447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past.
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By: Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780141185224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who appear to have little in common except they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.
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By: Chester Himes
ISBN: 9780241521106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the start nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. Dead bodies are piling up faster than they can run, and Coffin Ed and Grave Digger seem to always be one step behind the cause of all the mayhem--$3 million worth of heroin and a simple albino called Pinky.
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241385982
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241385999
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241386002
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Robert Hurley
ISBN: 9780241389614
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241322352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: R. C. Sherriff
ISBN: 9780241349076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Federico Garca Lorca
ISBN: 9780141185750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes the plays "The House of Bernarda Alba", "Yerma", and "Blood Wedding". These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality.
