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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a masterful retelling of the ancient myths and fables we may only think we know. From the tale of Europa and the bull to the fall of Troy, Roberto Calasso weaves his way through the entire world of Greek mythology with a captivating sense of curiosity and intrigue t ...Show more
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
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Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Well known for coining the term 'Global Village', Marshall McLuhan's thinking was, and still is, revolutionary. His theories, many of which are illustrated in this astonishing 'inventory of effects', force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society. This is an astonishing work by a tr ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Mortgaged Heart by MCCULLERS CARSON
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mortgaged Heart" is an important collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection al ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses ...Show more
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brand new transaction of the "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical market.
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more
The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy and Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives. This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as m ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more