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An Inspector Calls & Other Plays: Time & The Conways; I Have Been Here Before; An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
6.13 USD
15.81 (61% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Previously published as Time and the Conways and Other Plays, J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls and Other Plays collects four groundbreaking works by a master playwright in Penguin Modern Classics. An Inspector Calls, written at a time when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has been pro ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
5.51 USD
12.59 (56% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Also includes: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
5.51 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
Interpreting Dreams by Sigmund Freud
7.96 USD
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights about dreams, Freud was able to revise his method ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5.51 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Memoirs by Tennessee Williams
18.19 USD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When "Memoirs" was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwrig ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Segu by Maryse Conde
5.48 USD
13.99 (60% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"A wondrous novel" (New York Times) from the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature (the New Academy Prize) The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their g ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.38 USD
12.59 (65% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
12.59 USD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Empty Space by Peter Brook
13.99 USD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In "The Empty Space", groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the ri ...Show more