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By: Patrick Kavanagh

ISBN: 9780141183480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry. It includes selection that range from initial offerings such as "Tinker's Wife" and "Inniskeen Road: July Evening" to his tragic masterpiece "The Great Hunger" (1942) and celebratory verse, "To Hell with Common Sense" and "Come Dance with Kitty Stobling".


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By: R. S. Thomas

ISBN: 9780140188905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century. His poems are an expression of his lifelong argument with himself, and of his insistent search for God. This title presents a selection of his poems that reveal a wide range of themes and concerns.


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By: Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN: 9780141181110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of poems.


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By: Paul Celan

ISBN: 9780140189209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1996
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents poetry drawn from the author's experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps.


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By: Fernando Pessoa

ISBN: 9780141184333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains poems that features four separate personae who have their own poetic identity. This title contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.


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By: Allen Ginsberg

ISBN: 9780141184760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents chronologically works such as "Paterson", selections from "White Shroud", "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and including the poems "Howl" and "Kaddish" as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet.


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By: Joseph Brodsky

ISBN: 9780241464823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anna Freud

ISBN: 9780141980911
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and development revolutionized the treatment of the young. This book offers an overview of her entire career, displaying the richness, variety and originality of her thinking.


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By: Isak Dinesen

ISBN: 9780141187198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels.


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By: T. E. Lawrence

ISBN: 9780141182766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. This title presents the epic events.


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By: Henry Miller

ISBN: 9780141399119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his rosy crucifixion. In this volume, he looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.


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By: Isak Dinesen

ISBN: 9780140180435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1990
UK Publication Date: 25th October 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape.


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By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

ISBN: 9780141197630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport to America. But as the Nazis threaten to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood sweetheart who has been waiting for him all these years.


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By: Theodore Dreiser

ISBN: 9780140188288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1995
UK Publication Date: 30th March 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man which marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America.


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By: Luigi Pirandello

ISBN: 9780140189223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1995
UK Publication Date: 29th June 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Translated from the Italian, this volume includes plays such as "Six Characters in Search of an Author", "The tragedy Henry IV", and "So It Is, (If You Think So)".


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By: David Gates

ISBN: 9780141180939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence, producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it.


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By: Jean Rhys

ISBN: 9780141984544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Salter

ISBN: 9780141189581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rand's passion is climbing - mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. Not intending it, he becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. This novel reveals what happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes


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By: Roald Dahl

ISBN: 9780141189642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes eighteen tales of the macabre.


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By: Adonis

ISBN: 9780241483558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gerald Brenan

ISBN: 9780141189321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Between 1920 and 1934, the author lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen. This book depicts his time there, evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. It portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, village customs, superstitions and characters.


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By: Ernest Shackleton

ISBN: 9780241251096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Antoine Saint-Exupery

ISBN: 9780141183749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 27th July 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features novels including "Southern Mail" and "Night Flight" that evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable.


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By: Mario Benedetti

ISBN: 9780241302620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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