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The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its...
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if...
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans...
In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and...
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees...
George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's...
Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance...
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern...
Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the...
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's...
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a...
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial...
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an...
'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day...
George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the...
A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where...
The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although...
Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist...
When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He...
Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended...
Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In The Red Pony, Jody begins to learn about adulthood -...
A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent
In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave...
Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume...
Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is...
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration...
Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who...
A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild...
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish...
Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and...
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