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A Passage to India by E M Forster
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first timeWhen Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real In ...Show more
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free from t ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jaz ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
That's a real writer, with the true comic spirit. A really funny book. James Joyce.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privile ...Show more
Children Are Civilians Too by Heinrich Böll
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enemies - A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and ...Show more
Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse
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Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Presents the record of the author's struggle to 'fashion his inner life for himself'.
Federico Garcis Lorca - Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca
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Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
A newly revised edition of the insightful poetic cycle by one of the key figures of modern literature Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is one of the most important books he produced, and certainly one of the most important books ever p ...Show more
Henry And June from the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin by Nin Anais
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Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: good
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.
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, | Reading Level: very good
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
I'm Dying Laughing by Christina Stead
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
This novel of betrayal and self-delusion recreates the political turbulence of the American Left and the clamor and menace of the McCarthy Right. Emily Wilks is a woman of enormous but mercurial enthusiasms. Stephen Howard is a dangerous dreamer. Together, they mirror their times, the heady revolutionar ...Show more