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By: James Joyce
ISBN: 9780141183114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night.
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By: Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780141190044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew.
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By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780141189567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Depicts a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love.
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By: Richard Cobb
ISBN: 9780241351314
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Irmgard Keun
ISBN: 9780241391808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780141185910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.
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By: Wang Xiaobo
ISBN: 9780241634226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kathy Acker
ISBN: 9780241352144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ernesto Che Guevara
ISBN: 9780241465080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780141391984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.
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By: Hunter S Thompson
ISBN: 9780141187457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It is said that the Hell's Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear. This book explores the questions such as: How much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality
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By: Anas Nin
ISBN: 9780141183282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts.
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By: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780141184876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Is Moses Herzog losing his mind His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age.
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By: John Hersey
ISBN: 9780141184371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. This book presents an account of six men and women who struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease.
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By: Leon Trotsky
ISBN: 9780241301319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141393025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, the author brings the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, and more.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141183053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, the author brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of ordinary Spanish men and more.
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780141392035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.
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By: Richard Llewellyn
ISBN: 9780141185859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.
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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.
