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The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
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Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic' Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contempor ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck; Linda Wagner-Martin (Introduction by); Jose Clemente Orozco (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Steinbeck's lyrical and moving novel, now in an elegant clothbound edition The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in c ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 Star-Child by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics/Literary | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
To the Lighthouse (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia LockwoodA Penguin Vitae EditionThe serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivia ...Show more
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
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Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, an old ...Show more
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Penguin twentieth century classics
When Danny returns to Tortilla Flat in Monterey, California, after the First World War he moves into a small house left to him by his grandfather. One by one, various ne'er-do-wells are drawn to Danny's house - lured in part by the appeal of a rook over their heads, in part by Danny's generosity and the ...Show more