Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio - Essays on China and the World by Peter Zarrow (Editor); Liang Qichao
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Category: Classics
'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evi ...Show more
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler (Translator); Elizabeth Chandler (Translator); Yury Bit-Yunan (Editor)
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Category: Classics
'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and ...Show more
Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)
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Category: Classics
A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens an ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics
Translated by J. A. Underwood with an Introduction by Idris Parry. 'K., he said, had taken the rousing from sleep, the interrogation, and the obligatory threat of explusion from the country with a very bad grace' The Castleis the story of K., the unwanted land surveyor who is never to be admitted to the ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners" by James Joyce. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears...But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Great Ideas) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Katherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. They range from short, sharp studies to longer, richer tales, and 15 unfinished stories published after her death.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 2 | Reading Level: good-very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat; Sassan Tabatabai (Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century A Penguin Classic Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and real ...Show more
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna; Herbert Lomas
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Category: Classics
Vatanen the journalist is feeling burnt out and sick of the city. One summer evening while on assignment his car hits a young hare on a country road. He goes in search of the injured creature. This small incident becomes a life-changing experience for Vatanen as he decides to break free from the world's ...Show more
The Essays, A selection by Michel Montaigne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. "On ...Show more